2014-11-21_PERMIT FILE - C1996084 (23)

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Rule 2: Permits The Primero Mine portals aze located in the mouth of Smith Canyon near Segundo. This mine extracted six to eight feet ofPrimero Coal using room and pillartechniques with secondary recovery from (902- 1925. The portal is located at approximately 6900' MSL and the topographic high in the area is 7200' MSL. There is no evidence of subsidence in the area from reviewing aerial photography. Las Animas County Land Use Classification All lands within the perrrtit area are privately owned. County land use controls which apply to private lands include the Las Animas County Land Development Guide, last updated in 1994. The Guide includes the Comprehensive Plan for the county and the Zoning Regulations. The zoning districts in the county were developed to implement land-use controls that limit the uses ofland in the azea. There aze two zoning districts in the project area: the Agricultural District and the Rural Residential District. ThemajorityofthepermitazeaislocatedintheAgricultura(District. This district protects the productive agricultural lands of the county while preserving the visual and cultural values associated with agricultural lifestyles in nual, unincorporated areas ofLas Animas County, mountains and plains. Underground coal mines and strip mines are a Conditional Use ofthe zoning district, and require a special use permit. The lands along the Purgatoire River and State Highway 12 adjacent to the northern boundary ofthe pemut • area are in the Rural Residential zoning district. This district generally comprises those areas ofthe County along Highway 12 from the Stonewall Valley to Trinidad and on the fringes ofTrinidad which are more conducive to development becauseofthegeneralavailabilityofpublicservicesandfacilities. Underground coal mines are a Conditional Use ofthe zoning district, and require a special use permit. Strip mines are. aprohibiteduseofthedistrict. This application does notproposeminingwithinanyRuralResidential District. 2.04.4 CULTURAL AND HISTORIC RESOURCE INFORMATION A listing ofall known cultural resources in areas that wi II be affected by surface activities is included in Ezhibit5. There are no previouslyrecorded cultural resources in the permit area according to current records at the Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation in Denver. Field work for a cultural resource inventory of about 1765 acres slated for surface impacts has been completed. Ninety-five sites and66isolatedfindshavebeenfoundinthesurveyedportionofthepermi[area. Ninetyofthesitesare prehistoric resources, one is historic, and four have both a historic and prehistoric component. The isolated finds are similarly split between historic and prehistoric resources. At this time, only a single site is recommended to be eligible for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places. Twenty-seven sites are unevaluated foreligibilitytotheNationalRegister. Theremainderofthesites(67)arerecommended to be not eligible for inclusion on the National Register. Additional sites and isolated fmds may be found • ,~,.,~;,opm,.p„R~,,,~,~inoo~.wa 2.04-3 (revised 7/25/01)