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can be counted toward the diversity standard. At least three of the species will be cool <br />season grasses. <br />No woody stem density success standard applies to the mine site. <br />XII. Post -mining Land Use <br />The Division is proposing to perpetuate the previously approved post -mining land use of <br />rangeland and cropland. Therefore, the Division makes no approvals with regard to an <br />alternative post -mining land use (4.16.3). <br />XIII. Protection of Fish, Wildlife and Related Environmental Values <br />A. The applicant has not proposed the use of persistent pesticides on the site during the <br />ensuing term of the permit. The Division makes no proposal to approve such usage <br />[4.18(5)(g)]• <br />B. Fish and wildlife habitat is not a planned post -mining land use. The applicant has not <br />selected plant species and distributions to specifically benefit fish and wildlife [4.18(5)(1)]. <br />Improvements to forage and cover for wildlife are incidental benefits. <br />XIV. Protection of Underground Mining <br />There are no surface coal mining activities, other than reclamation of disturbed areas, being <br />conducted within 500 feet of an active or abandoned underground mine. Therefore, the Division <br />proposes no approvals in this regard [4.19(1) and 4.22.4(1)]. <br />XV. Subsidence Control <br />Mining at the site has ceased, and no coal was extracted. A subsidence control plan is no longer <br />required. The Division makes no proposal to approve such a plan [4.20.1(2) and 4.20.3(1)]. <br />XVI. Concurrent Surface and Underground Mining <br />There is no concurrent surface and underground mining at the site. Therefore, the Division <br />makes no approvals with regard to such operations (4.22.2 and 4.22.3). <br />XVII. Operations on Alluvial Valley Floors <br />Information on alluvial valley floors is contained in Section 5.1 of Volume I and figures <br />5.1-1, 5.1-2, and 5.2-2 of the PAP. <br />The applicant identified unconsolidated streamlaid deposits along the Colorado River, Alkali <br />Creek, and South Canyon Creek. South Canyon Creek was not hydrologically adjacent to <br />the proposed mine for the approved permit terms; and was, therefore, not considered in this <br />alluvial valley floor (AVF) determinations. Alkali Creek and the Colorado River are <br />Coal Ridge Mine <br />Permit Renewal No. 7 19 December 5, 2016 <br />