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Plaisted Companies, Inc. (East Pit) Plaisted Companies wishes to re-open the gravel mine formerly known as Elk River Gravel. We are requesting a conditional use permit very similar to the previous expired permit. • Hours of operation will be 7-7 Monday—Saturday. • We plan on hiring 2-5 additional employees to operate the mine. • Parking will be at the maintenance building on the hill where we will maintain and store our equipment/loaders. • As needed we will screen any mining from public using soil berms and/or evergreen trees. • The proposed signage will be to utilize the existing signage at 217th Ave. Currently there are 2 8x8 signs visible by north and southbound traffic. • Storage of equipment will be in and around the maintenance facility and at the floor of the mine. All maintenance and repairs will be done in the maintenance shop and all oils, supplies and parts will be stored indoors with secondary containment. • We would use the existing utilities. • We have an easement with property owners to access Hwy 169 by the ERX south entrance. It is our intent to clean-up the property and level all miscellaneous unused piles and holes. We pride ourselves in operating a neat and orderly pit as we have demonstrated at our other location. At the floor of the pit we propose to mine the black dirt from the site first. Then mine up to 50' into the water to excavate the gravel. We propose to eventually add a wash plant and any crushing would be hired out for a few weeks a year. Although there are no current plans we would request to be able to compost yard waste on the western or high portion of the property. Wetland Delineation is being prepared by Anderson Engineering. Wetland Mitigation would be done as project is completed. EAW has been completed for J& B Mining and has not expired,the last activity was in 2010 work will be continuing as permitted.