2011-10-31_REVISION - M1976009HR (7)

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Exhibit E (Amended 2011) Reclamation Plan Reclamation Plan for Corrective Action Amendment Area Introduction and Overview: This reclamation plan includes only the corrective action area for the rock spill on the east edge of the quarry. It makes no alterations to the reclamation plan for the rest of the quarry. This plan is based upon the existing, permitted reclamation plan. Because the reclamation work was completed over a month before this amendment was submitted, for the most part, this plan describes what was done rather than what will be done. Proceeding with corrective action was granted in June 2011 and was completed in early August 2011. This plan addresses the overshoot of the affected land boundary (6,762 square feet) as well as the adjacent land within the original affected land boundary that was disturbed, as needed, to repair the damages outside the original affected land boundary. Because all but about 1,500 square feet of the 6,762 square feet is stream channel, not much reclamation is actually needed. Damage to that non- stream channel land was light with most of the reclamation activity in the corrective action involving only picking up the spilled rock from within the stream channel and on the bank. Final Land Uses The final land use for this area is wildlife habitat. This is consistent with surrounding land uses and the final land use for the quarry itself. Mining and Reclamation Coordination As stated in the Mining Plan (Exhibit D) there was no actual mining in this area. All activity beyond the Mining Limit established in the permitted plan was actually reclamation and rehabilitation work. Actual mining stopped at the Mining Limit. That said, in the course of rehabilitating the disturbances some rock was acquired that was turned into product. In that sense, mining did occur, but wasting the material removed in the rehabilitation work would have been a waste of resource. A good deal of the rock that was acquired was not supposed to have been spilled over the side anyway. In that sense, the rehabilitation involved recovery of rock that was intended to go to product anyway, if it had not inadvertently been spilled over the side by erroneous dozer work. The excavation of the old meander, described in the Mining Plan (Exhibit D) generated very little product as much of that rock was small, weathered rocks mixed with large amounts of fine material that had come down in the old landslide or accumulated over the last couple hundred years in the landslide rubble. Menzer Quarry Corrective Action Amendment Exhibit E October 2011 Page 1