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Denver Brick Company AEE Project E95-7084 Stevens Lease Clay Mine January 8, 1996 Douglas County, Colorado Pape 17! ~ ' Clay from the proposed mine will be used only by Denver Brick Company in the manufacture of brick at the Castle Rock plant. Clay will not be sold as a commodity to any other source. 4.4.4 Legal Considerations Preservation of Commercial Mineral Deposits Act l Clay specifically is not listed as a "commercial mineral deposit" as defined under the Act. I However, it is "a natural mineral deposit ... for which extraction by an extractor is or will be commercially feasible and regarding which it can be demonstrated by geologic, mineralogic, or other scientific data that such deposit has significant economic or strategic value to the area, state, or nation." Clay deposits as found on the proposed mine site occur in relatively small lenses throughout the Dawson Arkose areal extent. These are not mapped in Douglas County on the map included in the Mineral Extraction Master Plan for Douglas County, Sand, Gravel, and Quarry ~ , Aggregate Resources of the Colorado Fiont Range Counties, Schwochow et.al., 1974. olorado Mined Land Reclamation Ac A Regular 112 Permit for Mining and Reclamation application will be submitted to the CMLRB and all rules and regulations will be complied with. 4.4.5 Land Use Issues It can be concluded that extraction is an appropriate use on the proposed mine site. The site is relatively isolated and no high intensity or incompatible land uses presently exist within at least gone-half mile radius. The extractive land use will not be permanent, will be short-term, and the end land use will be a return to wildlife habitat and native grass rangeland. ' Surrounding Land Uses ' Both the mine and access road are surrounded by rangeland uses and agricultural zoned properties. Adjacent existing land uses are laheled on the Mine Plan Map. Existing uses of the site and adjacent properties are rangeland and are zoned A-1. A former clay mine is ' located across Lemon Gulch to the southeast. Surrounding land uses are low density, with most properties within one-halt mile vacant rangeland and agricultural Isee Sheet 1, Vicinity Map). Most properties within one-half mile are zoned,A-1, except one 16-acre tract located one-quarter mils south of the project site is zoned A-2. Existing land uses of other properties are rangeland to the east, and agricultural ' (ranging from density of two residences on the 16-acre tract to one residence per 35-acre tract) to the west and south. ' Within one mile of the site are the Castle Park Ranch (35 acres per unit) development one-half mils wost, The Pinery Planned Development (3/4 mile south), and Arlington Ranches and Richlawn Hills rural residential subdivisions (one mile east). 1 ®AGRA Earth & Environmental