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APPENDIX P <br />McClane Canyon Mine Expansion and Fruita Loadout Facility Biological Assessment <br />Species <br />County <br />ESA Status critical Habitat <br />Mexican Spotted Owl <br />Garfield <br />Designated, <br />Threatened None in Mesa County <br />Strix occidentalis lucida <br />None in Garfield <br />Fish <br />Bonytail Chub <br />Garfield <br />Endangered <br />Designated, <br />Gila ele ans <br />Mesa <br />Mesa County <br />Humpback Chub <br />' <br />Garfield <br />Endangered <br />Designated, <br />Gila c ha <br />Mesa <br />Mesa Countv <br />Colorado Pikeminnow <br />Garfield <br />Endangered <br />Designated, <br />Mesa County <br />Ptychoche/lus Lucius <br />Mesa <br />Garfield County <br />Razorback Sucker <br />Garfield <br />Endangered <br />Designated, <br />Mesa County <br />Xyrauchen texanus <br />Mesa <br />Garfield Countv <br />Greenback Cutthroat Trout <br />Onc6ffiynchus clarki stomias <br />Garfield <br />Threatened <br />None Designated <br />Plants <br />Colorado Hookless Cactus <br />Garfield <br />Threatened <br />None designated <br />Sclerocactus qlaucus <br />Mesa <br />Ute Ladies' -tresses Orchid <br />Garfield <br />Threatened <br />None Designated <br />S iran8ies-diluvialis <br />DeBeque Phacella <br />Garfield <br />Threatened <br />Proposed <br />Mesa County <br />Phacelia submutica <br />Mesa <br />Garfield County <br />Parachute Beardtongue <br />Garfield <br />i <br />Threatened <br />I <br />Proposed <br />Penstomon debilis <br />Garfield Coun <br />Sources: FVVS, 2010a and FWS, 201 la and 2011b <br />4.1 Action Area <br />The Action Area includes all areas that would be affected directly or indirectly by the Proposed <br />Action and not just the immediate area involved in the action. The Action Area for this Project is <br />divided between the -Mine and the Loadout Facility. <br />At the Mine, the Action Area extends to 100 meters from the perimeter of all proposed surface <br />disturbances associated with the Mine expansion.. The" MS and BLM (2007) believe that <br />indirect project effects to Colorado hookless.cactus may.occur up to 100 meters (328 feet) away <br />but project activities farther than 106 meters from Colorado hookless cactus plants are expected <br />to have no effect (FWS and BLM, 2067).'' The Action Area also includes East Salt Creek from <br />the Mine downstream to the confluence with Mack Wash and Salt Creek, which is a direct <br />tributary to the Colorado River. Although the 100 -year floodplain has not been mapped for the <br />Colorado River downstream from the 18 -mile reach (from the Gunnison River to Loma), it is <br />likely, that Salt Creek provides constituent habitat elements for use by endangered Colorado <br />River -fishes (see discussion below) and, because it is connected with East -Salt Creek, its <br />inclusion in the Action Area is appropriate. <br />The Action Area at the'Loadout Facility is based on the -analysis of project effects to- the four <br />Colorado- River endangered fish species and effects to��designated critical habitat for olorado <br />pikeminnow and razorback sucker. The Action Area woufd include the 100 -year floodplain <br />associated with Reed Wash and the Reed Wash channel from the upstream limit 1,395 river <br />feet north of U.S. Highway 6/State Highway 50 downstream to the confluence with'the Colorado <br />River mainstem, 1,510 riverfeet'from the Loadodt Facility -property boundary. <br />These two components are within the larger Action Area related to water depletions. That area <br />encompasses the Upper- Colorado River Basin and listed species' critical habitats in the <br />Colorado River from Reed Wash downstream to Lake Powell, Utah. <br />15 <br />PR -02 10/12 <br />