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Attachment C <br />FINDINGS <br />ARCO Coal Company <br />11t. Gunnison No. 1 (fine <br />Application for dining and Reclamation Plan <br />1. The plan and the permit application is accurate and complete and that~~~ <br />all requirements of the Surface dining Control and Reclamation Ac[ (the <br />"Act"), the approved Colorado State Program, and the Federal Lands Program, <br />including the ttineral Leasing Act, have been complied with (786.19(a)). <br />2. The applicant has• demonstrated that surface coal mining and <br />reclamation operations, as required by the Act, the approved State Program, <br />_ and the Federal Lands Program, can be feasibly accomplished under the mining <br />and reclamation operations plan contained in the application (786.19(b)). <br />3. The assessment of the probable cumulative impacts of all anticipated <br /> <br />coal mining in the general area on the hydrologic balance has been made by OSI1 <br />and the Colorado !tined Lands Reclamation Division, and the operations proposed <br />under the application have been designed to prevent damage to [he hydrologic <br />balance in associated off-site areas (see section 817.41 of TEA) (786.19(c)). <br />4. The proposed permit area is: <br />(a) Not included within an area designated unsuitable for <br />underground coal mining operations (see BLit (or FS) correspondence on June 11, <br />1981). <br />(b) !dot within an area under study for designating lands unsuitable <br />for underground coal mining operations. <br />