SOW_Butcher_Infrastructure__0002.pdf

Bureau of Land Management, High Plains District, Wyoming Field Office: BFO Date: November 10, 2021

Statement of Work and Specifications

Project Name Butcher Coal‐Bed Natural Gas (CBNG) Infrastructure Removal

Objectives Remove CBNG production infrastructure from the federal leases and rights‐of‐way (ROW) and reclaim to BLM standards.

Location Work under this contract is located Campbell County, Wyoming approximately 38 miles northwest of Gillette, Wyoming. The work locations are shown on the attached maps and the legal locations are listed below.

SENW Section 32 T56N/R74W

Total Acres 0.5 acres Work Dates & Constraints

Upon Issuance of Contract

Description The associated production infrastructure is no longer being utilized for CBNG production.

The surface owner, Ron Butcher, and BLM agree that the associated production infrastructure should be removed from the federal lease and ROWs and fully reclaimed.

Furnishing labor, equipment, supplies, and materials to remove associated production equipment from the federal lease. Work consists of unclassified excavate, cut and cap pipe of various sizes exposed to the surface; remove two metal buildings (16ft‐L x 15ft‐W x 10ft‐ H), intact.

Provide all supervision, personnel, labor, materials, tools, equipment, maintenance and repairs, services, and all other facilities and incidentals required for the execution and completion of the work as specified. Provide all topsoil stripping and stockpiling, excavating, hauling, backfilling, grading, seeding, surface restoration, and associated work, as specified, and as required to complete all components of the work and all associated erosion control structures, complete, in place, and accepted by the Contracting Officer.

Prescription Any above ground infrastructure will be removed from the federal lease or ROW to the private surface owner’s storage area located T56N, R74W, Section 32 NWNW, including POD valve‐sets, stub outs, electrical conduit etc. All pipe exposed to the surface will be cut and capped and buried a minimum of 3 feet below ground surface. Caps will be welded in place.

Prep the topsoil for seeding

Apply seed at the specified rate.

See the BLM approved seed mix is listed in the reclamation plan.

Specifications

Access roads and staging areas will be left in as it was found prior to demobilization following project completion.

‐All surface production facilities will be removed and salvaged to the surface owner’s storage yard.

Date: November 10, 2021

Other Notes See Map and site photos below.

Project Contacts Jim Verplancke, Supervisory Natural Resource Specialist Office: 307‐684‐1057 Cell: 307‐620‐0799 Email: jverplan@blm.gov

Jeff Campbell, Natural Resource Specialist Office: 307‐684‐1076 Cell: 307‐696‐9573

Email: ccampbel@blm.gov

See the following Figures below:

Project Maps, Site Photos, Reclamation Plan, and Seed Mix

Figure 1: Project Map

Date: November 10, 2021

Figure 2: Site Photos

1. Butcher Header Building-POD 3 to remain in place after all surface pipe is to be cut, capped & buried 3-feet below ground surface.

2. Production equipment is to be salvaged and moved to Butcher yard.

3. Butcher Header Building-POD 3; 2 1/2” steel pipe to cut, cap & bury 3-feet below ground surface.

4. Butcher Header Building-POD 3; 5” steel pipe to cut, cap & bury3-feet below ground surface.

5. Butcher Header Building-POD 3; Two 5” steel pipe to cut, cap & bury 3-feet below ground surface.

6. Butcher Header Building-POD 3; 7” steel pipe to cut, cap & bury 3-feet below ground surface.

7. Butcher Header Building-POD 3 & blowdown valve set; Two 5” steel pipe to cut, cap & bury 3-feet below ground surface.

8. Butcher Header Building-POD 3; Electrical panel and fencing to salvage and move to Butcher’s yard.

Electrical conduit to cut and bury 3-feet below ground surface.

9. Butcher Header Building-POD 3; 5” polypipe stubout to cut & bury 3-feet below ground surface.

10. Butcher Header Building 4 to move to Butcher’s yard intact.

Date: November 10, 2021

11. Butcher Header Building 4; all surface pipe is to cut, cap & buried 3-feet below ground surface.

Production equipment is to salvage and move to Butcher’s yard.

12. Butcher Header Building 4; Six 5” steel pipe to cut, cap & bury 3-feet below ground surface.

13. Butcher Header Building 4; 2-1/2” steel pipe to cut, cap & bury 3-feet below ground surface.

14. Butcher Header Boulding 4; 12” steel pipe to cut, cap & bury 3-feet below ground surface.

15. 5” polypipe stubout to be cut & bury 3-feet below ground surface.

Date: November 10, 2021

Figure 3. Butcher’s Salvage Yard located T56N/R74W/Section 33 NWNW

(UTM: 438480/4960223)

Reclamation Plan

I. Reclamation Plan Requirements

CBNG production equipment located T55N/R74W/Section 5 NENW (UTM:437223/4958748)

-The 16ft-L x 15ft-W x 10ft-H metal building will remain intact at its current location and the production facilities within it removed and exposed pipes cut & caped 3-feet below the surface. The building can be moved intact to complete removal of the production equipment but will be placed back in its original location once dirt work is completed. Cut and cap three 5-inch, one 2.5-inch, and one 7-inch metal pipes.

-A minimum of 6-inches of topsoil will be savaged and segregated for all excavation and redistributed across the disturbance area following backfilling. Apply seed at the recommended rate.

-The dual valve header’s two 5-inch metal pipes will be cut, caped and buried 3-feet below ground surface; the metal cage salvaged and moved to Butcher’s salvage yard; see Figure 6.

-The electrical panel and metal fencing will be removed and four 3-inch poly, electrical conduit cut and buried 3-feet below ground surface.

-The 5-inch polypipe stub-pit pipe will be cut and buried 3-feet below ground surface.

CBNG production equipment located T56N/R74W/Section 32 NWNE (UTM:437728/4959776)

--A minimum of 6-inches of topsoil will be savaged and segregated for all excavation and redistributed across the disturbance area following backfilling. Apply seed at the recommended rate.

-The 16ft-L x 15ft-W x 10ft-H metal building will be savaged and moved intact to Butcher’s salvage yard and the production facilities within it salvaged and moved to Butcher’s salvage yard. All exposed pipes will be cut, caped and buried 3-feet below ground surface including; seven 5-inch, one 2.5-inch, and one 12-inch metal pipes.

CBNG production equipment located T56N/R74W/Section 32 NENE (UTM:438099/4960353)

-The 5-inch polypipe stub-pit pipe will be cut and buried 3-feet below ground surface.

Date: November 10, 2021

BLM Seed Mix

Loamy Ecological Site Seed Mix Species % in Mix Broadcast

Seeding Lbs

PLS

Drill Seeding Lbs PLS*

Western wheatgrass (Pascopyrum smithii) 24 6.0 3.0 Bluebunch wheatgrass (Pseudoroegneria spicata ssp. spicata) 9.6 2.4 1.2 Green needlegrass (Nassella viridula) 24 6.0 3.0 Slender wheatgrass (Elymus trachycaulus ssp. trachycaulus) 16 4.0 2.0 Blue grama (Bouteloua gracilis) 8 2.0 1.0 Prairie coneflower (Ratibida columnifera) 4.8 1.2 0.6 White or purple prairie clover (Dalea candidum, purpurea) 4.8 1.2 0.6 Rocky Mountain beeplant (Cleome serrulata) 4.8 1.2 0.6 Fourwing saltbush (Atriplex canescens) 4 1.0 0.5 Totals 100% 25.0 lbs/acre 12.5 lbs/acre *PLS = pure live seed, Northern Plains adapted species

Figure 4. Butcher Area Map