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URAVAN-BECK PROJECT DRILL SITE P-9 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 <br />land within a 250 ft. radius of the center point. All final drill hole locations will be located <br />and recorded using a GPS with sub-meter accuracy prior to drilling to insure they are <br />within the 4.5 ac. area. This area has been cleared for Threatened, Endangered, and <br />Sensitive (TES) species, and archaeological resources. <br />Section 111.5. <br />Yellowcake will access the 500-foot diameter, 4.5 acre drill site located on Figure 1 via <br />the Q-12 Road, which passes through the center of the drill site. If any road work is <br />necessary on the county road to allow the drill rig to safely travel to the drill site, a <br />backhoe will be used to repair only the damaged area. No wholesale road grading will <br />be done, and any spot-grading will be done within the existing county road ROW. <br />Once within the 4.5 acre drill site, existing exploration tracks will be used to minimize <br />disturbance wherever possible. Drill holes will be grouped in 3- to 7-hole fences. The <br />truck-mounted, self-contained, small-footprint, air-rotary/hammer drill rig will travel on a <br />designated overland route to each drill fence. <br />The drill site is flat and contains several old exploration roads, and a large portion of the <br />area is an open field with resilient, non-brittle, sod-forming Galleta. If any grading is <br />required to access the drill fences, excavated material will be stockpiled on site using a <br />backhoe and saved for use in reclamation. Because the Galleta area is resilient to <br />disturbance but slow to establish, if drilling is completed on the grassy area, no topsoil <br />will be stripped and cuttings will be placed directly on the surface. Care will be taken on <br />backfilling not to disturb the sod. <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 <br />7.4 cubic yards (CY). Soil will be stockpiled on native land to the side of each drill fence <br />in marked stockpiles up to 44-52 CY in volume (sized up to roughly 26' long x 18' wide x <br />6' high). <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 <br />on 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. Soil will be re-spread to reclaim the drill site as explained in Section IV below. <br />No trees or shrubs will need to be cut. No underground workings will be disturbed.