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• EXHIBIT 5 <br />15 July 2010, which was assembled per the provisions of the Colorado Weed Management <br />Act. This site contains three lists of State listed noxious weeds, List A, List B and List C. In <br />this permit application, only the current Mesa County Noxious Weed List will be considered to <br />be noxious weeds for purposes of this report and subsequent revegetation success monitoring of <br />this site. According to this list there are currently, eighteen listed noxious weeds for Mesa <br />County. These species include: Bull thistle, Canada Thistle, Dyer's woad, Hoary cress <br />(Whitetop), Houndstongue, Diffuse Knapweed, Russian Knapweed, Leafy spurge, Musk <br />thistle, Oxeye daisy, Plumeless thistle, Purple loosestrife, Scotch thistle, Tamarisk (Saltcedar), <br />Dalmatian Toadflax, yellow Toadflax, and yellow Starthistle. Of these species, two listed <br />species were observed on this site; Musk thistle and Tamarisk or Saltcedar. <br />RARE AND ENDANGERED PLANT SPECIES. <br />IME was directed not to perform any sampling for Rare and Endangered Plant Species in <br />connection with this sampling program and that this sampling was being performed by another <br />party. <br />RESULTS <br />VEGETATION SAMPLING <br />• A detailed vegetation map of the proposed Unit Train Loadout permit area is presented on Map <br />3 - Permit Area Vegetation Map. This map documents that for the 208.33 acres corresponding <br />to the proposed Unit Train Loadout study area, there are six different vegetation types within <br />this area. These corresponding vegetation types and acreages are as follows: Greasewood - <br />87.32 acres; Industrial - 87.13 acres; Irrigated Wetland - 19.17 acres; Riparian - 10.01 acres; <br />Streams - 4.52 acres and Irrigated Pasture - 0.18 acres. <br />According to the CDRMS Vegetation Guideline, quantitative vegetation sampling is <br />"generally" required only for "major vegetation" types, which are described as "those <br />communities whose total aggregate area occupies less than 5% [10.75 acres] of the 215 acre <br />permit area or less than 10 acres, whichever is smaller." Application of these criteria means <br />that there are only three major plant communities within the proposed Unit Train Loadout <br />permit area. These include, in order of descending area the Greasewood vegetation type <br />containing 87.32 acres, the Industrial vegetation types containing 87.13 acres and the Irrigated <br />Wetland vegetation type containing 19.17 acres. <br />A detailed vegetation map of all of the lands located with one half mile of the proposed Unit <br />Train Loadout is presented on permit application Map 4 - Adjacent Area Vegetation Map. <br />Field Sampling Dates. All of the field data collected in this vegetation sampling effort was <br />collected between 1 June 2010 and 28 June 2010. At the time of the field sampling, all of the <br />plants were actively growing and it is believed that the sampling was performed close to the <br />