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• tunnel portal going through the hogback. At the base are cuts <br />where previous facilities sat and residue from previous <br />stockpiles. <br />Access to this area is obtained along roads that are <br />currently utilized in farming/ranching operations. <br />NCIG has placed approximately 20 inches of topsoil and <br />revegetated the former coal stockpile site east of the NCIG <br />mine site. This area is at the old CF&I Coal Ridge No. 1 <br />mine, at the base of the tram line. This operation mined coal <br />from the "B" seam around the turn of the century. This land <br />is owned by NCIG and its postmining land use will be <br />rangeland/wildlife habitat. <br />No other reclamation of previous mining activities is <br />planned. The original development program of the Coal Ridge <br />No. 1 mining project had required, as part of the Special Use <br />Permit issued by the county (85-171 and 90-083), the widening <br />of County Road 335 to facilitate the trucking of coal to the <br />' Lacy loadout. This widening would have required the removal or <br />relocation of some of the remaining structures of the Vulcan <br />No. 4 mine. Due to the early abandonment of the mine <br />development plans, NCIG was not required to perform any work <br />on County Road 335 and botY.. Special Use Permits have expired. <br />Subsequently, during 1993, the road was paved over its <br />existing width by the county highway department. <br />The mine site of the former Vulcan No. 1, 2 and 3 mine <br />are being utilized by the land owner. It is believed, that <br />the structures of the former Vulcan No. 4 mine are being <br />considered for protection by the Colorado Historical Society. <br />None of these facilities are located on NCIG owned lands. <br />3.1.4 Land Use Cla ~ icat~ons under Local aw <br />Garfield County classifies land use within its borders <br />through countywide zoning. The zoning classifications around <br />the permit area are shown cn Figure 3.1-4. A large portion of <br />the permit area is currently designated A/R/RD (Agriculture/ <br />Residential/rural Density). Federal lands are designated 0/S <br />(Open Space). A portion of the permit area is an existing PUD <br />zone, which is a pre-existing Planned Unit Development. <br />Post-mining land use will be cropland, pasture/wildlife <br />habitat and range land/wildlife habitat. There will be no <br />change of the present county zoning classification. <br />~.. <br />NCIG-Coal Ridge No.l 3-7 03-1-95 <br />