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EXHIBIT D --Mining Plan <br />(a) Description of the method(s) of mining to be employed in each stage of the <br />operation as related to any surface disturbance on affected lands; <br />The affected area consists of an area of 61 total acres including the access road. The <br />site is located within the NE/4 of Section 23 and the NW/4 of Section 24, T12N, <br />R92W. Generally, aggregate materials will be removed off the slope/outcrop between <br />the toe and top of the slope across the small ridgeline as mining progresses from west <br />to east. Mining will expand from the previously mined area at the site. This "already <br />disturbed area" of approximately 2 acres (from the previous un-permitted historical <br />mining at the site) will be used to set-up process equipments and for temporary <br />product stockpiles. <br />Concurrent Reclamation of disturbed "mined" slope areas is planned. Current slope <br />areas have very low vegetation density due to the rocky thin topsoil and or thin cover <br />soils. The ~?reviously mined area has no current vegetation or existing cover/topsoil. <br />The West l/2 of the permit area will be mined for the aggregate materials present <br />expanding out of the "Old Pit". Generally, the East 1/2 of the permit area will be used <br />for a source area for surplus cover and topsoil for some eventual reclamation of the <br />Old Pit" area and slope areas where there is little to no existing cover/topsoils. <br />All areas of the site are currently classified as rangeland and all disturbed areas will <br />be reclaimed to rangeland. No wet-lands, or other water resources will be affected by <br />the site activities. All stormwater will be contained under the site SWMP and general <br />Stormwate;r Permit. Ditching, silt fencing, berms, bales and other site stormwater <br />BMP's wild be used as part of site stormwater controls. <br />The mine <~rea, as shown on the attached map, totals approximately 59.70 acres and <br />generally runs west to east along the ridgeline. The proposed 61 acre Permit Area <br />includes tlrie 1.3 acre area of the approximate 1.1 mile access road crossing the State <br />Lands to the south. Site equipment operations areas will be located, as already stated, <br />in the previous "small disturbed old pit area" located at the toe of the ridge nose and <br />on the top of the ridge where the site access is located at the terminus of the planned <br />road. <br />The area by the gate will be the final reclamation area at the site and will total less <br />than 3 acrf;s. Some of the disturbed original "Old Pit" area will be reclaimed as <br />requested by the landowner. Necessary cover soil for any reclamation of the old pit <br />would necessarily have to come from other areas of the site (the E %2 source area). <br />Any cover/topsoil source areas will have sufficient soil remaining and will be tilled <br />and seeded concurrent with the removal of the soil. <br />Mining activities will begin in both areas and expand across the site to the east and <br />south following the ridge following site road (only a 4x4 trail, currently). The <br />aggregate materials to be mined consist of terrace gravel deposits and eroded <br />sandstone rock following the slope toe above the dry creeks and into and up the slope <br />faces to the ridge-top. Aggregate materials will be removed generally facially off the <br />