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r, 2. The BLH will coordinate with the Colorado Division of Wildlife to determine the type and extent of allowable variances. • 3. Coal exploration, facility construction, and major scheduled maintenance will not be authorized within these crucial winter ranges from December 1 ~ through April 30. ~ 4. All unavoidable surface disturbances within the ranges will require approval of. the BLM'e Authorized Officer. i No other federal lands within the review area, or off-site that would be effected by the proposed action ere considered critical or essential habitat for resident species of fish, wildlife or plants of high interest to the state of Colorado. Criterion 16 Federal lands in riverine, coastal, and special floodplaine (100-year recurrence interval) on which the surface management agency determines that mining could not be undertaken without substantial threat of lose of life or property shall be considered unsuitable for all or certain stipulated methods of coal mining. Analveie Approximately 6.6 acres (Map 4) of the proposed lease tract are located within the 100-year floodplain associated with the North Fork of the Gunnison River. These lands are unsuitable for coal mining. Because the depth of the C coal seam is 300 feet below the surface on the southwestern boundary of the proposed lease area, the threat of subsidence from coal extraction could disrupt the natural and beneficial functions of the floodplain. The threat of subsidence also poses a threat to human safety and property. Criterion 17 • Federal lands which have been committed by the surface management agency to use ae municipal watersheds shall be considered unsuitable. Analysis None of the lands in the proposed lease tract are within a municipal watershed. Criterion 18 Federal lands with National Resource Waters, as identified by states in their water quality management plane, and a buffer zone of federal lands 4-mile from the outer edge of the far banks of the water, shall be unsuitable. Analveie None of the lands in the proposed lease tract are identified ae a National Resource Water. Criterion 19 Federal lands identified by the surface management agency, in consultation with the state in which they are located, ae alluvial valley floors according to the definition in Subpart 3400.0-5(a) of this title, the standards of 30 CFR Part 822, the final alluvial floor guidelines of the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement when published, and approved state programs under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, where mining would interrupt, discontinue, or preclude farming, shall be considered unsuitable. Additionally, when mining federal land outside an alluvial valley floor would materially damage the quantity or quality of water in surface or underground water systems that would supply alluvial • valley floors, the land shall be considered unsuitable. 7