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Criterion t;o. 20 -- State Lands Unsuitable <br />• Analysis: gone of these federal lands have been designated by <br />the state as unsuitable for surface coal mining operations. <br />Criterion flo. 21 -- State Proposed Criteria <br />Analvsis: The state cf Colorado has.not proposed criterion by <br />which lands may be designated unsuitable for surface coal <br />mining operations. <br />Criterion t;o. 22 -- Prime Farm Lands <br />Analysis: These federal lands do not include areas ~,~ith any <br />soils trhich qualify as prir,.e farmland as defined in <br />. 3C(CFR): 71 u. 7. <br />Criterion tdo. 23 -- Alluvial Valley Floors <br />Analysis: hone of these federal lands contain alluvial valley <br />floors as defined in 30(CFR): 822. <br />• Criterion .;o. 24 -- Reclaimability <br />Anzlysis: It is felt that revegetaticn of disturbed sites <br />resulting from the proposed action gill be possible, based <br />on the fact that successful reveyetaticr. cf similar sites <br />has occurred in the arez (at the :~estmoreland Orchard <br />• Valley t-iine, discussed in the Ylest-Central Coal ES, AR-3). <br />Sun~nar <br />It. is the conclusion of the unsuitability analysis that no part cf <br />the 864 acre tract of federal lands examined is unsuitable for surface <br />coal mining operations ~;rithin the meaning of Section 522 of the Surface <br />Mining Control and Reclamation Act. <br />The conclusion eras based on the best resource inventories available <br />at this tune as Drell as the best information concerning the surface <br />effects of underground niinina (primarily subsidence) and the applicant's <br />best estimate of the surface facilities necessary tc mine the tract. <br />• <br />