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URAVAN-BECK PROJECT DRILL SITE P-2 Page 1 of 6 <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 111.5. <br />Yellowcake will use the Geyser Pass Road to access the 500-foot diameter, 4.5 acre drill <br />site located on Figure 1. If any road work is necessary on the county road to safely travel to <br />the drill site, a backhoe will be used to repair only the damaged area. No wholesale road <br />grading will be done, and any spot-grading will be done within the existing county road <br />ROW. <br />Up to 570 ft. of road may be bladed to allow access to the drill site, which is located just <br />east of the Geyser Pass county road. Most of the drill site is on a shelf above this road. This <br />area is not accessible from the county road through the drill site, thus a separate access <br />route, using a pre-existing, un-mapped two-track, will be used to access the upper shelf. It <br />is anticipated that little to no cutting or filling will be required on the access route. The surety <br />calculations include replacing 6 in. of soil material over the entire access road to allow for <br />minimal road work. Wherever topsoil is removed, it will to be pushed into a windrow to one <br />side of the excavated area for use in reclamation. <br />Once within the 4.5 acre drill site, existing exploration tracks will be used to minimize <br />disturbance wherever possible. The truck-mounted, self-contained, small-footprint, air- <br />rotary/hammer drill rig will travel on a designated overland route to the three drill fence <br />locations. Once again, if any grading is required to access the drill hole locations, excavated <br />material will be stockpiled on site using a backhoe and saved for use in reclamation. <br />Drill holes will be grouped in 3- to 7-hole fences. At each drill hole location, approximately 6 <br />inches of soil will be salvaged from a 20 ft. diameter area. Total volume of topsoil salvaged <br />from each hole will be approximately 7.4 cubic yards (CY). Soil will be stockpiled on native <br />land to the side of each drill fence in 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 that is over three ft. tall will be cut down