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Item #5 h- <br />1) Drill sites will be approximately 75' X 120', or 0.193 acres each plus mud pit for a total <br />of 0.21 acres per location. Topsoil will be salvaged from the drill sites and mud pit <br />locations and stored immediately adjacent to the site. No topsoil salvage will occur along <br />the access route. <br />2) Drill sites will be located on relatively flat areas. An average of approximately 100 CY <br />of material will be moved during drill site construction (1400 CY total). The new access <br />routes were sited to minimize the need for earth moving. Access to most sites will <br />require negligible earthwork. We estimate that access will require a total of about 500 <br />CY of cut and fill. <br />3) Seed rates of pounds per live seed per acre for broadcasting are shown in Section 9.2 of <br />the Federal Coal Exploration License application. This seed mix is based on the mix <br />requested by the BLM for BME's last exploration license. Changes from this proposed <br />mix may be made at the request of the BLM. <br />4) The depths of the proposed drill holes can be found in the table provided above. <br />5) Prior drilling in the area indicated no presence of a groundwater aquifer. Any <br />groundwater encountered was very limited in extent indicating origination from an <br />aquiclude. We do not anticipate encountering an aquifer with the proposed drilling. <br />6) All drill holes will be grout-cemented through coal-bearing strata, with cement extending <br />50 feet above and below the mineable coal bed. The remainder of the hole will be <br />backfilled with cuttings and mud to ten (10) feet or less below the surface. The hole will <br />then be grout-cemented to the original ground surface. A 2 to 3 foot length of tubing will <br />be cemented into the top of each hole extending less than 8" above the surface and will <br />serve as the hole monument. Aluminum or brass caps marked with the hole identification <br />number will be cemented into the top of the hole monument. <br />7) There are no current plans to develop any of these holes as water wells. However, we are <br />considering developing one or more hole into a monitoring well. <br />Item #6. A letter from the Colorado Division of Wildlife specifically addressing this <br />project is attached.