2015-04-30_REVISION - C1981010

• Permit No: C1981010
• IBM Index Class Name: Revision
• Doc Date: 4/30/2015
• Doc Name: Review Memo
• From: Jared Ebert
• To: Tabetha Lynch
• Type & Sequence: MT7
• Email Name: TNL
• Email Name: JLE
• Email Name: DIH
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

Tabetha Lynch, DRMS
Page 7
4/30/2015
M25A, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has established a buffer zone around this site, and no surface
activity is permitted within the area between March 1 and July 31 each year. According to Section 2.4.2
of the permit, there are no areas within or adjacent to the mine plan area that have been or are pending
designation as "essential habitat" for any of the threatened or endangered species that could potentially
occur within the permit area. Given this specific control measures, management techniques and
monitoring methods to protect or enhance threatened or endangered species is not discussed.
(b) Powerline structures are designed to protect birds and raptors. Reclamation activities and the creation
of stock ponds enhance the wildlife value at the site. Appendix W of the permit is updated every year to
depict the new dozer basins, shrub clumps and reclamation activities at the site which enhance wildlife
value.
(c)This rule discusses a specific requirement of the Division to provide the wildlife resource information
to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service within 10 days of request.
There is one item that will need to be addressed:
• A prairie falcon nest site and buffer zone is depicted on Map M25A of the permit. Map M25A is
out of date and needs to be updated. Page 4 -161 discusses the prairie falcon nest site and needs to
be updated for the current permit term. Trapper should be aware that mining activities planned
for the next permit term appears to fall within the approved buffer zone for the nest site and the
surface activity may not occur within this area between March 1 and July 31St
2.05.6(4)
(4) There are no publicly owned parks within the permit area. One site is identified as eligible to be listed
in the National Register of Historic Places site, 5MF948. Section 4.1 of the permit discusses the
protection of cultural and historic resources. As indicated in the review section 2.04.4 above, additional
analysis needs to be done to determine any needed protection for site 5MF948.
2.06 Special Cateeories of Minin
2.06.8
(1)- (4)Alluvial Valley Floors (AVF) are discussed in section 2.7.7 of the permit. Appendix H contains a
detailed analysis of potential AVFs within the permit area and their potential impact. The applicant
identifies three areas where potential AVFs exist within and adjacent to the permit area; The Yampa River
in the Big Bottom area, the Williams Fork River near its confluence of the Yampa River and four
drainages within the permit area (No Name, Johnson, Pyeatt and Flume Gulch).
(5)The Division has found in writing in the Findings of Compliance Document for the Trapper mine that
the operation will not interrupt, discontinue or preclude farming on the Yampa River and Williams Fork
AVE Also, the Division has previously found that the four gulches noted above are not alluvial valley
floors.