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Access to the permit area is via an existing airport maintenance road <br />off Last Dollar Road along the south boundary of the fenced airport <br />area through an existing gate and then following the south perimeter <br />airport road into the processing area. The first one hundred feet of the <br />access road from CR T60 has been asphalt paved. The portion of the <br />road between the paved portion and Gate 7 (on the access road) has <br />been resurfaced with road base. The portion of the road between Gate <br />7 and the processing area will be dirt. These improvements were <br />completed in the spring of 2011. No further improvements are <br />anticipated for the access road. <br />Temporary unimproved on site roads will be constructed to the pit area <br />as needed using native materials. These temporary roads will be <br />removed during reclamation. <br />As processing of the stone progresses, new stockpiles of unsuitable <br />material will be placed and stored inside the South West quadrant of <br />the permit area next to the stored overburden. The unsuitable material <br />and overburden will be first utilized in the mined area as fill and <br />secondly as a continuation of the existing 7:1 grade recently <br />completed from the RSA to the northern border. The unsuitable <br />material would be compacted in 2 foot lifts as required by the San <br />Miguel County Special Use Permit. Stored topsoil would be placed on <br />the surface of this graded material and seeded for erosion and <br />reclamation. <br />Equipment and facilities to be used and stored inside the permit <br />area include: hydraulic splitters, rotary tumbler, temporary gas and <br />diesel tanks, packaging materials, forklifts, small excavators and <br />loaders. <br />Hydraulic splitters are used to size larger pieces of stone before the <br />stone is palletized for shipment. The rotary tumbler is used to create a <br />weathered appearance on the stone. No chemicals are used in the <br />tumbling of the stone. Packaging materials include wooden pallets, <br />plastic and wire to secure the stone to the pallets. Forklifts move the <br />pallets of stone and Toad the trucks for shipment. Small excavators <br />and loaders move the stone and make it accessible both for hand <br />sorting and machine splitting. The location of these facilities are shown <br />on revised Exhibit C. These facilities may be moved as required. <br />Palletized stone will be stored within the permit area, near the middle <br />of the northern permit boundary, behind a berm. <br />Landscape boulders were sorted and placed separately by the owner <br />(TRAA) into stockpiles in 2011 shown on Exhibit C. It is anticipated <br />