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EXHIBIT E -- RECLAMATION PLAN <br />Rather than having two slurry-lined water storage reservoirs and a series of groundwater fed ponds, the <br />reclamation plan will include six water storage reservoirs. Each reservoir will be surrounded by a slurry wall and <br />an embankment that will be up to 40 feet tall (refer to the Reclamation Plan Map for details). The slurry wall and <br />embankment will be constructed immediately, before the majority of the site has been mined. The construction <br />process will entail: <br />• Installing the slurry wall. <br />• Stripping topsoil from the mining cell and the project site and stockpiling it around the perimeter of the <br />reservoir. <br />• Removing the overburden with scrapers and placing it on the internal portion of the embankments in 50' <br />to 100' long sections. (Refer to Dam Typical Sections shown on sheet 2 of the Mining Plan Map.) <br />• Excavating sand from the mining cell with scrapers and placing it on the exterior portion of the <br />embankments per the typical sections. <br />• Placing a 12'- 18" thick layer of gravel/cobble on the face of the embankment. <br />• Placing 6" to 12" of topsoil on the exterior embankment and seed and mulch as necessary to establish <br />native grass. <br />Since the slurry wall will be installed before the embankment is constructed, there will need for augmentation <br />plans with the State Engineer. Reclamation after the embankments are constructed will be negligible because <br />the operator will mine at 3:1 slopes and the reservoirs will be available for water storage no matter how much <br />gravel has been removed. In fact, the landowner will likely begin storing water in the reservoirs long before <br />mining has been completed. <br />AMENDMENT TO PERMIT M-2000-158, PLATTE SAND & GRAVEL, LLC; S& H MINE