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Radiation Monitoring Plan for J-Birds Uranium Mine Project <br />Bluerock Energy Corp. <br />Bluerock Energy Corp (BEC) has designed this radiation Monitoring Plan for the J-Birds <br />Mine to: 1) provide pre-disturbance, background gamma radiation data for the permitted <br />mine site, including any future modification area and 2) to outline an annual monitoring <br />plan and procedure to monitor gamma radiation levels on the permitted mine property. To <br />accomplish this monitoring, BEC proposes the following: <br />1. Using geographic information systems (GIS) by ESRI ArcMap, lay out a 100-ft <br />x100-ft grid based on established UTM grid laid over the permitted property <br />boundary (Figure 1). <br />2. Figure 1 and all global positioning system (GPS) data will be in NAD 83, UTM <br />Zone 12 N <br />3. Identify GPS coordinates of all intersections of grid lines in the vicinity of the <br />permitted property. These 49 grid-intersection target points will be used as the <br />permanent target measurement points for radiation measurements throughout the <br />life of the mining project and reclamation effort (Figure 1). <br />4. The GPS unit used to locate the grid-intersection target points will have a 3-meter <br />or less margin of error. <br />a. The location points for the initial monitoring survey, conducted on <br />November, 13, 2007, are shown on Figure 1 as "On Ground Radiation <br />Monitoring". The location of each monitoring point was based on a 100-ft <br />grid that was arbitrarily positioned to begin at the SE corner of the property. <br />However, in retrospect, we realized that a 100-ft grid based on the actual <br />location of the standard UTM grid, rather than beginning at an arbitrary <br />point, could be reliably reproduced and matched year after year to easily <br />locate the same monitoring points. As can be seen on Figure 1, the <br />monitoring points from the November 2007 monitoring event are offset <br />about 20 to 25 feet SE from the new UTM-based grid-intersection target <br />points. Subsequent monitoring events will target the new UTM-based <br />points. <br />b. As shown on Figure 1, the corrected mine permit boundary extends further <br />to the north than the boundary on which the original radiation monitoring <br />event was based. Therefore, six additional grid-intersection target points <br />will be added to the monitoring plan and will be measured November or <br />December 2007, prior to the property being disturbed. <br />5. Conduct agamma-ray-monitoring survey at the 49 established grid-intersection <br />target points using the following procedure: <br />a. Find each grid-intersection target point using the pre-determined GPS <br />coordinates <br />b. Record gamma ray reading and GPS point location for each target point. <br />6. Plot the resultant data on GIS-based property map and in an associated data table <br />and submit to the BLM Montrose, Colorado office in .pdf format and/or other <br />format, if so specified. Include a report relating the measured radiation <br />