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Exhibit E RECLAMATION PLAN <br />There are no plans at this time to change the future use of <br />the mined areas. The following amendment to the Reclamation Plan <br />is numbered sequentially for the purposed described in the Mining <br />Plan text. Currently the post mining land use is industr- <br />ial/commercial and the new area will have the same designation. <br />The approved reclamation plans, including slope recoiling, <br />revegetation methods and species, will remain unchanged on the <br />existing permit areas. We will use the revegetation and resoil- <br />ing methods approved in the original conversion and amendment, on <br />the new area. The exception is that the floor in the old area <br />will not be recoiled. Review of the new Reclamation Plan map <br />shows how the entire permit area will be reclaimed. Note: that <br />only the newly added area is colored to avoid confusion in the <br />future when working with this map. In the existing permit area <br />the slopes along the west and north sides were to be graded no <br />more that 2:1 to create more level area. The new area slopes <br />will be graded no more than 2:1 from the existing surface level <br />to the mine floor on the north and east sides. <br />Once mining has moved into the new area we will request a <br />release for a portion of the existing mine area so the landowners <br />can develop it for their needs. <br />AMENDMENT 3 - Recoiling Plan. <br />During the 1993 adequacy review process the County commit- <br />ted to placing 1 inches of soil on the existing mine floor area <br />and up to 4 inches on the slopes. There was no topsoil available <br />at that time on the mined area, but a commitment was made to haul <br />soil in for use in reclamation. <br />The current land owners are using part of the existing mine <br />area to store logs they intend to convert to stove pellets. They <br />have requested that no soil be placed on the old mine floor area <br />since it would only create a muddy mess and is not compatible <br />with their intended final use. Since the existing final reclama- <br />tion is commercial/industrial, recoiling of the floor area would <br />be inconsistent with the end use. See the memorandum of Under- <br />standing between Grand County and Confluence Energy on Page 29. <br />The soils and vegetation on the new area are described in <br />Exhibit I/J(1993) is adequate to cover the new area so the only <br />revision was to add a new Soils Map. Please refer to the previ- <br />ously submitted soils and vegetation information. The soil and <br />overburden cover on the new area is just as sparse as what was <br />encountered in the old permit area. It varies from 0 to 3 inches <br />with very little on the gravel escarpment (south face). We will <br />salvage what growth medium is present to use on the site for <br />revegetation. There is currently a stockpile of growth medium on <br />the existing mine area that is adequate to recoil any newly <br />created slopes with 4± inches. <br />None of the new floor area will be recoiled for the same <br />reasons discussed above. Bedrock is not reached when mining <br />reached the final floor elevation. This means that the floor <br />will have a gravely strata that will be ideal for development and <br />6 <br />