PERMIT FILE - 8/5/2008, 3:12:32 PM-SW1

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• Homeland Uranium, Inc. would coordinate project activities with appropriate fire- fighting personnel in the BLM. Hazardous and Solid Waste/l'rash Disposal • Fuel and lubricants would be temporarily stored in transportable containment trucks and trailers to minimize potential for accidental releases/spills. No other hazardous or potentially hazardous materials would be brought into the project area. • All spills or leaks of diesel fuel, hydraulic fluid, lubricating oil, and coolant, including contaminated soil material, would be excavated to an appropriate container and transported to an approved disposal site. • All solid waste or trash would be transported for disposal to an approved solid waste disposal facility (most likely the San Juan County sanitary landfill west of LaSal). Public/Crew Safety • Vehicle traffic would be limited to existing roads and travel routes. Vehicles would travel at speeds within set speed limits of main access roads and at slower speeds appropriate for conditions on more remote roads and trails: Crew would minimize vehicle traffic in and out of the project area by carpooling from surrounding towns. • A sign warning the public of project related activity would be located at the closest road/travel routes intersections on either side of the next day's planned drilling. Water Resources, Wetland/Riparian/Floodplain Protection • Should saturated conditions or water in a drilled hole be encountered, native bentoni#e would be packed into the hole to above the water level in the hole to seal the saturated zone. • Project water would be obtained from adjudicated sources. • No drill holes would be drilled within 330 feet of perennial surface water features. • No operations would be performed within 150 feet of a spring and no wetland/riparian vegetation would be removed. • Vehicles would not cross perennial water features, except on existing roads or pre- designated crossings. Soil Resource Protection • Vehicles would be restricted to existing roads and travel routes. • No vehicles would be operated during periods of saturated soil conditions when surface ruts greater than 4 inches would occur along straight travel routes. • Drilling traffic would be planned to minimize the number of passes over the same ground, and to minimize the potential for soil compaction and for impacts to biological soil crusts.