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review at the Little Snake Resource Area Office, Bureau of Land tanagement, 1280 Industrial Avenue, Craig, Colorado. Technical Report on Climate and Air Quality for the Green River/Hams Fork Round II Coal Leasing EIS prepared by Radian Corporation, 1983b. Austin, Texas, for U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management, under Contract No. YA-553-CT-2-61. This document is also available for review at The Little Snake Resource Area Office, Bureau of Land Management, 1280 Industrial Avenue, Craig, Colorado. In summary, this specific emergency lease tract does not contain the following resources: threatened or endangered animal or plant species, floodplaine or wetlands, wilderness values, areas of critical environmental concern, wild and scenic rivers, visual resource management class I, II, or III areas, and cultural or historical values. A Class III cultural resource inventory was done in 1979 by Powers Elevation and no cultural or historical values were identified. The area hae a north facing slope with massive sandstone outcropping on the south. Vegetation is mountain shrub type, changing to an aspen type com- munity on the northern edge. However, the proposed tract does contain terrestrial habitat types that provide food and cover needed to sustain big game in winter and grouse survival. Descriptions of these habitat types are included in the Green River/Hams '.Fork Final EIS. An active prairie falcon nest site also occurs within this proposed lease tract. • This tract was previously determined to be unsuitable For surface mining 4