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Rifle Gravel Pit #1 January 2020 <br /> August 31) to avoid any potential for direct impact to cuckoos. The anticipated indirect <br /> impacts to foraging habitat would result in an insignificant and temporary degradation of <br /> potential habitat for cuckoo in the vicinity of the Project. Therefore, the Proposed Action <br /> "may affect, but is not likely to adversely affect" yellow-billed cuckoo. <br /> The project does not cross proposed Critical Habitat for the cuckoo; therefore, the project <br /> would have had "no effect" on Critical Habitats. <br /> 9.2.3 Colorado River Endangered Fish <br /> The USFWS identified the bonytail chub, Colorado pikeminnow, humpback chub and the <br /> razorback sucker for potential impacts from this project. These species occur in lower <br /> elevation, larger rivers, including the Colorado River in the vicinity of Rifle, immediately <br /> downstream of the Project. The project will be complying with a CDPHE Stormwater Permit <br /> and will not be discharging into the Colorado River. No work is proposed within natural <br /> hydrologic features tributary to the Colorado River, or within the Colorado River itself. Given <br /> there will be no direct or indirect impacts to occupied habitats or these species, this project <br /> will have No Effect on these species, and No Effect to Critical Habitats. <br /> 9.2.4 Greenback cutthroat trout <br /> No habitat exists on the property or in the adjacent Colorado River for native cutthroat trout. <br /> In addition, no work is proposed within the channel of the Colorado River or any natural <br /> tributaries. Therefore, no direct impacts would result from this project. USFWS lists these <br /> species as potentially impacted due to the presence of occupied habitat downstream from <br /> the Parcel, and the potential for indirect impacts to water quality via water depletions. <br /> Potential indirect impacts would include water depletions or water quality degradation in <br /> potential or occupied habitat. However, the project area is not tributary to any downstream <br /> waters that are known or suspected of containing cutthroat, therefore the potential for <br /> indirect impacts is very low. <br /> The project would comply with CDPHE-WQCD Stormwater Permit requirements: site <br /> stormwater would be collected and treated appropriately and would not be discharged to the <br /> Colorado River. Therefore, the project is not anticipated to increase the likelihood of future <br /> contamination of downstream waters. For these reasons, the project would have no effect <br /> on the greenback cutthroat trout. <br /> 9.2.5 Debeque phacelia <br /> No habitat exists on the property or in nearby adjacent or downgradient areas. This species <br /> is restricted entirely to outcroppings of the Wasatch geological formation, generally in areas <br /> of steep gradient and extensive bare mineral soil. The proper geologic substrate is not found <br /> on the property, nor are the native xeric biological communities where the species is found. <br /> Because the project will not directly or indirectly impact habitats, and is relatively far from <br /> potentially occupied habitats, there is no anticipated direct, indirect or cumulative impacts to <br /> habitats. This project will have No Effect to the phacelia or its Critical Habitat. <br /> 9.2.6 Ute ladies'-tresses <br /> Habitat for this orchid occurs along riparian edges, gravel bars, old oxbows, high flow <br /> channels, and moist to wet meadows along perennial streams. It typically occurs in stable <br /> wetland and seepy areas associated with stable features within historical floodplains of <br /> 31 <br />