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STATE OF COLORADO <br />DIVISION OF RECLAMATION, MINING AND SAFETY <br />Department of Natural Resources <br />1373 Sherman St., Room 275 <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />Phone: (303) 9663567 <br />FAX: (303) 832-8106 <br />February 2, 2007 <br />Ms, Juliet Moores <br />Elk Creek Sand and Gravel, LLC <br />P.O. Box 416 <br />Conifer, CO 80433 <br />~Gh ~ <br />RE: Revision Approval, Sha, jj'ers Crossing Quarry, <br />Technical Revision TR~Permit No. M-1978-208 /~ <br />Deaz Ms. Moores: <br />COLORADO <br />DIVISION OF <br />RECLAMATION <br />MINING <br />- rJL-- <br />SAFETY <br />Bill Owens <br />Governor <br />Russell George <br />Executive Director <br />Ronald W. Cottony <br />Division Director <br />Natural Resource Trustee <br />On February 2, 2007 the Division of Reclamation, Mining, and Safety issued a conditional approval of the <br />technical revision application submitted to the Division on January 5, 2007 addressing the following: <br />Change the mine plan to incorporate a stable highwall configuration. <br />The terms of the technical revision TR-03 approved by the Division aze hereby incorporated into Permit <br />No. M-1978-208. The conditions of the Division approval are listed below. Please note that all other <br />provisions of Permit No. M-1978-208 remain in full force and effect. <br />Stipulation No. Description <br />The quarry must be configured with 12 foot benches by 35 foot highwalls, with <br />zones of weathered rock laid back to 1:1, by Apri16, 2007 or the Operator must <br />provide additional bond in the amount of $3.45 per bank cubic yazd for each cubic <br />yard remaining to be removed to establish the stable benches and highwalls. <br />2 The Operator will create a sepazate geotechnical section in each annual reclamation <br />report describing rock discontinuities such as joints exposed by blasting and <br />quarrying during the report yeaz. <br />The approved revegetation plan for the quarry is as follows: <br />a) Seeding, rates based on broadcast seeding: <br />Western Wheatgrass - Arriba 9.6 PLS LBS/ACRE <br />Arizona Fescue -Redondo 1.8 PLS LBS/ACRE <br />Hard Fescue - Duraz 0.8 PLS LBS/ACRE <br />Blue Grama -Covington 0.8 PLS LBS/ACRE <br />Sandberg Bluegrass - VNS 0.6 PLS LBS/ACRE <br />Office of Office of <br />Mined Land Reclamation Active and Inactive Mines <br />