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Please see the Custom Soil Report for Huerfano County attached to this supplemental <br />submittal. The topsoil stockpiles will be seeded with western wheatgrass at a rate of 9 <br />PSL per acre. The topsoil stockpiles will be placed separated from other products and <br />salvaged for reclamation use. Please see the Mine Plan Map Exhibit - E sheet 2 of 2 for <br />detail location. The topsoil stockpiles will not be located in any drainage ways nor <br />stream channels. <br />4. The thickness of the overburden is nil due to the proximity of the resource rock to the <br />surface of the soil layer which is only 10 to 20 inches to paralithic bedrock. <br />5. The deposit to be mined is from 8 to 14 feet deep from the existing surface. This is an <br />educated guess since no excavations have been done to establish an accurate depth. <br />6. The access road will be improved and the landowner as asked to have the road remain <br />post mining to be used on the ranch. There will be no underground openings such as <br />adits or shafts. No permanent structures will be established on site the crushing and <br />screening equipment will be portable and not remain post mining. If a truck scale is <br />needed it to will be a portable model. No permanent office structure is planned if one is <br />necessary it will be a trailer use for construction work site and portable. <br />7. There will not be any mine benches, impoundments or stockpiles that will need to be <br />reclaimed after mining the slopes will be 3 horizontal to 1 vertical or flatter post <br />mining. No waste rock is expected to be generated is on this mine site. <br />8. The existing two-truck private drive will be improved with the additional of gravel and <br />shaping of the profile. The road length is 8800 feet of approximately 1.67 miles. The <br />improved road will be shaped to provide the stormwater runoff to be directed to prevent <br />erosion. <br />9. The water used for this mining operation will be for dust control only. No product <br />washing is to take place using water for washing. <br />10. The water for this project will from a legal source it may be purchased for the local <br />providers. If local water is not available Magnesium Chloride will be used in dust and <br />erosion control for this gravel pit. <br />11. The deposit will be processed on site by crushing and screening. Production will not <br />utilize any chemicals. This will be a dry processing of material with a mobile plant set- <br />up operation. No permanent structures are to be constructed for this gravel pit <br />operation. <br />12. The primary commodity will be a road base and the secondary product will be <br />structural fill. The products produced by this gravel mine will be for construction <br />aggregates for use in local projects. <br />13. No incidental products will be created by this operation. <br />14. No explosives will be used in the extraction of processing of the material on this site. <br />6.3.4 EXHIBIT D- RECLAMATION PLAN <br />15. The overburden is minimal and it will be replaced after all the mining has been <br />completed at a depth of from 7" to 11". <br />16. Seeding will take place when the mine is mined out and reclamation is undertaken by <br />replacing the soil and then the seeding will be done as per the NRCS RECLAMATION <br />GUIDELINES.