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3. Mine Facilities and Operation <br />The Gehrman Pit will use the processing facilities currently in place on the Bunn Ranch Pit. <br />Only excavation will take place at the Gehrman Pit. The Bunn Ranch Pit is completing mining of <br />its reserves during the start up of the Gehrman Pit. Raw material will be mined from the <br />Gehrman Pit, transported to the Bunn Ranch processing area, and final products will then be <br />hauled off-site and sold. No processing will take place within the Gehrman Pit. The portions of <br />the Bunn Ranch with processing facilities and offices are being reclaimed as an industrial site, <br />allowing Gehrman to use them when Bunn Ranch is released from its 112 DRMS permit. No <br />night operations are scheduled for this site. Some night time equipment maintenance may take <br />place on the Bunn Ranch site. <br />The lack of processing facilities on site means there will be no fuel or maintenance oil storage. <br />No facilities or structures of any kind will be present on the Gehrman permit area. The only <br />source of potential spills will be the moving equipment working at the Gehrman site. The <br />Division will be notified in case of any such spills on site. The portable mining equipment such <br />as loaders, dozers, trucks and excavators will be serviced on an as-needed basis, but always on <br />the Bunn Ranch site. <br />If water levels in the Ana Branch and the Yampa River become high enough to flood the nit, all <br />mining equipment will be removed until any flood waters subside. The pit will not be isolated <br />from area flooding. <br />Power is available from the Bunn Ranch site. There will be no additional fencing added around <br />the operation, since it is inside a private property and protected by topsoil berms and river <br />branches. No problems with vandalism are expected. <br />The operator commits to clearly marking the permit boundary with stakes surveyed on site. The <br />site will use all existing roads to haul the product to its final destination. A single haul road will <br />be constructed. It is planned that the material may be used to re-surface existing roads, make <br />Gehrman Pit October 09 D-4