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EMD (Panels 2 -Right through 6 -Right, PR97-04) <br />As with the initial EMD panels (9 -Right through 7 -Right), the proposed operations will not impact areas of <br />unusually high value for fish and wildlife. The prior database survey, which is present in Exhibit 19A, indicates no <br />nesting activity is occurring within the Middle Creek drainage. The recovery rooms for the southern longwall <br />panels in the EMD will be sufficiently removed from the Twentymile Sandstone outcrop to prevent complete <br />failure of the face. Therefore, the nests located in this section of the Twentymile Sandstone will not be impacted by <br />the continuing operations in the EMD. <br />NMD and W MD (Panels 17 -Right through 24 -Right, 12 -Left through 20 -Left, and 14- and 15 -Left In by, PK <br />03-06, PR06-07, PR09-08, TR07-63, TR08-64, TR09-68, TR09-71) <br />TC's continued expansion into these areas of the North and West Mining Districts, will not impact areas of <br />unusually high value for fish and wildlife. There are no cliffs in the area that will be subsided, so there is no <br />potential for subsidence impacts to raptors. The Fish Creek valley will be subsided, as shown on Map 23, resulting <br />in the potential for seasonal flooding of low-lying areas and an increase in groundwater levels, relative to the <br />subsided surface along the margins of drainages channels. Both of these subsidence effects have the potential to <br />result in beneficial increases in riparian vegetation and habitat along the margins of affected drainages. The <br />flooded area will be dictated by surface flows in Fish Creek. During spring runoff, more of the valley will be <br />flooded, with flows and water levels declining, as the runoff abates. Rough approximations of flooded area <br />acreages are presented in the AVF report prepared by SubTerra for these revisions. <br />WCR (Development and Mining of Panels WC-5RT through 911T, TR13-83, PR14-10) <br />Development and mining of the WCR will not impact areas of unusually high value for fish and. wildlife. The <br />planned longwall mining will result in incremental surface subsidence over much of the planned mining area, where <br />it underlies the previous mining in the EMD and NMD, and limited new surface subsidence where Panels WC-4RT <br />through 6RT extend beyond the previous mining limits. The controlled surface subsidence may affect portions of <br />the Fish Creek and Foidel Creek drainages, and grouse habitat in the vicinity, however, previous experience with <br />surface subsidence effects would indicate that any impacts would be minor and temporary in nature. <br />Qj Protection of the hydrologic balance. <br />PR14-10 2.05-127.1 01/20/15 <br />