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ER BUILDING MATERIALS IORPORATION <br />WHITE <br />940 South 10th Street, P.O. Box 1769 <br />GRAND JUNCTION, COLORADO 81502 <br />?. <br />SAND & GRAVEL PRODUCTS RECEIVED READY MIXED CONCRETE <br />Phone 242-7537 Phone 242-4843 <br />MAY 1 4 2009 <br />GRAND JUNC-WN FIELD OFFICE <br />DIVISION OF <br />RECLAMATION MINING & SAFETY <br />May 14", 2009 <br />Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining & Safety rEW <br />Western Colorado Regional Office <br />101 South 3rd Street, Room 301 _ MAY 2.6 2009 <br />Grand Junction, Colorado 81501 Di Anion or r ec:wnztiOo 1, <br /> mining and Safety <br />Re: MLR Permit M-77-129, TR-04 <br />Attn: Travis Marshall, <br />Whitewater agrees that our 1981 amendment stated that 12 inches of topsoil <br />would be stripped from each stage and reserved for reclamation. We feel at this time we <br />need to clarify the blanket statement on topsoil made in 1981. This topsoil statement was <br />based on the information we obtained from the drill hole testing of each stage. <br />In actual practice we have found that not all of the area north of the river has a <br />defined 12 inches of "topsoil". For example the current area being stripped is mostly salt <br />flat, with sage brush and salt grass vegetation. This area was not part of the irrigated land <br />and has a high concentration of alkali. In this area the surface strippings were salvaged <br />knowing that we would have to supplement them with fertilizers and/or organic material <br />to make it usable for a seed bed. <br />Whitewater is committed to salvaging enough surface material from each stage to <br />complete seedbed restoration of the above water areas, as described in the reclamation <br />plan. To this end Whitewater will strip and save the quantity of topsoil needed from each <br />stage to accomplish the reclamation in that stage. This topsoil will be stored in the same <br />areas describe in our letter dated April 23 and shown on our map for overburden storage <br />Topsoil will be kept separate from the overburden. The quality of this salvaged material <br />will depend on the upper 12 inches of material available on each stage. Some will be <br />good topsoil and some maybe growth medium that needs supplements. <br />Sincerely, <br />Whitewater Building Materials Corp. <br />Mark A. Gardner, .P.