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WATANABE: Yes, Rene’. <br />SIRACUSA: In order to renaturalize the area afterwards, you have to know where you <br />started from. Do you have -, have you taken pictures and done studies and things like that to <br />establish a baseline, so when the time comes, you know what you are going back to? <br />BALOG: There’re photographs of the area. There’s been a metes and bounds <br />survey. Basically the renaturalization would be making sure that we put proper slopes in that <br />people could traverse; or in this case, since it’s pasture land, the animals could get up and down <br />without breaking legs, or when the ranchers would go out and have to move around, it wouldn’t <br />be hazardous. That’s all currently happening on the property. There’re no fences around the <br />mine itself. When Parker Ranch has cattle in the area, we don’t have any fences up; so they are <br />amongst our operation as we operate now. So what we are going to have to do is slope the <br />ground back to a slope that’s acceptable, and make sure that the grass grows back. We won’t <br />have the exact -, whatever we excavate out, we’re not going to have put back; but we’ll have an <br />area that will be vegetated. <br />SIRACUSA: So basically the vegetation that would be replaced would be grass for <br />pasture. Is that correct? <br />BALOG: That’s correct -. <br />SIRACUSA: Thank you. <br />BALOG: And that’s what the surrounding area is now. <br />WATANABE: Thank you. Do we have any further questions for the applicant? <br />RHO: I do. <br />WATANABE: Yes, Mr. Rho. <br />RHO: You know, in Condition 6 in the background report, it talks about having a <br />plan one year prior to the termination of the operation. And I wondered whether or not a plan <br />was developed a year ago or a year prior to 2007. <br />BALOG: No, there was no plan developed because prior to 2007 from 2000 – <br />probably the year 2000, maybe even before that – a half way through the permit we already knew <br />we needed to get an extension. So the thought of exiting the quarry operation was never planned <br />to exit. So when we get there, we’ll definitely have the plan ready and it’ll be submitted on time <br />properly. <br />WATANABE: Any follow-up? No? Any further questions? Mr. Woodward. <br />WOODWARD: Well, if it’s appropriate, I’d like to make a motion that -. <br />WATANABE: Oh, okay. <br />EXHIBIT A <br />4 <br /> <br />