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42.05 APPLICAT;ON FOR PERMIT FOR SIIRFACE OR ONDERGROUND MINING ACT;V;TIES -- <br />MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR OPERATION AND RECLAMATION PLANS. <br />2.05.6 Mitigation of Surface Coal Mining Operation Impacts. '(Cont'd.) <br />• 2) <br />3) <br />4) <br />5) <br />6) <br />2) ;dentiEication of all vested water rights <br />within each drainage basin. <br />3) Location of water rights identified. <br />4) ;dentiEication of possible impacts. <br />5) Establishment of water replacement plans <br />for all adjudicated water rights histori- <br />cally put Co beneficial use. <br />C41; commissioned Hydro-Dynamics of Denver, <br />Colorado, to undertake a water rights invento- <br />ry, A complete search of the State Water En- <br />gineer's records was made and all water rights <br />in Che above mentioned drainage basins were <br />identified, <br />The water rights study is organized in the <br />following fashion: <br />l) General information on water rights within <br />the State of Colorado; <br />Summary of water rights; <br />Location of water rights; <br />Priority ranking uE water rights; <br />Decree summaries; <br />Diversion records. <br />See ?tap 5-1 for location of all vested water <br />rights within Che permit area. The vested wa- <br />ter rights locations were plotted based on ac- <br />tual decrees. <br />;n general, CW;'s water rights protection <br />stracepy takes the following approach: <br />1) Where possible, coal leases requested by <br />Colorado Westmoreland lnc. have been locat- <br />ed su as [o minimize the effect of under- <br />mining. This is especially true of the re- <br />cent long-term lease. Specifically, in the <br />Terror Creek area the boundary was located <br />so as [o put the stream channel completely <br />and substantially outside the mine plan <br />Revised 08/01/84 <br />. Revised 10/01/87 <br />96 <br />