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Highbury Resources, Inc. DOE Uranium Leases 1 <br /> Environmental Review <br /> • 1.0 INTRODUCTION <br /> Highbury Resources Inc., a subsidiary of Anfield Energy Inc., controls a number of lease tracts <br /> formerly leased by Cotter Corporation. Of these, reclamation is planned for six leases: JD-5, JD- <br /> 6, JD-7, JD-8, SM-18, and SR-11. <br /> Amber Traysky, a biologist with Real West Natural Resource Consulting (Real West), conducted a <br /> site survey and reconnaissance on March 12 — 14, 2024 to identify the fauna and flora within the <br /> various lease areas where disturbance has occurred. The purpose of this report is to document the <br /> potential for federally listed threatened and endangered (T&E) species to occur on the site or in <br /> the vicinity as well as the possible presence of other Species of Concern. <br /> 2.0 SITE DESCRIPTIONS <br /> The site surveys focused on the disturbance areas at each of the leases, rather than the entire lease <br /> acreage. The various disturbance areas cover approximately 241 acres and are listed in Table 2-1. <br /> Discussion of the lease sites will be grouped according to location with the JD sites together, the <br /> SM-18 sites together, and then the SR-11 site alone. Aerial photographs of each of the three <br /> locations are in Figures 1, 2 and 3. <br /> 2.1 JD Lease Sites <br /> The JD-5, JD-6, JD-7, and JD-8 sites are within leases that cover a total of 3,179.66 acres. The <br /> sites are in all or portions of Sections 13, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 29, and 30; T46N; R18W. The <br /> leases are on or near Monogram Mesa that rises southwest of Paradox Valley. A view from the <br /> mesa, looking into the valley, is in Figure 4. Elevation in the valley where the main DD 19 Road <br /> exits from Colorado Highway 90 is 5,600 feet. Within 0.25 mile it begins to ascend via a winding <br /> road up the mesa. The summit of Monogram Mesa, 0.4 miles southeast of the portal area of JD-8, <br /> is at an elevation of 7,165 feet. From the summit the terrain descends to an elevation of 6,950 feet <br /> over 0.4 miles as-the-crow-flies, although the access road winds back and forth on the descent for <br /> 2.0 miles. The water treatment site for JD-9 is within this flat plain. The terrain drops again to an <br /> elevation of 6,300 feet over a distance of 1.0 mile to the area of the JD-9 portal. <br /> • <br /> March 2024 Real West Natural Resource Consulting <br />