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EXHIBIT D (Mining Plan) <br />1 <br />(a) Moffat County will crush around 15,000 cu /yds of gravel <br />screened to minus 7/8 ") then we will add about 10% clay to it for a <br />road base inventory. If clay can be found in the affected area, we <br />will use it. If not, we will haul clay to the Refuge Pit for that <br />purpose. Trucks will haul the road base materials to the local road <br />construction sites over a four or five year period of time. When the <br />stockpile of road base becomes exhausted we will screen and crush <br />another stockpile of road base materials (See Exhibit C Text, page 2, <br />for our earthmoving and crushing equipment inventory) <br />(b) Moffat County will begin by moving the existing topsoil and <br />overburden piles to the northeast as shown on the original Refuge <br />Pit Exhibit C (Pre- Mining Map). We will then strip 6 to 12 inches of <br />topsoil (and any necessary overburden layers in the original Refuge <br />Pit and in the (Excavation Zone ") then we will store the topsoil and <br />overburden materials separately in areas designated for them on the <br />Exhibit C (Pre- Mining Map). Moffat County will stabilize the <br />topsoil and overburden piles with the Seed Mix Formula identified <br />in Exhibit E -2. We will set -up the crusher in the bottom of the <br />Existing Refuge Pit and feed it with our dozers and front -end <br />loaders. The finished road base products will be stored in the <br />existing pit. The direction of mining from the Refuge Pit into the <br />Excavation Zone will be to the north -north west. The typical <br />thickness of the gravel deposits will be 11 feet, with an estimated 4 <br />feet of overburden. The nature of the stratum immediately beneath <br />the gravel deposit is fine sand lenses at approximately 15 feet in <br />depth and the Brown's Park Conglomerate at 21 feet. <br />(c) There are no live -water creeks or springs in the expanded <br />Excavation Zone, and, based on our exploration holes, Moffat <br />County does not expect to intercept ground water in the mining stage <br />of this development. The project will not intentionally divert <br />stormwater for beneficial use, nor will it affect the "waters of the <br />State of Colorado and the United States." Local waters may settle in <br />the low areas of the excavations, and, if such water collects in a <br />substantial way, or, if it becomes impounded for a substantial period <br />