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CONTAINS PRIVILEGED INFORMATION-DO NOT DISTRIBUTE <br /> <br /> <br /> iii <br />MANAGEMENT SUMMARY <br />Mountain Coal Co., LLC (Mountain Coal) is proposing to mine three new subsurface longwall <br />panels (Panels 15–17) at the West Elk Mine, in Gunnison County, Colorado. The proposed work does <br />not include any direct surface disturbances, but there is some potential for surface subsidence <br />related to the proposed panel mining. Because the project is federally authorized and extends across <br />United States Forest Service (USFS)-managed land, various cultural resource laws apply. To meet <br />these historic preservation law requirements, Mountain Coal retained Alpine Archaeol ogical <br />Consultants, Inc. (Alpine) to conduct a literature review and an intensive pedestrian cultural <br />resource inventory of the project’s Area of Potential Effect (APE) in advance of the project. Alpine’s <br />inventory examined 302.6 acres of land, comprising 201 acres of private land and 101.6 acres of <br />lands on the Gunnison National Forest. No historical or prehistoric cultural resources were <br />encountered during the survey. Alpine does not recommend any additional cultural resource work <br />for the project. <br /> <br />