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Short-term Lease Application C-27103 Comment • "The well permit (`23918-F) for the use of mine v:ater at ±he Nawks Nest East Mine was a?Droved by the State Engineer's Office in November, 197°. The applicant must still, however, obtain a 4later Court deer== prior to the use of this well. • Because this well will be a junior water right on the over- appropriated North Fork of the Gunnison River, the well vrill be subject to curtailment during calls by senior appropriators unless it is operating under a court approved plan for aug- mentation". Response See errata for text change. Chapter 3 Short-term Lease Application C-27432 Comment •' "In the section entitled "Mineral Resources" of Chapter 3, the ! USGS discussion of Maximum Economic Recovery for lease appli- cation C-27432 should be incorporated into the discussion as it ,. reflects a slightly more detailed discussion of ultimate recovery by longwall techniques on the bottom half of the seam". Response As noted in the Background section of Chapter 1, the proposed action and impact analysis were developed from plans submitted by the applicant to mine the tract. Neither the shori-term lease application (C-27432) nor the applicant's approved mining plan for their private and federal coal reserves indicate that longwall mining methods would be used to recover coal lying in the bottom half of the D seam on this tract. Therefore, the analysis of coal recovery presented in Chapter 3 for lease application C-27432 has net been changed: Short-term Lease Application C-27103 Comment In the discussion of hydrologic impacts, the TE/EA states that the quality of water in the area ar"fected by mining ^n les e application area C-27103 should not be significantly different from that of the premining discharge. No supporting informa- tion is given. n