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(Continued page 3) Exhibit D Amendment No. 002 Mining Plan <br />Man-Made Structures: <br />The Man-made structures that have a "defined, current and recognizable value of an <br />economic nature " on, or within 200 feet of the affected area of Amendment 002, is a <br />boundary fence and a pair of small ditches as shown on Exhibit C-3, both of which <br />belong to the landowners: <br />Nicholas & Ann E. Charchalis (See Exhibits C-1 and C-2). <br />Proposed Methods of Operation Including Equipment: <br />The road-base materials (sand, gravel and clay) will be mined with a D-8 Caterpillar <br />tractor and a rubber-tired tractor with a 5-yard front-end loader. The materials will <br />normally be hauled to the L.J. Crusher with the loader; however, they may also be <br />transported to the crusher by scrapers, belly-dumps, and/or 20 yard end-dump trucks. <br />Surface mining may occur anywhere on the permit area, but we intend to begin in the <br />existing pit area and mine to the south and to the east of the Amendment 001 permit. <br />Road-base materials will be stockpiled in the Pit Area until they are needed, then they <br />will be loaded onto end-dump, and belly-dump trucks for transportation to road <br />construction and repair sites on our highway system. <br />Pit-run construction materials may also be mined with the "D-8" and "loader" and the <br />materials may be transported directly to the maintenance sites by scrapers, belly-dumps, <br />and/or end-dump trucks. Where necessary, short haul roads on the permitted land will be <br />graded and drained with one of Moffat County's Caterpillar motor graders. <br />Twelve inches of topsoil will be stripped and hauled to the inactive portions of <br />Amendment 002 surface area as shown on Exhibit C-4. These topsoil piles will be <br />protected from drainage channels until they are needed for reclamation. Topsoil piles will <br />be protected from contamination by other stored materials. Seeding them with Moffat <br />County's seed-mix formula will stabilize the topsoil piles, and signs will be placed to <br />identify the topsoil, and to caution against removing it. The crushed road-base stockpiles <br />will be identified, protected from erosion, and kept separate from other stockpiled <br />materials. Moffat County will also place signs and stabilize the overburden piles if they <br />are to be stored for more than a year. <br />Where it is practical, we will slope, topsoil and seed the disturbed areas as we go, but <br />experience tells us that our best reclamation performance is to reclaim the pit after it has <br />been mined-out, and the stockpiles and equipment have been removed. <br />Currently, there are 19.58 acres of the original Lyons Pit No. 2 Conversion Permit that <br />are under reclamation now (just west of Amendment No. 001). Moffat County will <br />expand the existing Amendment No. 001 excavation into Amendment 002 for <br />approximately 10 years before we consider beginning reclamation in Amendment No. <br />001. Reclamation most likely will not occur in Amendment No. 002 until the pit has been <br />mined -out, and the stockpiles have been removed (approximately in the Spring of 2029).