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2.04.3 <br />Ditch provide important irrigation water to the pasturelands and orchards. <br />The nearby orchards are operated on a for profit basis. The pasturelands <br />are used for livestock grazing and hay production. There are many single <br />family houses nearby. The nearby industrial activities include a coal loadout <br />facility, railroad tracks and old State Highway 133. <br />Certain areas within the permit and adjacent areas have been disturbed as <br />the result of previous mining activities. The King Mine operated from 1903 to <br />1975. Remnants of the King Mine include the sealed portals, hoist house <br />and hoist, waste coal, many concrete foundations, a powder magazine and <br />office building. There is also an abandoned coal fired power generating plant <br />and smoke stack within the permit area. The old Bowie townsite is also <br />within the permit area. All of the homes associated with the Bowie townsite <br />have been removed. <br />Stevens Gulch Road and several trails transect the West Mine Expansion <br />(2010). Many of these trails were originally constructed to access coal <br />. exploration drilling sites and have either been reclaimed or improved by the <br />surface landowner. Steven's Gulch Road was originally constructed to <br />access U.S.D.A., Forest Service lands north of the permit area and was <br />improved (paved) by Colorado Westmoreland Inc. to the entrance to the <br />now reclaimed Bowie No. 1 East Mine. The remainder of the road is gravel <br />surfaced and is maintained by the County and the USDA -FS. <br />A few summer homes are located along Stevens Gulch Road adjacent to the <br />West Mine Expansion permit area. Pitkin Mesa Pipeline, a community <br />domestic water system, approximately parallels Stevens Gulch Road through <br />the permit area. The U.S. Department of Energy, Western Area Power <br />Administration's Curecanti -Rifle 230/345 -KV transmission line is located west <br />of Terror Creek and bisects the permit boundary. <br />(2)(a)(i) Map 12, Premining and Map 13, Postmining Land Use is included in the <br />permit document in Volume II. <br />PR -12 2.04 -2 06/10 <br />A PPRoOLD <br />1!/(611- <br />