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FACE="Arial" ><B> PHC-Reclamation, Inc.</B></FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>                         </B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=400 width="100%" colspan=2 BGCOLOR="#FFFBF0" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>About PHC-REC:</B></FONT><B> <A NAME="top_1_1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>   </B></div> <div> <B>THE COMPANY</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>PHC Reclamation, Inc. (PHC-REC)</B> is a professional engineering firm who specializes in mining, environmental and reclamation consulting services.  PHC-REC's services provide cost-effective, biologically and engineering based solutions for land reclamation and revegetation projects.  As the recognized leader in the use of mycorrhizal fungi, PHC-REC utilizes their expertise for the successful establishment of vegetation on lands distressed by earthwork activities, such as mining and construction work, and by natural processes, such as extreme climatic and geographic location conditions found in arid and semi-arid regions.  Over the past 20 years, our team of professionals have dedicated much of their work to the investigation, inventory, engineering, design, construction management and revegetation of mine land reclamation projects. </div> <bR> <div> Our company size allows for our key personnel to take a direct technical role on projects, which insures consistent, responsive and professional service to our clients at competitive costs. The following key team professionals will be utilized in providing PHC-REC's services.      </div> <bR> <div> <B>PHC-REC KEY PERSONNEL  </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00a800c800000001.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Mr. Chris Walla, P.E., President.  </B>Mr. Walla has provided management, consulting, investigation, design and construction management services for numerous reclamation projects throughout the United States.  Three (3) of these projects received national awards for achievement from the U.S. Department of the Interior, Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement Division and one project received the Wyoming Engineering Society President's Project of the Year Award.  Mr. Walla has designed the closure of over 1,300 underground mine adit, shaft, and subsidence openings and has extensive knowledge and experience in surface mine reclamation. He has played large roles in the development of environmental assessments, mining and geotechnical engineering analysis, riparian habitat design and construction, and Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plans.  Mr. Walla has written and prepared over 200 different sets of contract documents and specifications for restoration and mine land reclamation projects.   </div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00a800c800000001.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Mr. Daniel Adams, C.P.G., Senior Project Manager, </B>has designed, coordinated and managed environmental and mine reclamation projects over the past 15 years.  With more than 25 years in mining, exploration, reclamation, and project management, Mr. Adams has extensive experience and practical knowledge in geology, permitting, environmental compliance, hydrology, budgeting, planning, construction management, and revegetation.  As Site Manager, Mr. Adams was responsible for all reclamation and closure planning for the $12 million Basin Creek Mine Project. Responsibilities included conceptual engineering and hydrological designs, cost estimation, bid solicitation and contractual agreements, and construction oversight.  Mr. Adams has experience in all phases of mining projects including exploration, sustainable development, production, reclamation and closure.</div> <bR> <div>   </div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00a800c800000001.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Mr. Joe Alexis, P.E., Project Mining/Metallurgical Engineer, </B>has ten years experience in environmental remediation of mined lands and government installations that produced hazardous chemical materials and nuclear waste.  He also has an additional twenty years of involvement in coal and mineral processing, including separation techniques and equipment related to froth flotation, magnetic separation, electro-static separation and gravity concentration.  Mr. Alexis oversaw the construction and operation of coal and mineral pilot plants in the countries of South Africa, Canada, Madagascar and the U.S.   He also designed and assisted in the construction and operation of a dredging and coal preparation facility for the recovery of fine coal from abandoned slurry ponds located in the Central U.S.</div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00a800c800000001.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Dr. Donald Marx, Chief Scientist</B>, is a world renown authority on mycorrhizal fungi and their practical application.  His is the 1991 recipient of the prestigious Marcus Wallenberg Prize awarded by the King of Sweden (considered the Nobel Prize in Forestry) for his international work on mycorrhizae for improved tree establishment on degraded land with the USDA Forest Service.  For the past 40 years, Dr. Marx has pioneered the practical use of mycorrhizal fungi on native trees, forbs and grasses to solve problems in the reclamation/reforestation of mined land and other degraded sites. He has conducted field research in cooperation with several state AML programs, federal agencies and private mining companies to revegetate adverse sites, such as mined-lands, pollution-damaged sites like Copper Basin, Tennessee, borrow pits and other severely eroded sites. <I><B> </B></I>Dr. Marx's scientific and practical experience on the natural approach to reclamation programs is now available to PHC-REC clients.</div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00a800c800000001.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Dr. Scott Kenner, Ph.D., P.E., Senior Hydrologist/Engineer </B></div> <div> Dr. Kenner has extensive experience in geomorphology and hydrology studies, sedimentation and erosion features and designs, surface mining and mine land reclamation design, and drainage and flood control designs.  Regarding Surface Mining, Dr. Kenner designed a determination of hydraulic consequences of haul road, sedimentation ponds, and a diversion channel in Florence, CO. For the office of Surface Mining, he designed a manual for the control of surface runoff through sedimentation ponds in the Navajo Mine located in Farmington, NM.  His experience also includes an analysis and preliminary design of erosion and scour protection for the Redlands Parkway Bridge, Grand Junction, Co.  He's also done analysis in erosion protection, sedimentation, and hydraulics in Phoenix and Tucson, AZ. as well as in Alamo WA.  Regarding Flood and Drainage control, he was in charge of flood insurance studies for the Arkansas River in Basin, CO. as well as completing a preliminary design and analysis of flood control and drainage improvements in Lafayette, CO.  Dr. Kenner was responsible for designing a master plan for storm drainage in Upper Westerly Creek in Aurora, CO.  Dr. Kenner is associated with numerous professional affiliations including the American Society of Engineers, the Water Environment Federation, the American Water Resources Association, the American Geophysical Union, and the National Society of Professional Engineers.  He has been recognized for his numerous publications for the US Office of Surface Mining, the South Dakota Department of Environmental and Natural Resources, the Florida Department of Transportation, and the University of Florida, Gainesville.  Dr. Kenner is incredibly qualified for any type of analysis and design for PHC-REC clients and is a prominent figure in our reports, reviews, and evaluations.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >  </FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00a800c800000001.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Mr. Brenton Leavitt, EIT., </B>Mr. Leavitt has been involved in the construction industry for over 15 years and has extensive experience with engineering, design, and calculation of surface water hydrology, fluid mechanics, and water resource problems.  He has built, restored, remodeled, and stabilized many commercial and residential buildings.  He has been responsible for reproducing and installing historically accurate windows, doors, logs and timbers, and other architectural millwork.  He has designed and constructed alley ways, loading chutes, working corrals, and miles of fence.  In recent years, Mr. Leavitt was also responsible for all construction tasks related to the placement of a five-mile long water pipeline and installation of an associated water tank supply system on a private ranch located in Big Horn Basin, Wyoming.  All of the projects Mr. Leavitt has been involved with have been on time and under budget. Projects included the construction, rehabilitation and improvement of numerous buildings (hotels, cabins, campgrounds and dormitories) located on nine (9) separate properties within Yellowstone National Park.  Responsibilities included peer review of plans and specifications, maintaining and remodeling of all buildings leased to the concessionaire, inspection of work performed, photo documentation, and preparation of detailed project reports for the National Park Service.  Some of the buildings included Old Faithful Inn, Lake Hotel and Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel.  He has been involved with many pipeline, erosion control, agricultural ditches, and responsible for all aspects of the rehabilitation of historic buildings and cabins including carpentry in the Bighorn Basin.  Construction site de-watering in Cheyenne and Yellowstone National Park.  Consulting on gas line easements, water storage, road development, placement of Coal Bed Methane (CBM) wells, plugging of water monitor wells, and research related to cost of re-injecting the excess CBM water in Campbell County Wyoming.  Multiple storm sewer, sewer, water pipeline, removed and replaced fire hydrants, installed and maintained man holes and catch basins, and utility construction projects in El Paso County, Colorado.</div> <div>  </div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00a800c800000001.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Mr. James Kralic, Reclamation/Construction; </B> Mr. Kralic has extensive experience in the construction, operation, maintenance, and reclamation of mine sites.  With over 15 years of "hands on" applications at mining and construction sites.  For the last 11 years Mr. Kralic has performed primarily reclamation and mine closure jobs.  His skills involve manpower management, production schedules, compliance tasks, field work with people and equipment. He has also performed the following duties including but not limited to Small Mine Closures; Polyurethane closures; Operation and Maintenance of process solutions and Stormwater Control Systems; Water, Air, and Soil Monitoring, as well as Fabrication.  Mr. Kralic's knowledge is recognized in his performance as an Equipment Operator within all aspects of Reclamation and Construction including Historic Building Restoration, Steambed and Streambank Restoration.  Mr. Kralic's experience also consists of First Aid, Hazmat, and MSHA training, which would incorporate being First Responder trained.  Mr. Kralic is an integral member of the reclamation team.</div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00a800c800000001.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Ms. Deb Trefren -  Miller, Engineering Technician, </B>Ms.Trefren-Miller has over 10 years experience with GIS and database management with the United States Geological Services and with PHC Reclamation, Inc.  She received her Engineering Technician Degree in 2005 focusing on AutoCAD applications.  She has extensive experience utilizing AutoCAD and GIS to assist in the design of site plans, vicinity maps, cross-sections, and site permit maps.  Ms. Trefren-Miller is also experienced in consents and clearances, eligibility reviews, inventory listings, and the specifications and drawings for new and proposed reclamation sites.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <bR> <div>      </div> <div> <B>MINE LAND RECLAMATION EXPERTISE</B></div> <bR> <div> PHC-REC has gained extensive reclamation experience throughout the last 20 or more years.  This experience was developed by building a good working relationship with the mining and construction industry, state and federal government entities, and with private citizens.  PHC-REC's professional staff has provided services for numerous reclamation projects throughout the United States.  Each one of these projects was unique, due to the variety of environmental and public safety hazards encountered at each site.  For every one of these sites, PHC-REC personnel provided supervisory or technical support during the reclamation grading, seeding and agronomic activities.  PHC-REC has received two (2) national awards for achievement by the United States Department of Interior-Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement and three (3) reclamation awards from the State of Utah.       </div> <bR> <div> <B>HORTICULTURAL EXPERTISE</B></div> <bR> <div> PHC-REC's team of microbial plant and soil scientists have been on the leading edge of developing economical and technologically efficient methods of addressing vegetation re-establishment for disturbed lands and the stabilization of ecosystems in harsh or extreme environments.  Our understanding and experience with lands having high amounts of sodium within the soils (salinity), soils with acid-producing potential, irrigation techniques as it relates to sustaining viable ecosystems, will be a significant asset for AML reclamation projects.  This research and development has lead to the commercial production of mycorrhizal fungi inoculants in pellet and liquid forms, bacteria, as well as other horticultural products.    </div> <bR> <div> <B>PROJECT EXAMPLES</B></div> <bR> <div> The PHC-REC staff consists of mining, civil and environmental engineers, geologists, biologists and technical support personnel.  The following is a brief summary of our various clients and the associated project tasks.    </div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00a800c800000001.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">OHIO ABANDONED MINE LAND PROGRAM</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300d800c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Since 1982, professionals with PHC-REC have been involved with the reclamation and reforestation of over 3,000 acres of abandoned mine sites in southern Ohio.  The hazards mitigated on these sites included GOB piles, off-site erosion and degradation, bench slopes, highwalls, and highly acidic soils (pH of 2.9 to 3.4).  Reforestation of the sites included the planting of approximately five (5) million seedlings inoculated with Pisolithus tinctorius (Pt) ectomycorrhizal fungi.   </div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300d800c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">PHC-REC Project Responsibility: $100,000.00</div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00a800c800000001.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">KENNECOTT UTAH COPPER CORPORATION</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300d800c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Since 1994, PHC-REC has provided reclamation services of more than 6,000 acres of land disturbed by mining.  Areas specifically addressed and mitigated included sites with extensive erosion, sedimentation of drainage's, production of acidic water, and extreme dust conditions. Waste dump slopes were typically 1.5H : 1.0V or steeper with little to no suitable topsoil available.  PHC-REC utilized a natural soil system solution to establish vegetation at these sites.  A container-grown tree and shrub seedling production program was established; biosolids were introduced as soil amendments; and specific mycorrhizal fungi and bacteria were utilized to inoculate tree seedlings, shrubs and grasses.  Through PHC-REC's innovative reclamation program, the hazards were mitigated and the client's objectives were met.  In addition, all regulatory compliance was achieved with local, state, and federal agencies and the client received three (3) environmental awards for reclamation. </div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300d800c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Total Project Cost: $100,000,000.00</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300d800c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">PHC-REC Project Responsibility: $500,000.00</div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00a800c800000001.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">UMETCO</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300d800c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">In 2000, PHC-REC provided biological consulting and vegetation establishment services for a reclamation project located near the town of Uravan, Colorado at a former uranium-processing mill site.  The mill site is under federal environmental cleanup jurisdiction through the Superfund program. PHC-REC's responsibilities included plant species and suitable soil amendment selection and oversight of all associated agronomic work (seedbed preparation, pitting and seeding, VAM application).  Pelletized VAM fungi was incorporated in the soils during agronomic work and shrub seedlings were inoculated with Pt fungi prior to planting.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300d800c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">PHC-REC Project Responsibility: $164,800.00</div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00a800c800000001.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">ANP BLACKSTONE ENERGY COMPANY</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300d800c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">PHC-REC provided technical and biological services for the reclamation and restoration of a borrow area located adjacent to ANP's power generating facility in Massachusetts. PHC-REC's tasks included design review, developing a revegetation program, estimating construction costs, securing contractors, and providing on-site construction management. Goals achieved for this project included the protection and restoration of wetlands, re-establishing drainage's, erosion control abatement, and establishing a sustainable vegetative cover by utilizing mycorrhizal fungi.</div> <div>  </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300d800c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">PHC-REC Project Responsibility: $187,600.00</div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00a800c800000001.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">HOMESTAKE MINING COMPANY - PITCH MINE</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300d800c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">PHC-REC assisted Homestake personnel in providing technical and biological services for Homestake's reclamation program.  Due to harsh site and climatic conditions, poor grass establishment, high tree mortality, and erosional problems existed at the mine. By using pelletized VAM during agronomic activities and inoculating 18,000 Lodgepole Pine seedlings, grass, forb and tree establishment has been successful and slope erosion is minimal due to the rooting depths achieved.</div> <div>  </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300d800c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">PHC-REC Project Responsibility: $100,000.00</div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00a800c800000001.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">WYOMING AML PROJECT 12D (BENTONITE RECLAMATION)</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300d800c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">PHC-REC was awarded an engineering and construction management contract for the reclamation of 27 abandoned bentonite mines in Northeast Wyoming.  Hazards associated with these sites include highwalls, unstable slopes, bentonitic muck, open pits, degraded water quality, and environmental degradation of natural drainage's.  PHC-REC's responsibilities include consents and clearances, site investigations, preparation of reclamation designs and specifications, site eligibility research, permitting, surveying, pre-construction bidding services, and construction management.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300d800c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Total Estimated Construction Cost: $6,500,000.00 </div> <div>   <B> </B></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300d800c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">PHC-REC Project Responsibility: $1,300,000.00<B>   </B><B>          </B></div> <div> <A HREF="#top_1_1" TITLE="About PHC"><B>Back To Top</B></A><A HREF="#top_1_1" TITLE="About PHC"><B> </B></A><B>   </B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>