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Mining excavation may occur 4 months of the calendar year. Dozer and wheel loader will <br />be used to strip topsoil. Pit run material will be pushed into piles with dozer, and then a <br />wheel loader will be used to feed the power screen to separate materials to be used on <br />roadways. The mined area will be berm off at a 3:1 slope. Stockpiles that will be in place <br />for less than a year will not be revegetated. The stockpiles that will be made will be <br />compacted by the equipment. <br />The entire site will be grade to direct any storm water runoff. <br />The Ansley Pit #2 will be mined to a depth of approximately 15'. The finished mined <br />areas will be used for future stockpile areas. The stockpiles will consist of materials <br />previously processed from this pit. This material is the product that Park County uses to <br />maintain the gravel roads. <br />There is not a plan for storm water as the Ansley Pit #2 will only be 15.2 acres. <br />The nature of the stratum immediately below contains a mixture of different materials <br />that are listed in the Ansley Series report (see attached). <br />Exhibit E-Reclamation Plan <br />This site, Ansley Pit #2, will be reclaimed to rangeland. Land disturbance will begin with <br />removal and stockpiling of the topsoil prior to mining. Topsoil will be used for future <br />reclarnation as a plant growth medium and for back fill for the mined back slope. <br />Additional top soil will be brought in if necessary. <br />Concurrent reclamation will involve removal of the overburden from reserve and <br />immediately placed as berms in the new areas of disturbance. The over burden that is <br />used as a berm will be used as the topsoil when reclamation begins. Permanent seeding <br />and vegetation will follow the top soiling. <br />This site, Ansley Pit #2, is County owed property, but the reclamation will consist of <br />seeding, vegetation shall conform to the surrounding habitat. All slopes will be contoured <br />to a minimum slope of 3:1. Positive drainage will be achieved for all reclaimed land <br />surface area. Seed mixture designed by the US Dept of Agriculture: <br />• Creasled Wheat Grass ----- 1.0 per acre <br />• Blue Grama----------------- .2 per acre <br />• Russian Wildrye------------ 1.0 per acre <br />• Western Wheat Grass----- 4.0 per acre <br />• Yellow Sweet Clover------ .7 per acre <br />The topsoil at the same time of seeding would be disced and the mixture of seed applied. <br />Then seeded areas will have mulch with straw applied. Reseeding will start in the spring <br />of the year. <br />Water demands at Ansley Pit #2 will begin approximately in 2020 and/or start <br />immediately when the mining is complete.