2017-02-15_REVISION - C1996083 (2)

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A-3 the LBA area has not had focused timber management. No outfitter guides are operating within the LBA. Other than livestock grazing, no natural, processed or manufactured products that enter commerce are produced from the LBA. No current management activities or reasonably foreseeable activities on the LBA are incompatible for leasing these lands. In addition, foreseeable surface operations and impacts will be incident to an underground coal mine. Therefore, for reasons stated above, the exception can apply to this criterion. BLM inventoried area streams and rivers in 2006 as part of the evaluation of Wild and Scenic Rivers (WSR) in the UFO. A 1.21-mile segment of the West Fork of Terror Creek has Outstandingly Remarkable Values and is potentially suitable for inclusion into the National Wild and Scenic River System. There are BLM surface lands and private surface with the subsurface minerals managed by BLM. The following portions of the proposed lease are within ¼ mile of the BLM stream segment. Township 13 South, Range 91 West, 6th P.M., Section 5: W/2W/2SENE – approximately 10 acres Township 13 South, Range 91 West, 6th P.M., Section 6: lots 1 & 2 – approximately 80 acres In early 2011 the Gunnison Basin stakeholder group concluded public meetings and submitted their suitability recommendations for eligible segments in the Gunnison River basin to the BLM UFO. These recommendations, as well as other public comment, are being considered during formulation of the preferred alternative for the Uncompahgre Resource Management Plan, which is currently under development. The RMP will make recommended decisions concerning this section and ultimately Congress will have the final decision under the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act. BLM policy is to protect the resource values found in the segments pending decisions by Congress on the eligibility of the various river segments. Current plans for mining may include the lands under the West Fork of Terror Creek. Subsidence associated with the Proposed Action is expected to be minimal to negligible, and would generally affect the area immediately overlying those areas that are mined; therefore, there are likely no impacts to the West Fork of Terror Creek resources resulting from subsidence. Lands inventories are suitable for coal leasing after applying the exceptions to the criteria. In order to protect the West Fork of Terror Creek inventoried segment of the Wild and Scenic River, the following lease stipulation would be required: • State-of-the-art mining techniques (pillar and panel widths, rate of coal development and extraction, mine method, determining angle of draw [angle between a vertical line drawn upward to the surface from the edge of the underground opening and a line drawn from the edge of the opening to the point of zero surface subsidence], etc.) shall be used to control subsidence. • No surface developments (i.e., MDWs or access roads) shall be allowed within the ½ mile wide river study corridor (i.e., 1/4 mile wide on each side of the West Fork of Terror Creek) on BLM lands/minerals. This stipulation will no longer apply if the eligible