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Annual Report — Construction Materials Operation <br />Yule Quarry <br />Permit Number M- 1999 -oS8 <br />Colorado Stone Quarries, Inc. <br />August 2013 <br />A. Reclamation accomplished to date: <br />Colorado Stone Quarries, Inc. (CSQ) is under new ownership which began operations in November 2010. <br />During the spring and summer and until the date of this report in August 2013, CSQ has monitored <br />improved water settling areas and found acceptable retention. <br />Sierra Minerals Corporation, owner of the Yule Quarry operations from 1999 to 2004, established a test <br />plot in 2002. The purpose of the test is to determine if it will be feasible to use existing marble fines in <br />place of topsoil from offsite. <br />The test plot demonstrated that the Permit specified grasses will grow and survive over a number of <br />years where the soils are mostly fines. The test plot was covered during construction in fall of 2009. <br />Other grasses and native plants have started growing in many other spots on the property. CSQ will <br />continue all natural vegetation growth. <br />CSQ has continued monitoring the water settling areas, and constructed a new settling pond in our <br />expanded Portal 5 area, as specified by our approved Technical Revision. The Portal 5 expansion was <br />done entirely on previously disturbed areas with sloping of roadways to favor drainage to our settling <br />areas. <br />Reclamation of the old large marble dump is ongoing and continuing as of the date of this report. <br />B. New disturbances anticipated during the upcoming year <br />We anticipate adding less than 10,000 tons of waste material to the existing rubble piles. This should <br />add only a small increase of approximately 40 ft x 100 ft on the SE corner of existing rubble pile. And for <br />the rest of 2013, and 2014, we have expanded our rubble pile starting approximately 200 ft north of the <br />SE corner, working from there along the edge of that pile, making the pile about 20 ft wider. This will <br />handle our refuge blocks for the next 2 years before further expansion in the portal 5 area. <br />C. Reclamation to be performed in the coming year <br />No new reclamation construction is anticipated during the coming year. CSQ will continue to monitor <br />and clean all water retention ponds and monitor vegetated areas. <br />CSQ was notified by Division personnel that they had unused bond money from previous owners that <br />would be used in establishing new growth areas of vegetation that were disturbed by 2010's <br />reclamation construction. This happened in October 2012. <br />