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pounds of available phosphorous fertilizer per acre. As soon as practicable following application <br />of the fertilizer it should be disced into the reapplied topsoil. <br />(b) Seedbed Preparation. Following the reapplication of topsoil onto the regraded overburden <br />sites these areas will be ripped with either a dozer with a ripper bar, a motor grader or a tractor <br />with a chisel plow to eliminate compaction. The depth of ripping will be consistent with the <br />depth of reapplied topsoil to ensure that the quality of topsoil is not diluted by mixing with less <br />desirable subsurface soil materials. As mentioned above, as much as operationally possible all <br />regarding and ripping operations of the respread topsoil will occur as soon as possible following <br />the placement of these topsoil m,,?terials to ensure that none of the volunteer plant materials are <br />damaged once they commence regrowth. Following the completion of the seedbed preparation <br />operations, the sites will be seeded as described below. <br />Seeding will be performed depending on when the ripping and topsoil reapplication operations <br />are completed. Either fall or early spring seeding periods will be utilized. If the seedbed <br />preparation is completed during the summer or fall, then seeding will begin in the fall after fall <br />frosts arrive. If the seedbed preparation is completed during the winter or early spring then spring <br />seedings will be completed when the soil is dry enough to work, yet still somewhat moist. <br />Soil amendments such as supplemental fertilizers will be applied only if soil tests reveal a <br />deficiency for the identified plant nutrients for the plants to be seeded. In the event that tests <br />indicate a nutrient deficiency, then supplemental fertilizers will be applied at the levels <br />recommended by the Colorado State University Soils Testing Laboratory. <br />(c.) Species and Rates of Plar_ts to be Seeded. The basic seed mixture will follow the <br />recommendations contained in the Soils and Vegetation Inventory which follows the <br />recommendations of the USDA-NRCS which they have recommended for numerous other gravel <br />pit reclamation projects in this area. <br />All upland areas above the anticipated high water level of the pond shoreline should be reseeded <br />to with the following seed mixture. <br />Camilletti Milner Pit # 2, <br />Upland Seed Mixture <br />Species Seeding Rate # PLS/acre <br />Smooth Bromegrass 3.5 <br />Regar Meadow Brorti;,- 3.5 <br />Pubescent Wheatgrass 8.0 <br />Western Wheatgrass 6.0