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` ~ .~. <br />jj ,: <br />j l~~~` f~ Yee,::: <br />T <br />a.. <br />If this lease is issued and a mining plan approved for the new lease area <br />no additional impacts would result except that the impacts would continue <br />over an additional 32 years. Employment for 10 individuals and a local <br />source for home heating fuels would be maintained for an additional 32 <br />years. Subsidence could occur on an additional 120 acres. An additional <br />500,000 tons of Federal coal could to recovered and used for home heating <br />fuel. <br />Technical alternative: <br />Increase shrub density for Wildlife <br />This alternative was proposed by the USFWS. Under this alternative shrub <br />density on disturbed lands would increase from 2000 to 35000 plants per <br />acre. If this alternative was selected the utitlity of the private land <br />for grazing would be reduced. Increasinc the wildlife habitat by 33000 <br />plants per acre on 3.2 acres would not result in an increase in herd unit <br />as there are thousands of acres of habitat adjacent to the mire where the <br />wildlife population appears to be below optimum l,opulations. <br />Long term impacts: <br />Long term impacts that would occur if the mine plan is approved are: <br />Dlaximum recovery of coal used for local market purposes; continued <br />employment for approximately 6 to ten people; subsidence on 80 acres of <br />private land. This could increase to 200 acres if the proposed lease <br />application now pending is approved. Short, term impacts are expected to <br />be the same as long term except continued mininy would cause some short <br />term fugitive dust in the area; people and machinery may adversely affect <br />wildlife; about three arces of land have been remove from domestic <br />livestock and wildlife grazing. <br />