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3.5 Well Field Roads <br />Access through the Well Field is provided by the Well Field Access Road that <br />extends from the Main Access Road down to the Test Mine Area below (Figure <br />3). This road was constructed in January and February 2000 and resulted in <br />disturbance of approximately 9.8 acres. Individual well pads are served by <br />narrow one-lane roads. It is estimated that construction of these well pad roads <br />has resulted in the disturbance of approximately 8 additional acres, <br />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 <br />Access Road is a 24-foot-wide asphalt concrete road with 4-foot-wide <br />shoulders. Disturbance associated with the construction of this road is <br />approximately 13 acres. The route of the Main Access Road is provided in <br />Figure 1. <br />3.7 Test Mine Facility <br />American Soda's Test Mine Facility is located on the eastern edge of the 0 - 5 <br />year mining panel, and was constructed in 1997 as a prospecting operation to <br />both 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 operations. The Test Mine Facility was constructed on one large <br />pad, which measures approximately 13 acres in size. <br />3.8 Planned Disturbances for 2004 - 2005 <br />There are no plans to create any new disturbances during 2004 - 2005. <br />American Soda, L.L.P. 5 <br />DMG Annual Report <br />July 12, 2003 <br />