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Response: Please find a notarized Exhibit "S"agreement sign by the Excelsior Imgation <br />Company, which state that the operator can relocate the ditch. The actual design of the ditch will <br />have to be done when the construction drawings are done. It will be sized to carry the amount of <br />water that the water storage users will need and that portion of the design is still ongoing. <br />Since the move and reconstruction of the Excelsior Ditch is an operational item and not a <br />reclamation item, the Applicant requests that it be allowed to provide the Division detailed <br />engineering design specifications prior to construction as a Technical Revision. What the <br />Division will have prior to ditch reconstruction is the detailed engineering design specifications. <br />It is the Applicant's risk, post permit issuance, to meet the Division's hydrologic requirements <br />through the Technical Revision process. <br />D) "The Applicant plans to place several buried water line delivery systems as part of the <br />water resources reclamation plan. Please provide the detailed design, and location of these <br />proposed buried pipelines." <br />Response: The approximate locations of the buried waterline delivery system is shown on the <br />Mining Plan Map, with general construction detail shown on the Generalized Concept Plan <br />Reservoir Option 2 Figure 2.0 and 2.1 both drawings are in draft form at this point. The <br />Applicant understands that the need for the Division to require detailed construction designs for <br />the buried waterline delivery system. Again the applicant would provide this during the <br />construction-drawing phase of the project. Exhibit L provides the diameter of steel pipe and <br />linear feet needed, also the number of gated structures. The Generalized Concept Plan Reservoir <br />provides pipe depth and the Reclamation Map shows approximate location <br />E) "It is the understanding of the Division, the maximum area that will be disturbed at any <br />given rime will not exceed 63 acres. Depth of mining will not exceed 40 feet with an average <br />depth being 33 feet. Please verify?" <br />Response: the applicantloperator will start mining in the east pit oh the south end and move to <br />the north in phases the first phase (phase I) is 37.0 acres phase II is next at 55.0 acres, phase III is <br />63.0 acres and the last phase in the east pit (Stage 1) will be lb.o acres. Mining will then move to <br />the west pit starting on the south end of the pit phase V, which is 59.0 acres, next will be phase <br />VI at 50.25 acres and the last phase will be phase VII. The deep of the pit will be from 33 feet <br />deep to 40 feet approximately based upon the drilling logs taken for the construction design <br />portion of this project. <br />F) "...The operator refers in several areas of the application the probable use of dredging... . <br />one assumes dry mining, which method of mining will be implemented..." <br />Response: The operator plans on mining this pit dry by dewatering the pit therefore a discharge <br />permit will be required. No dredging will occur at this mine site. This pit will be dry mining at <br />all times. <br />