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REVISED ---- MINING PLAN <br />a. The topsoil and overburden will be removed from the entire 15 acre area <br />and stockpiled on the west edge of the permit boundary. A condition of the Grand <br />County Special Use Permit requires a berm to be placed on the west side of the <br />area to reduce visual impacts. It is most efficient way for us to build a berm is to <br />use the topsoil and overburden products. <br />b. The resource will be removed and transported to the processing area with <br />front-end loaders. Material processing occurs on-site. As the resource is <br />removed from the active mining area, it is transported to a processing area where it <br />will be screened and crushed. Sized material is then loaded onto trucks for <br />transport off-site. <br />The excavation equipment that will be used at this site consists of front-end <br />loaders, dozers, backhoes, graders, excavators and gravel trucks. Processing <br />equipment at the site consists of jaw, 2 cone crushers and 1 screening plant with <br />related conveyor belt systems to service the crushers, jaws and screen. The <br />applicant would also like the option to include a portable asphalt batch plant/and or <br />portable concrete plant. These would be for specific jobs and would not be located <br />at this site for the life of the permit. The Grand County Special Use Permit allows <br />for both an asphalt batch plant and a concrete plant. <br />C. This is a dry mining operation as groundwater is believed to be <br />approximately 60 feet below the surface. This operation will not expose <br />groundwater during the mining of the site. The draw in the middle of the site does <br />not show signs of encountering groundwater in the permitted area. <br />d. The area of disturbance will be limited to 15 acres for the mining area and <br />4.9 acres for the access road. All stockpiles will also be within these limits. The <br />permitted area contains a natural draw which runs east to west in the approximate <br />center of the 15 acre parcel. Phase 1-A consists of 7.5 acres. Phase I-A will begin <br />on the west one-half of the permitted area by widening the draw to accommodate <br />our crushers and stockpiles. We anticipate having two crushing operations going <br />on both sides of the draw. One crushing operation will be extracting material for <br />the asphalt operation and the other crushing operation will be extracting material <br />for public sale. The material will be extracted and processed by moving in a <br />southeasterly and northeasterly direction. The mining during Phase 1-A will <br />proceed to an approximate depth of 20 feet. In order to accommodate the asphalt <br />Revised 02/04/10