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estimated by EGR to be 70.5 feet, with a maximum overburden width of 4 feet, which exceeds the 60-foot requirement of OAR 660-023-0180(3)(d)(B)(i). Accordingly, we find that the expansion area contains a quantity of aggregate material sufficient to meet the requirements of the administrative rule. We Find That The Criteria for Allowing Mining of the Site are Satisfied. OAR 660-023-0180(4): (a) The local government shall determine an impact area for the purpose of identifying conflicts with proposed mining and processing activities. The impact area shall be large enough to include uses listed in subsection (b) of this section and shall be limited to 1,500 feet from the boundaries of the mining area, except where factual information indicates significant potential conflicts beyond this distance. For a proposed expansion of an existing aggregate site, the impact area shall be measured from the perimeter of the proposed expansion area rather than the boundaries of the existing aggregate site and shall not include the existing aggregate site. The term “mining area” as used above is defined at OAR 660-023-0180(1)(g) as: “the area of a Site within which mining is permitted or proposed, excluding undisturbed buffer areas or areas on a parcel where mining is not authorized.” The Goal 5 Rule defines “mining” as: “the extraction and processing of mineral or aggregate resources, in the manner provided under ORS 215.298(3).” OAR 660-023-0180(1)(h). The definition of “mining area” restricts the review of impacts to 1,500 feet from the boundary of the area where mining is proposed to occur, unless factual information indicates that a significant potential conflict from mining could occur with existing and approved uses beyond that distance. We find that no credible factual information existing in the record to indicate or demonstrate that analysis of a larger impact area is required for the proposed mining activity. The applicant has analyzed all potential conflicts with mining of aggregate material on the expansion area within an impact area extending 1,500 feet from the perimeter of the proposed expansion area. The land uses of that impact area and the potential conflicts, with identified mitigation measures, are discussed in the following sections. (b) The local government shall determine existing or approved land uses within the impact area that will be adversely affected by proposed mining operations and shall specify the predicted conflicts. For purposes of this section, "approved land uses" are dwellings allowed by a residential zone on existing platted lots and other uses for which conditional or final approvals have been granted by the local government. For determination of conflicts from proposed mining of a significant aggregate site, the local government shall limit its consideration to the following: Ordinance - 13