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URAVAN-BECK PROJECT DRILL SITE P-1 Page 1 of 7 <br />NOTICE OF INTENT TO COMMENCE PROSPECTING <br />APPENDICES To NOI APPLICATION <br />Appendix A <br />Section 1.7. D. <br />The center of the 4.5 ac. drill site was GPS'd by a surveyor. The drill site includes all land <br />within a 250 ft. radius of the center point. All final drill hole locations will be located and <br />recorded using a GPS with sub-meter accuracy prior to drilling to insure they are within the <br />4.5 ac. area. This area has been cleared for Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive (TES) <br />species, and archaeological resources. <br />Section ///. 5. <br />Yellowcake will use Montrose County road R-12 to access the 500 ft. diameter, 4.5 ac. drill <br />site. If any road work is necessary on the county road to allow the drill rig to safely travel to <br />the drill site, a front-end loader will be used to repair only the damaged area. No wholesale <br />road grading will be done, and any spot-grading will be done within the existing county road <br />ROW. No new roads will be required as the drill site abuts the R-12 county road. <br />Once at the 4.5-acre drill site, the truck-mounted, self-contained, small-footprint, air- <br />rotary/hammer drill rig will travel on an designated overland route to the drill hole locations. <br />If any grading is required to get equipment to the drill hole locations, excavated material will <br />be stockpiled on site using a front-end-loader and saved for use in reclamation. <br />At each drill hole location, approximately 6 inches of soil will be salvaged from a 20 ft. <br />diameter area. Total volume of topsoil salvaged from each hole will be approximately 7.4 <br />cubic yards (CY). Soil will be stockpiled on native land to the side of each drill fence in <br />marked stockpiles. <br />The rotary/hammer drill rig will be used to drill 20 exploratory holes - one hole per drill <br />location. No mud pits or water trucks will be needed for drilling. Cuttings will be collected on <br />the stripped area next to the drill rig. <br />When drilling is complete, cuttings will be replaced down-hole, with excess cuttings <br />(estimated at 10% of total cuttings volume) spread thinly across the immediate surface <br />area. This soil will be re-spread to reclaim the drill site as explained in Section IV below. <br />Efforts will be made to avoid locating drill fences where shrubs or trees need to be cut <br />down. However, vegetation that cannot be avoided and is over three ft. tall will be cut down <br />prior to topsoil stripping. The woody material will be stored near the center of drilling activity <br />and hauled to the Montrose County West End Landfill, located two miles west and one mile <br />north of Nucla when the site is reclaimed. <br />No underground workings will be created or disturbed. <br />Section lll. 7. D. <br />Twenty drill holes will be situated in 3- to 7-hole fence patterns of close-order (15-25 ft. <br />separation). The sub-parallel fences may be as close as 50 ft. apart, depending on old drill