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3.6 Main Access Road <br />The Main Access Road has been constructed from Rio Blanco County Road 5 <br />(Piceance Creek Road) to the Piceance Site Processing Facility. The Main Access <br />Road is a 24-foot-wide asphalt concrete road with 4-foot-wide shoulders. <br />Disturbance associated with the construction of this road is approximately 13 <br />acres. The route of the Main Access Road is provided in Figure 1. <br />3.7 Test Mine Facility <br />American Soda's Test Mine Facility, located on the eastern edge of the 0 - 5 <br />year mining panel, was constructed in 1997 as a prospecting operation to both <br />explore and better define the quality and quantity of the nahcolite mineral <br />resource and to refine the vertical cavity solution mining method currently in use <br />in commercial operation. The Test Mine Facility was constructed on one large <br />pad, which measures approximately 13 acres in size. <br />3.8 Additional Disturbance Planned for 2001 - 2002 <br />No additional disturbance is planned for the 2001 - 2002 reporting period as <br />American Soda recently completed construction and start up of the commercial <br />scale Yankee Gulch Project. The solution mining wells and processing facilities <br />currently active will likely provide the nahcolite production required during the <br />2001 - 2002 reporting period and no additional disturbance is proposed at this <br />time. <br />American Soda, L.L.P. 5 <br />OMG Annual Report <br />July 13, 2001 <br />