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Mud Creek Pit -Reclamation Permit Application - 112 (C) Exhibits Page 12 of 67 be mined out and rebuilt at the new post-mining elevation in Years 9 and 18. This road improves access to Plant Area B from the entrance, and allows for better and safer traffic flow. This road will be constructed to county standards and will be a permanent road for future use of the landowner. Existing trails and new, temporary trails will be used as necessary to provide access to areas of the property not being mined, as well as access where needed on a seasonal, short-term basis for preparation, emergency access, reclamation, and inspection, and will not be shown. For example, a trail exists to allow access to the bohio (see Map C-2 and S-1); it may be improved for uses other than mining by the owner, and neither its use nor improvement should be considered affected land. SECTION D-6. PROCESSING AND OTHER ACTIVITIES: Portable plants will be brought into the site as required. Oversize materials (cobbles) will either be crushed for aggregate, stockpiled and sold as-is or used as backfill. Clean construction debris (earth, rock, concrete rubble, asphalt pavement) may be brought to the site for processing similar to excavated material for recycling as aggregate or raw material for concrete batch plants and/or asphalt plants, or for use as backfill for reclamation. Such material will be stockpiled until needed. Other than the soil, there is no overburden anticipated to be on the site. The concrete and asphalt plants to operate on site may be either portable or stationary plants; the plant sites (A and B) will remain for the life of the pit. As discussed above, the existing pit area of approximately 3.5 acres will be cleaned up and expanded to a 600 foot x 600 foot (8.3 acres) for permanent use as the primary staging, ready-mix plant, storm water, and stockpile area. Berms along the West and South side of Plant Site A will be used to store approximately 10,000 CY of soil: an estimated 8,000 CY stripped from the plant site and materials from roadway work. The plant site will provide room for a shop and control/break building2, parking, equipment storage, scale, initially a crushing and screening plant (with or without wash capacity), ready-mix plant, storm water retentionfinfiltration basin, and possibly specialty product stockpiles for loadout. This plant site will be used for the life of the pit. As mining proceeds to the north (Years 1 to 6), reclamation of mined areas (See Reclamation Plan) will allow for a water basin to supply washing operations, to be relocated as necessary with each year of mining, and construction of a haul road (Road B) connecting Plant Site A with the working face and Plant Site B. A second plant site, Plant Site B, is designated for future use, for the asphalt plant. Located west of the Year 6 area, on the lower level below the forested valley slope, this would most likely be developed in Year 6 ("Option 1 "). If it is necessary to develop this plant site earlier, it would require constructing the remainder of Road B in one segment, possibly as a temporary alignment, as well as stripping and stockpiling of topsoil from Plant Site B. This is presented as "Option 2° for this plan. Otherwise, Road B will be constructed along the edge of the areas as they are mined and reclaimed (Years 1 to 5). 2 As required, and may be relocated or converted to other use by the landowner in the future. McStone Aggregates, LLC 15 FEB 2008 ©WASTELINE, INC 2008 PN 5006.1-4(009)