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4-59 <br />• 4.7 SOILS INVENTORY <br />4.7.1 Introduction <br />The purpose of this inventory is to satisfy the requirements of <br />the Colorado MLRB for soils information for environmental permit <br />applications for the Munger Canyon Mine. <br />Soils information in the inventory includes refinement of map- <br />ping of disturbed area and areas to be disturbed; character- <br />ization and classification of major soil series; identification <br />of soil sampling sites; chemical and physical analysis of major <br />soil series; evaluation of major soil series for topsoil resources; <br />and present and potential uses of the permit area soils. The <br />• taxonomic families for the principal permit area soils are in- <br />cluded. <br />4.7.2 METHODOLOGY <br />The field work included refinement of R.V. Lord and Associates <br />mapping with emphasis upon the collection of site-specific data. <br />Mapping included field checking on foot with hand augers. The <br />mapping approximates an order I or intensive II level of intensity <br />in areas to be affected, and order III in the remainder of the <br />`~- <br />area. The majority of the soils mapped in the study area are <br />classified to the serieG la~.oi• some are classified only to the <br />sub ro el (see map legend, Figure 4.7-1). <br />• <br />