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ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT <br /> members seasonally hunting on the subject ranch properties. Accordingly, negligible to no impacts are <br /> expected to private/tribal recreational opportunities on UMU Tribe privately owned lands in the Project <br /> Area. <br /> Cumulative Actions and Effects <br /> Resources not expected to be impacted by the Proposed Action are not carried through the cumulative <br /> impact assessment.As such, no CIAA was developed for the land use resource issue. However, in general, <br /> agricultural uses and ranching and livestock production are anticipated to continue in the area. In addition, <br /> the impacts of oil and gas developments, as well as other resource management actions,were addressed <br /> in the RMP/FEIS based on an RFD scenario of approximately 2,950 new wells in the next 15 years. Only 32 <br /> new wells were approved in three years after the 2015 RMP was signed.This represents an average of 0.7 <br /> new wells every month, which is only 4 percent of the RFD's predicted monthly average. <br /> Although the cumulative surface disturbance would be greater than the proposed new disturbance from <br /> the Project, it still would be a small increment of the vast acreage of public lands in the Project vicinity <br /> and would have minimal effect on land uses displaced by cumulative actions. <br /> Effects of Alternative B—No Action Alternative <br /> Direct Effects <br /> Under the No Action Alternative, the LBA would not be offered for competitive lease sale by BLM, there <br /> would be no mining plan modification to be considered and approved by OSMRE,and federal coal reserves <br /> and new private reserves in the LBA would not be recovered. Therefore, no direct impacts to other land <br /> uses within and adjacent to the LBA and the mine would occur. <br /> Indirect Effects <br /> Indirect impacts to other land uses within and adjacent to the LBA and the mine would not occur as no <br /> mining plan modification would be considered and no federal coal reserves in the LBA and no new private <br /> coal reserves would be recovered as a result of the federal coal lease not being issued. GCCE would <br /> continue mining within the existing federal and state mine permit areas until those coal reserves are <br /> mined out. <br /> Cumulative Actions and Effects <br /> Cumulative actions and effects to land use under the No Action Alternative would be less than those under <br /> the Proposed Action but would still be anticipated to be negligible, long-term cumulative effect on land <br /> uses. <br /> Dunn Ranch Area Coal Lease by Application COC-78825 and Mine Plan Modification EA 3-35 <br />