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EXHIBIT 5 <br />meters or 721.9 shrubs per acre. Greasewood was the only shrub encountered in the shrub <br />density transect sampling effort. <br />The locations of the 25 shrub density transects sampled on the Greasewood Predisturbance <br />Area are shown on Map 3, Permit Area Vegetation Map. Examination of the sample adequacy <br />calculations in Table 2.04.10 -2, Loadout Area - Sample Adequacy Calculations, reveals the <br />number of samples required to describe the shrub density on this area at the 90 percent <br />confidence interval was 135.6 transects. <br />INDUSTRIAL <br />Located in the area between the old refinery located on the east side of the site and Reed Wash, <br />is an area corresponding to the Industrial Vegetation type. These areas are almost totally devoid <br />of vegetation and consist of barren refinery sludge or evaporation ponds, or constructed berms <br />or dikes, roads and excavated barrow areas. For all practicable purposes these areas lack a <br />defined vegetation plant community and the only plants which can be found growing on these <br />areas are a few Greasewood plants, Cheatgrass, Purple Mustard and other weedy annual <br />species. There is only very limited vegetation found on these areas <br />The total area of the Industrial vegetation type as shown on Map 3, Permit Area Vegetation <br />Map, is 87.13 acres and this type equals 41.82 percent of the proposed loadout study area and <br />40.5 percent of the permit area. Very limited disturbance, consisting of a proposed railroad <br />loop is proposed for this area. There will be a substantial amount of disturbance planned for <br />this area, but since the exact design is currently unknown. In the pre - consultation meeting held <br />with Mr. Dan Mathews, he acknowledged that this vegetation type actually corresponding more <br />closely to a land use rather than an actual vegetation type and as such it would not be necessary <br />to perform actual vegetation sampling of this area. <br />IRRIGATED WETLAND <br />To the west of Reed Wash and to the east of Loma Drain, downslope of the existing Irrigated <br />Pasture and Cropland areas located to the north of the proposed Loadout Permit Area are <br />several areas dominated by wetland vegetation that appears to exist as a result of extensive <br />flood irrigated practices conducted upslope of the proposed Loadout Permit Area. The total <br />area of the Irrigated Wetland vegetation type as shown on Map 3, Permit Area Vegetation Map, <br />is 19.17 acres and this type equals 9.20 percent of the proposed loadout permit area. Very <br />limited disturbance, consisting of a proposed railroad loop is proposed for this area. The actual <br />amount of disturbance planned for this area is currently unknown, but the disturbance to this <br />vegetation type will certainly be less than 5 percent (10.42 acres) of the proposed Loadout <br />Permit Area. As a result of this very small area, this type would technically correspond to the <br />definition of a minor vegetation type as defined in the CDRMS Vegetation Guideline. <br />In the pre - consultation meeting held with Mr. Dan Mathews, he acknowledged that this <br />10 vegetation type would correspond to a minor vegetation type as defined in the CDRMS <br />9 <br />