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the applicant to submit water depletion information for the purpose of calculating the <br />financial compensation amount. This stipulation was complied with through Minor <br />Revision No. 93. <br />In Technical Revision No. 32, a second venter depletion estimate was made concerning a <br />proposed increase in the production rate from 1 million to 5 million tons per year at the <br />Bowie No. 1 unit train loadout. T he water depletion estimate that was calculated by BRL <br />amounted to 155.6 acre-feet. This information was forwarded to the U.S.D.A.-Forest <br />Service for review, through OSM. BRL made a onetime payment to the Forest Service to <br />mitigate the effects of the estimated water depletion. <br />On the basis of available information, this Division finds that the proposed operation will <br />not affect the continued existence of threatened or endangered species or result in the <br />destruction or adverse modification of their critical habitats (2.07.6(2)(n)). <br />Fish and wildlife habitat is a planned postmining land use. The applicant has selected <br />appropriate plant species and distributions to benefit fish and wildlife (4.18(4)(i)). <br />XIV. Protection of Underground Mining - Rule 4.19 <br />This Section is not applicable to the Bowie No. 1 Mine permit. <br />XV. Subsidence Control - Rule 4.20 <br />Subsidence is discussed in Section 2.05 of Volume 1 of the PAP. Subsidence appendices <br />are found in Volume 3 of the PAP. Baseline documentation of surface water features <br />potentially impacted by subsidence is located in Volume 4. Annual hydrologic reports and <br />subsidence reports have been produced annually since 1982 and exist as standalone <br />volumes of the PAP. <br />The Bowie No. 1 Mine was locatedin the D seam andutilized conventional room andpillar <br />methodology. The applicant had completed the required inventory of structures and <br />renewable resource lands, a projection ofprobable subsidence, and developed a subsidence <br />control plan and an appropriate accompanying subsidence monitoring plan. <br />Inventory <br />The operator identified 41 structures within the permit andadjacent areas, depictedon Map <br />9-7. Twenty six (26) of these structures were inventoried within the permit area, as well as <br />two water pipelines and an all-weather gravel road within Steven's Gulch. No inventoried <br />structures will be affected by mining operations during this permit term since mining has <br />ceased. <br />The operator had also identified several alluvial/colluvial surficial deposits which <br />constitute renewable resource lands within the revised permit area. Surficial deposits have <br />been identified within Steven's Gulch, East Roatcap Creek, and in the area of the Morrell <br />36 <br />