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Summary <br />The Review Process <br />WFC submitted an application for a permit revision on April 21, 2016. The application was <br />deemed complete on April 29, 2016. The applicant's public notice was published in the San <br />Miguel Basin Forum for four consecutive weeks beginning on May 5, 2016. The comment period <br />ended on June 25, 2016. <br />WFC is proposing to remove the East and Northwest haul roads, install the North haul road, install <br />the South access road, revise the postmining topography, revise the post mining land use <br />configuration, update irrigation designs and update culvert location and sizes. <br />The Division received two comments during the comment period. In a letter dated May 9, 2016, <br />the CHS made a finding of `no historic properties affected.' In a letter dated May 31, 2106, CPW <br />stated they do `not foresee any significant negative impacts to wildlife.' <br />Description of the Environment <br />The New Horizon North (NHN) Mine permit area encompasses a total of 328.7 acres in western <br />Montrose County, three miles northwest of the town of Nucla. The NHN Mine facilities and <br />operations areas occupy one-half square mile of land that is bounded by Montrose County Z Road <br />on the North, AA Road on the South, 26.50 Road on the East and 26.00 Road on the West. <br />The NHN mining operations area is divided into three separate parcels, with three individual <br />landowners. The southern parcel, owned by Garvey, comprises 160 acres (WI/2 and E'/z of the <br />SW'/4 Section 25). To the north of Garvey is the 80 -acre Meehan parcel (S%z NWS/4 Section 25). <br />The northern most parcel (N�/2NW�/4 Section 25), also 80 acres in size, is owned by Glasier. <br />Land Use — Section 2.04.3 of the permit <br />The Garvey property is dominated by grazingland-reclamation across its southern extent. This <br />area was mined and reclaimed to dryland pasture by Peabody/WFC as the Nucla Mine, C-1981- <br />008. There are some minor inclusions of subirrigated land, where irrigation water has been <br />allowed to flow across the surface. The northeast corner was an area of grazingland—sagebrush. <br />The contour of this site lies above the elevation of the Second Park Lateral of the Colorado <br />Cooperative Company (CCC) Ditch, with the result that the area has never been irrigated. The <br />northwestern portion consisted largely of the intensively managed irrigated pasture land use, and <br />some irrigated pasture. <br />The Meehan property is bisected by "Meehan Draw", which flows from east to west across the <br />property. South of Meehan Draw, the majority of the area falls within the irrigated pasture land <br />use category, due to its proximity to the Second Park Lateral Ditch located uphill to the south. <br />Meehan's land to the north of the Draw has not been improved, and is classified as grazingland <br />sagebrush. Land use within Meehan Draw is classified as grazingland — subirrigated. <br />3 <br />