2014-10-10_PERMIT FILE - C1996083 ‎(7)‎

• Permit No: C1996083
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 10/10/2014
• Doc Name: After 1996
• Section_Exhibit Name: Volume III Exhibit 09 Wildlife
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE
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Southern Ecosystem
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To: Assistant Director, Western Support Center, Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation,
and Enforcement, Denver, Colorado
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From: Regional Director, Region 6
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Denver, Colorado
Subject: Bowie Resources Limited Number 1 Mine Technical Revision 32 and Number 2
Mine Permit Revision Number 3 Final Biological Opinion
In accordance with section 7 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (16 U.S.C.
1531 et seq.), and the Interagency Cooperation Regulations (50 CFR 402), this transmits the Fish
and Wildlife Service's final biological opinion for impacts to federally listed endangered species
for the subject projects. Copies of this opinion should be pcovided to the applicant because the
Service has incorporated reasonable and prudent alternatives that should be included as
conditions of any permits issued by the Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation, and Enforcement
for this project.
Reference is made to your September 10, 1999, correspondence requesting initiation of formal
consultation for the subject project. The Service concurs that the annual depletion of water from
the Colorado River Basin "may affect" the endangered Colorado pikeminnow (formerly
squawfish) (Ptychocheilus Iucius), humpback chub LGila cypha), bonytail (Gila elms), and
razorback sucker (Xyrauchen texanus) and "may affect" their critical habitat.
BIOLOGICAL OPINION
. Based upon the best scientific and commercial information that is currently available, it is the
Service's biological opinion that the proposed project, as described below, is likely to jeopazdize
the continued existence of the Colorado pikeminnow, humpback chub, bonytail, and razorback