Date: December 11, 2000

Taken from the Power Point Presentation at the Dec. 11, 2000, meeting.

The Xenia/Bath/Miami Township Action Group (X-TAG) has formed to protect the integrity of our homes and the health and welfare of the community.

Quarrying in Greene County is the surface-mining of limestone, sandstone and other materials for the production of cement and aggregate. Southdown owns 5,500 (Approx.) acres in Greene Co. but only small percentage is in production. Southdown is hungry for more SCSE or high magnesium limestone which Greene County has plenty of. Where will they mine next?

What We Know or Can Predict

• Southdown’s Plan is an open-pit mine
• Strip topsoil and clay to expose bedrock
• Blasting to expose bedrock to approx. 40 ft.
• Likely crusher built on site
• Alternative is
  • Tunnel under 235
  • Conveyor system over 235
  • Trucks hauling material across 235
• 24/7 operation
• Reclamation Plan Unknown, but history is not promising
• Home values within a one-mile radius of any industrial facilities (including quarries), can be expected to drop by at least $13,000 relative to other properties further away. (OSU)
• Wildlife habitat will be completely destroyed
• Southdown’s need for water, electricity and perhaps coal will increase with the incumbent environmental effects

Southdown’s Fair Share? Annual real estate taxes in Greene Co.:
Southdown Approx. $250,000 or $45.45/Acre
Avg. Non-SD per acre rate $99/acre
Avg. Greene Countian $52/Acre
There are approx. 269,440 Acres in Greene Co.
Southdown = 2% owned and 1% of Real Estate Taxes
$14,663,259 (1999) Southdown Valuation
$2,663/Acre Avg. Valuation

Southdown and Your Water

Conclusions About Water:

• ODNR categorizes this area as yielding less than 3 gals/min. The lowest category listed
• Water is available only in upper few feet
• Deep wells NOT recommended

The impact of the proposed quarry is still being determined

Disputes With Southdown
Kosmos Cement Co 75 percent owned by SD. Battletown, KY assessed $42 million in severance tax payments for limestone mining. Still in dispute.

Accrued liabilities for environmental matters related to continuing operations in:
• 1999: $11.2 million,
• 1998: $13.7 million,
• 1997: $13.6 million.

Wampum, PA plant received 5 notices of violation in 1997 and 1998 US EPA Air emissions violations. Making payments on those violations

Legal issues: subsidiary ground and soil contamination in Alabama, environmental remediation liabilities

Project capital expenditures for environment to increase in future.

Note: All of the above indicates a pattern of contamination by the company