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APPENDIX P <br />McClane Canyon Mine Expansion and Fruka Loadout Facility Biological Assessment <br />The Project is likely to adversely affect humpback chub critical habitat because: <br />• Water withdrawal from the Colorado River and/or fromaquifers connected to the <br />river by the Proposed Action would adversely affect critical habitat designated for <br />humpback chubs. <br />5.0 INTERDEPENDENT AND INTERRELATED EFFECTS <br />The ESA, as amended, described interrelated actions as those that are part of a larger action <br />and depend on the larger action for their justification. Interdependent actions are those that <br />have no independent utility apart from the action under consideration (50 § CFR 402.02). <br />All components of the Proposed Action have been included in the Project Description, Section <br />2.0. There are no additional Interdependent and Interrelated Effects due to the Proposed <br />Action. <br />6.0 REFERENCES <br />Affolter, R.H. 2009. Quality Characterization of Cretaceous Coal from the Colorado Plateau <br />Coal Assessment Area. Chapter Gin M.A. _Kirshbaum, L.N.R. Roberts, and L.R.H. <br />Biewick (editors). Geologic Assessmeht of Coal in the Colorado Plateau: Arizona, <br />Colorado. <br />Ahrens, M.J., and D.J. Morrisey. 2005. Biological Effects of Unburnt Coal in the Marine <br />Environment. Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review 43:69-122. <br />Air Resource Specialists. 2010. Air Quality Feasibility Modeling - Rhino Energy, LLC Train <br />Loadout (Fruita, CO). Air Resource Specialists, Inc., Fort Collins Colorado. <br />Anderson, J.W.; J.M: Neff, B.A. Cox, H.E. Tatem, and G.M. Hightower. 1974. Characteristics <br />of Dispersions and Water-soluble Extracts of Crude and Refined Oils and their Toxicity <br />to Estuarine Crustaceans and Fish. Marine Biology. 27:75-88. <br />Bauch, N.J., and N.E.'Spahr. 2000. Pesticides in Surface.Waters of the Upper Colorado River <br />Basin, -Colorado, 1996-98. Water -Resources Investigations Report 00-4005, U.S. <br />Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado. <br />Broderdorp, K. 2011. U.S. -Fish and Wildlife Service, Western Colorado Field Office, Grand <br />Junction., Personal Communication with Bureau of Land Management, Grand Junction <br />Field Office, Grand Junction. July 20, 2011. <br />Buhl, K.J., and S.J. Hamilton. 2000. The Chronic Toxicity of Dietary and Waterborne Selenium <br />to Adult Colorado Pikeminnow (Ptychocheilus ludius) in a Water Quality Simulating that <br />in the San Juan River. Final Report. US:Geological Survey Yankton Ecotoxicology <br />Research Station, Yankton, South Dakota. <br />Bureau of Land Management. 2008. Biological Survey Report for the Public Service Company <br />of Colorado's Garmesa Pipeline Project. USDI- Bureau of Land Management,. Grand <br />Junction Field Office, Grand Junction, Colorado. <br />Bureau of Land Management. 2009. Final Analysis of the Management Situation - Resource <br />Management Plan Revision. USDI-Bureau of Land Management, Grand Junction Field <br />Office, Grand Junction, Colorado. <br />Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; U.S.. Geological Survey, and Bureau of <br />Indian Affairs. 1998. Guidelines for Interpretation of the Biological Effect of Selected <br />37 <br />PR -02 10/12 <br />