2017-02-15_REVISION - C1996083 (2)

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A-5 foundation, a structural review and acceptance by WAPA would be required. • Any drilling activities within WAPA’s right-of-way must be approved by WAPA in advance. Safety provisions would be provided to ensure there are no conflicts with WAPA’s transmission line or access. • The lessee is required to coordinate with WAPA’s operations center located in Western Rocky Mountain Region Office in Loveland, Colorado at least two weeks prior to commencement of any work beneath or adjacent to the transmission line. • Roads used to provide personnel and equipment access to WAPA’s facilities cannot be restricted or impaired in a way that denies access. Alternate access must be provided if an access road is blocked or damaged. Damage to WAPA’s access roads must be repaired by the lessee or lessee’s contractor. • State-of-the-art mining techniques (pillar and panel widths, rate of coal development and extraction, mine method, determining angle of draw, etc.) would be used to control subsidence. No mining related surface disturbance would occur within 100 feet of the outside line of the power line right-of-way without a written finding from the Authorized Officer and consultation with the right-of-way holder. These techniques would provide for maximum coal removal while insuring that sufficient coal is left in place to prevent subsidence. • The lessee/operator shall be required to perform the following with respect to monitoring, repairing, and/or mitigating subsidence effects on existing facilities under Special Use Permit with the Forest Service. Monitoring, repair and/or mitigation will be performed at the lessee’s expense. 1. Baseline condition surveys of existing facilities will be completed the fall following award of lease. Reports of this survey will be deliverable to the Forest Service by December 1 of that same year. 2. A Surface Facility Monitoring and Mitigation Plan (Plan) will be submitted to the Forest Service for review and approval not later than 12 months prior to scheduled undermining. The Plan will detail measures to be taken to monitor, repair, and mitigate subsidence effects on the facilities during actual mining and for one year post mining. There is a General Land Office Order, 6/1/1910, which classifies the lands within the application area for coal. The lands are also within the Paonia-Somerset Known Recoverable Resource Area, COC-20093. No other easements or surface leases for residential, commercial, industrial, or other public purposes are determined to exist within the LBA tract. CRITERION 3 Federal lands affected by section 522(e)(4) and (5) of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 shall be considered unsuitable. This includes lands within 100 feet of the outside line of the right-of-way of a public road, or within 100 feet of a cemetery, or within 300 feet of any public building, school, church, community or institutional building or public park, or within 300 feet of an occupied dwelling.