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URAVAN-BECK PROJECT DRILL SITE P-8 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 <br />Galleta situated in a large bowl, bordered by a ring of wheatgrasses and <br />snakeweed, which is surrounded by rocky, pinyon-juniper covered slopes with <br />sparse understory at the edge of the drill site. Old exploration trails traverse the <br />hill slope area and assessment excavations dot the grassy bowl. A photo of the <br />site to the right shows <br />the site, looking north. <br />NRCS data from Soil <br />Survey C0675 - Parts of <br />Montrose, Dolores, and <br />San Miguel Counties,'??'' <br />• h i <br />2008 lists the drill site as <br />being in the Bodot, dry <br />Ustic Torriorthents <br />complex, 5 to 50 percent ? , ? ?- '., ?.?_ ?" •- ' <br />slopes (Map Unit 23). <br />Characteristic vegetation s • ,. - r .:, ?.? -?;? ? _?r? ?:?? <br />for this area includes <br />Western wheatgrass <br />(Pascopyrum smithii), <br />Galleta (Hillaria jamesii), <br />Blue grama (Bouteloua gracilis), Indian ricegrass (Achnatherum hymenoides), <br />Bottlebrush squirreltail (Elymus elymoides), Saline wildrye (Leymus salinus) , <br />Winterfat (Krascheninnikovia lanata), Black sage (Artemisia nova), Wyoming big <br />sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata var. wyomingensis), Shadscale (Atriplex <br />confertifolia), and Four-wing saltbush (Atriplex canescens). Vegetative production <br />(dry weight) is estimated to be 300 to 600 pounds per acre for Bodot soils (Basin <br />Shale Ecological Site). No productivity or ecological site data are available for the <br />Ustic torriorthents. <br />Section IV. 3. <br />Topsoils on the Bodot, Dry map unit are cobbly clay loams in the first 3 inches, <br />with cobbly silty clays to about 30 inches and weathered bedrock below 30 <br />inches. Topsoils on the Ustic Torriorthents are very bouldery clay loams for the <br />first four inches, becoming cobbly clay loams to approximately 31 inches with <br />unweathered bedrock below. Maximum soil salvage will be 3 inches, but cobbly <br />conditions may impede even this. All available soil material will be stripped and <br />stockpiled for reclamation.