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URAVAN-BECK PROJECT DRILL SITE P-9 Page 3 of 7 <br />NOTICE OF INTENT TO COMMENCE PROSPECTING <br />APPENDICES To NOI APPLICATION <br />APPENDIX B <br />Section I V. 2. <br />A site visit found that vegetation at the drill site is dominated by sod-forming Galleta <br />grass over the western 2/3 of the drill site. The eastern 1/3 is pinyon-juniper woodland <br />slopes with very sparse understory. The photo below is taken approximately 1 mi. south <br />of the site, but is representative of conditions and vegetation at the site. <br />NRCS data from Soil Survey C0675 - Parts of Montrose, Dolores, and San Miguel <br />Counties, 2008 lists the drill site as being in the Bodot, dry Ustic Torriorthents complex, <br />5 to 50 percent slopes (Map <br />Unit 23). Characteristic <br />Ott <br />vegetation for this area includes <br />western wheatgrass <br />(Pascopyrum smithil), Galleta <br />(Hillaria jamesil), blue grama <br />(Bouteloua gracilis), Indian <br />ricegrass (Achnatherum <br />hymenoides), Bottlebrush <br />squirreltail (Elymus elymoides), <br />Saline wildrye (Leymus <br />salinus), winterfat <br />(Krascheninnikovia lanata), <br />Black sage (Artemisia nova), <br />Wyoming big sagebrush <br />(Artemisia tridentata var <br />wyomingensis), Shadscale (Atriplex confertifolia), and Four-wing saltbush (Atriplex <br />canescens). Vegetative production (dry weight) is estimated to be 300 to 600 pounds <br />per acre for Bodot soils (Basin Shale Ecological Site). No productivity or ecological site <br />data are available for the Ustic torriorthents. <br />Section 1V. 3. <br />Topsoils on the Bodot, Dry map unit are cobbly clay loams in the first 3 inches, with <br />cobbly silty clays to about 30 inches, and weathered bedrock below 30 inches. Topsoils <br />on the Ustic Torriorthents are very bouldery clay loams for the first four inches, <br />becoming cobbly clay loams to approximately 31 inches with unweathered bedrock <br />below. Maximum soil salvage will be 3 inches, but cobbly conditions may impede even <br />this. All available soil material will be stripped and stockpiled for reclamation. <br />Assuming soil is salvageable from each drill pad area, maximum soil salvage will be 3.7 <br />CY of soil per hole. No soil will be salvaged from drill holes located on the Galleta grass <br />area. Salvaged soil will be stored in centralized stockpiles next to each drill fence.