APPCOR11713

• Permit No: C1980007
• IBM Index Class Name: Application Correspondence
• Doc Name: ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

The DSFS identified a need for monitoring of water sources (springs and stock
ponds, etc) above areas to be retceat mined during the grazing season. The
monitoring would be required monthly unless the District Ranger determines a
different frequency is necessary. This commitment was made in the permit
application and therefore, a special condition was not needed in the State
permit or mining plan approval.
Additional mitigative stipulations are included in the Colorado MLRD renewed
permit.
1~+o special conditions of the existing mining plan approval are no longer
necessary. Special Condition 5 required the addition of the United States of
America to the bond as a co~bligee. This has been done. Special Condition 6
stated that the_mining plan approval does not affect the outcome of the (then
current) challenge to the Federal permit before the Interior Board of Lands
Appeal (IBLA). A decision on the merits of the case was issued by the IBLA on
September 27, 1985, and on the issue of relief on November 18, 1986. No
additional conditions were required by those decisions.
PREVIOIIS ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENTS
Environmental studies on the Mt. Gunnison No. 1 mine prepared by Federal
agencies include the following documents:
BLM. 1979. West Central Colorado Coal Environmental Statement.
Site specific impacts of the current operations at the Mt. Gunnison No. 1 mine
were discussed in the the following documents:
OSlgtE. August 1481. Mt. Gunnison No, 1 Mining Plan Approval
Environmental Assessment.
OSMRE. August 1985. Mt. Gunnison No. 1 Mining Plan Modification
Environmental Assessment.
OSlQ2E. September 1985. Mt. Gunnison Hine Mining Plan Modification
Environmental Assessment.
PREPARERS
This environmental assessment was prepared by:
Floyd McMullen, Project Leader
Mel Granberg, Senior Project Manager
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