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I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I O~~S7n Reasonable methods will be used to accelerate and enhance vegetation success, especially in visually sensitive areas. (2) Durango Pumping Plant: (a) The Durango Pumping Plant will be designed such that it will blend into the natural land forms and the site will be revegetated as soon as practicable using native plant species, The form, color, and lines of the plant will compliment natural form, colors, and lines on the west side of the Animas River. The design elements will blend with surrounding vegetation and river terrace topography, and color. ii) General Construction: (I) All Project Construction Areas: (a) Ensure that construction contractors limit ground disturbance to the smallest practicable areas, and ensure that construction contractors implement best management practices (BMPs) along with the planting and/or reseeding disturbed areas using native plants species to assist in the re-establishment of native vegetation. (2) Gas Pipelines Relocation: (a) To minimize the temporary, short-term loss of vegetation cover and visual impacts from pipeline construction Reclamation committed to the following measures: (i) In visually sensitive areas, restoration of the construction right-of-way shall include the revegetation and establishment of small trees and shrubs, using locally native species wherever possible, to buffer the cleared right- of-way (Northwest Pipeline Corporation (NPC) and MAPCO will be responsible). (ii) Noxious weeds will be identified prior to construction of the pipelines, and control measures during construction (e.g. pre-construction herbicide spraying, equipment clearing) will be implemented to reduce the potential spread of such noxious weeds within the right-of-way and into adjacent disturbed lands (NPC and MAPCO will be responsible). (iii)A weed management plan will be prepared as part of the Plan to minimize the risk of weed infestations by eliminating existing weeds through scarification of the right-of-way before seeding and further weed control measures (NPC and MAPCO will be responsible). (iv)To minimize the clearing of ponderosa pines, the final route alignment, construction right-of-way configuration and placement of extra work space will be planned to minimize impacts on ponderosa pine parkland. 20) Indian Trust Assets and Environmental Justice - The ALP Project as formulated in the 2000 FSEIS does not meet the terms and conditions of the Settlement Agreement for the Colorado Ute Tribes. Under present conditions, the ALP Project as formulated in the 2000 FSEIS reduces the water supply available for the Jicarilla Apache Nation water rights in the San Juan River and limits the water supply available for the development of the proposed Navajo-Gallup Project designed to deliver drinking water to portions of the Navajo Nation 34