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• <br />• <br />• <br />There are also two graveled roads within the proposed NHN Mine permit area. In the <br />southwestern portion of the site, there is a graveled road, leading to the Garvey brick house and <br />on the Glasier Property there is another graveled road which leads to the existing trailer house as <br />well as a recently removed trailer house. Included within this designation are the surfaces of the <br />county paved roads, the graveled surface of the roads, and those portions of the roads that are <br />devoid of vegetation due to vehicular traffic. <br />The total area of the Roads vegetation type as shown on Map 2.04.10 -1, Permit Area Vegetation <br />Map, is 8.21 acres and this type equals 2.55 percent of the proposed mine permit area. No <br />mining disturbance is proposed for the existing paved and gravel roads, so the only disturbance <br />to this vegetation type will be relative to the two existing ranch roads which occur within the <br />proposed mine area. <br />DISTURBED ROAD RIGHT OF WAY <br />For those areas within the permit area located inside of the fenced right of way, of the existing <br />county roads, there is an area which is disturbed, located from the edge of the road pavement or <br />graveled shoulder to the inflection point where the road cut and fill slopes end. This entire area <br />consists essentially of disturbed soil that has become revegetated through the natural processes of <br />plant succession. The dominant plants growing on this vegetation type are Quackgrass and <br />Smooth Bromegrass. Due to the relative barren conditions of many of these areas, there is a <br />relative high abundance of weedy annuals and noxious weeds growing in these areas. The plant <br />characteristics of this site are similar to that associated with the Dryland Pasture vegetation type <br />described previously. <br />The total area of the Disturbed Road Right of Way vegetation type as shown on Map 2.04.10 -1, <br />Permit Area Vegetation Map, is 7.98 acres and this type equals 2.20 percent of the proposed <br />mine permit area. No mining disturbance is anticipated for the areas corresponding to this <br />vegetation type, since they are largely outside of the existing property fence lines. <br />RECLAIMED SPOIL <br />This vegetation type exists on the older portions of the Navajo Mine located to the north of <br />Tuttle Draw and to the south of Montrose County Road AA. This area corresponds to the <br />proposed mine equipment corridor which will be used to move the mine equipment from the <br />existing NH2 Mine to the NHN Mine area. This area was mined prior to 1973. No topsoil was <br />salvaged and the plant growth medium is mostly regraded spoil. These spoils have been leveled <br />to AOC and area seeded with grasses, forbs and shrubs. Along the extreme northern portion of <br />the equipment corridor subsoil was respread over some of the regraded spoil. On the spoil <br />portions of the proposed mine equipment corridor, the dominant plants are Rubber Rabbitbrush, <br />an invading native shrub, and Fourwing Saltbush, a planted native shrub. In some areas, there <br />Section 2.04.10 Page 19 April 2011 <br />