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2.05.5 Post-M1ninK Land Use <br />. Upon completion of mining <br />buildings, conveyors, etc., Hill be <br />All areas of disturbance on private <br />debris, graded and revegetated, acc <br />regulations to post-mining land use <br />and recreation. <br />activities, sll equipment, <br />removed from the landscape. <br />lands Hill be cleaned of <br />ording to existing rules and <br />of Hildlife habitat, grazing <br />The truck scale area along State HighHay 133 Hill be <br />cleared of sll equipment, buildings, scales, bins, etc. The area <br />Hill then be contoured. This area previousl}• had a post-mining <br />land use of Hildlife habitat, grazing and recreation even though <br />it is basically a borroH area next to a state highHay. The State <br />HighHay Department plans to purchase the truck scale area and <br />construct an upgraded highHay through the area beginning in 1989. <br />The post-mining land use for the truck scale area is therefore <br />changed to industrial or commercial. The truck scale area has <br />been deleted from the Permit Area. For this reason reference to <br />it has been removed from the maps exhibits and the text of the <br />permit. <br />The steepness of the slopes Hhere the portal bench noH <br />exists Hould eliminate any farming or related activities. No <br />economic timber is located at the Blue Ribbon Mine. The oak <br />brush vegetation type that existed prior to mining is classified <br />by SCS as a brushy loam range site Hith normal forage production <br />of 2,000 lb/acre dry Height. The fluvial sediments in Hubbard <br />Creek Valley have never supported crops of any type, including <br />hay. A historical farming record is nonexistent. During a sur- <br />vey by the SCS (October, 1976), these areas Here not broken out <br />as a separate range site due to extreme variability of the sedi- <br />ments. <br />• lli (Revised 3-16-89) <br />