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INTRODUCTION <br />Western Gravel LLC is leasing land from Sam F. and Virginia Love for the purpose of <br />mining gravel. The pit name will be WRC Gravel Pit. The main entrance to the pit is off <br />Rio Blanco County Road No. 5 near the junction of Colorado State Highway No. 64 and <br />Rio Blanco County Road No. 5, and is approximately 16.8 miles northwest of the Town <br />of Meeker. <br />The access road enters property owned by Donald Valentine (principal in Western <br />Gravel, LLC) and travels southeasterly crossing a portion of property owned by Western <br />Gravel, LLC to an existing ranch road. The road continues across the Donald Valentine <br />property in an easterly direction to Bureau of Land Management land and crosses to land <br />owned by Sam F. and Virginia Love. <br />The office, scales and parking area is located at the entrance and contains 4.28 acres. The <br />westerly pit area is located on a mesa approximately 1.6 miles easterly of Rio Blanco <br />County Road No. 5. The westerly pit area (Phase 1) contains 20.95 acres of which 19.5 <br />acres will be mined. The easterly pit area is located on another mesa approximately 0.9 <br />miles easterly following an existing ranch road. The easterly pit area (Phase 2) contains <br />115.44 acres of which 111.32 acres will be mined. <br />A future bridge and access area containing 42.83 acres lies northeasterly of the easterly <br />pit area and is included for use at a later time if and when a new bridge crossing the <br />White River is built to access Colorado State Highway No. 64. <br />The construction and operation of the gravel pit will involve the use of dozers, loaders, <br />rock trucks, and other heavy equipment in order to remove overburden and gravel. Other <br />equipment that will be located on site during portions of the year will consist of crushers, <br />screening plants, truck scale office, asphalt plant and concrete plant. <br />The westerly pit area (Phase 1) should generate approximately 512,798 tons of gravel and <br />the easterly pit area (Phase 2) should generate approximately 2,341,935 tons of gravel. <br />Phase 1 operations are planned to start in late 2008 and finish in approximately 2 years at <br />approximately 250,000 tons per year. Phase 2 will finish in approximately 9 years at <br />approximately 250,000 tons per year. This equates to an 11 year life span of the permitted <br />area with mining operations completed in 2019, and reclamation completed in 2020. <br />11 <br />