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Bureau of Land Management <br /> Royal Gorge Field Office Environmental Assessment <br /> DOI-BLM-CO-F020-2020-0036 EA <br /> Considered, <br /> Program area Issue statement(question) Brought forward but further Resource <br /> (in alphabetic order) /impact-causing element No Reason there is no issue or that <br /> for analysis issue further analysis is unnecessary specialist Date <br /> analysis deemed name <br /> unnecessary <br /> No phenomena that appear to be <br /> culturally sensitive were observed or <br /> Will the undertaking affect recorded by the archaeologists who Tribal Concerns phenomena with traditional or Monica <br /> X performed the cultural resources 1/5/21 <br /> religious significance to tribes? inventory. BLM is continuing to work Weimer <br /> with the tribes on the development of a <br /> streamlined consultation process. <br /> The proposed expansion area occurs in <br /> a mountain loam ecological site that is <br /> dominated by grasses.The proposed <br /> action would remove all vegetation <br /> from the site.Adjacent private land <br /> and existing developments cause <br /> How would the proposed mining fragmentation in the vegetative <br /> Vegetation expiation effect vegetation community.This reduces the impact Sarah <br /> Colorado Rangeland Health X 7/22/2020 <br /> � that the removal of vegetation will McClernan <br /> Standard#3. have in the area.Impacts will not be <br /> significant with the implementation of <br /> Reclamation Design Features such as <br /> structure removal,regrading, <br /> recontouring,and revegetation of the <br /> site. <br /> Both visual quality and sensitivity to <br /> How would the new proposed change is high in the broader area of <br /> Visual Resources Black Obsidian Mineral the project due to the view shed. <br /> Materials Contract affect visual X However,the specific project area is L Skinner 7/16/2020 <br /> resources? within a section of land with both <br /> historic and current mining activity. <br /> There is a high level of disturbance <br /> 34 <br />