2011-07-07_PERMIT FILE - M2011036 (2)

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(e) Also commit to no blasting within 50 feet of any buried utility lines. Moffat County's Blasting Contractor will loosen the surface of the limestone deposit so the fractured material can be pushed directly to the crusher pad with D -8 Cat Dozers. Or the material can be loaded onto trucks with a 980 Cat Loader and hauled to the crusher pad. (See Exhibit C -2 for a plan and equipment inventory) Temporary haul -roads will be planned and developed as needed with the advice and consent of the Colorado State Board of Land Commissioners' Craig Office. There are no live water courses or water rights on the proposed Permitted Land. Moffat County will control stormwater by diverting it away from the natural Channels in the mining and construction areas, and we will develop berms, ditches, and settling basins to manage the sediment and to control erosion. This project will not intentionally divert stormwater for beneficial use, or affect the "Waters of the State of Colorado and of the United States ". Local surface water may settle in the low areas of the excavations, and, if such water collects in a substantial way, or if it becomes impounded for a substantial amount of time, we will notify the State Land Board (Craig Office) and will recommend that they apply to the Colorado Water Court for a water storage right — then put the water to beneficial use. In the event groundwater is exposed, Moffat County will backfill the excavation so as not to expose groundwater until a Well Permit has been obtained for the pit well pursuant to CRS 37- 90-13. Moffat County will comply with all of the NPDES rules from the Water Quality Control Division at the Colorado Department of Health, where necessary. The size of areas to be worked at any one time in the Primary Mining Zone will be 15 acres (see Exhibit C -1). The nature of the stratum immediately beneath the material to be mined will either be sandstone, limestone or shale. Moffat County will crush around 15,000 yards; most of the limestone will be screened to minus 7/8" before adding about 10% clay to it for a road base inventory. If clay can be found on site, we will use it. Otherwise, we will haul clay to the Limestone Pit and mix it there. Moffat County will also crush and stockpile about 500 Cubic yards of minus 4 "limestone, and about 500 cubic yards of minus 25" limestone rip /rap. Trucks will haul the construction materials to local road construction sites over a four or five year period of time before having to blast and crush another inventory of construction materials.