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The portal is located on the eastern side of a small ephemeral drainage where runoff from the <br />Burro Canyon capped highlands, located north of the mine, drains to the south into the Long <br />Park area. In this drainage, approximately 2000 feet north of the portal, is a drainage divide <br />where runoff from the highlands will flow north into a separate drainage basin. Surface runoff <br />from the LP -21 mine area flows into small arroyos that drain Long Park to the west before <br />eventually turning north and discharging into the San Miguel River approximately 5 miles <br />upstream from the former town of Uravan, Colorado. <br />4.0 Site Description <br />4.1 Operations structures <br />LP -21 is a designated mining operation. Uranium and vanadium minerals will be mined <br />underground producing ore and waste rock. The ore will temporarily be stored on the surface <br />while awaiting transport to a processing facility. The waste rock may be stored partially on the <br />surface and partially in the mine. At the present time, the site has been reclaimed and includes <br />vegetation that has become well established since the cessation of previous mining. There are no <br />operational structures presently located at the site. <br />Once mining resumes, the waste rock stockpile will be the major feature of the site, extending to <br />the east from the existing pile and against the hillside located to the north. During this time, it <br />is anticipated that additional storage facilities for compressors, generators, maintenance <br />equipment, and supplies, plus a 500- gallon diesel fuel tank with secondary containment, will be <br />installed at the site to support mining activities. These facilities will be located immediately <br />southeast of the waste rock pile. <br />As mining continues, the waste rock pile will expand in a northerly direction with additional <br />waste rock piled on top of the existing pile toward the adjacent hillside to the north. The ore pad <br />will be located apart from the waste rock, southwest of the portal. The area below the waste rock <br />stockpile to the south and across the existing access roadway will contain the runoff retention <br />pond for the site. <br />The existing mine entrance roads that connect to the nearby county road will be used as haul <br />roads to periodically transport ore from the mine. <br />Vegetation <br />4.2 Surrounding Area Characteristics <br />There are three distinct vegetative units immediately surrounding the affected area of LP -21. <br />They are: an open sagebrush park, a strip of sparsely populated pinion juniper and rock outcrop <br />combinations, and a highland area dominated by rock and scattered ponderosa pine and oak <br />brush. Associated secondary species include: <br />Indian ricegrass Fourwing saltbrush Pricklypear <br />ESWMP -2 <br />