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52.04 APPLICATION FOR PERMIT FOR SIIRFACE OR UNDERGRODND MINING ACTIVITIES -- <br />MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR INFORMATION ON ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES. <br />2,04.3 General Requirements: Site Description and Land Use Information. <br />(1) (Cont'd.) <br />Harner & Associates, Inc. of Littleton, Colorado, was con- <br />tracted to complete detailed soils and vegetation analyses for <br />the Orchard Valley West Mine site. An Environmental Assess- <br />ment was also completed for rights-of-way from the Bureau of <br />Land Management for the Orchard Valley West haul road and 46KV <br />powerline. See the reports in the VegetaCion Appendix in Vol- <br />ume 9A and Soils Appendix in Volune 9 for additional informa- <br />tion. <br />With this background and the additional data generated specif- <br />ically for the present application, Colorado Westmoreland Inc. <br />sets forth in this Part 2.04 a description of the existing, <br />pre-mining environmental resources within the proposed mine <br />plan area and adjacent areas. A number of appendices, such as <br />the BLM Technical Evaluation and Environmental Assessment (see <br />TE/EA Appendix in Volume 9A) are also supplied for convenient <br />reference. <br />(2) No answer required, <br />(a) The permit area can be readily divided into two general <br />land use categories. First, the train to adout area (on <br />the south of Highway 133) as depicted on Map 8-3 in <br />Volume 8 is generally acceptable as cropland, more spe- <br />cifically, orchard land. Historically, this 11 acre <br />area has been used as such and the area immediately <br />surrounding the train to adout is still in orchard pro- <br />duction. <br />Second, the permit area to the North of Highway 133 is <br />rugged mountainous terrain predominantly covered with <br />pinyon-juniper and oak brush (see Vegetation Section <br />2.04.10 for specific discussion of vegetative types) <br />and is generally acceptable as rangeland (see Map 9-1). <br />Because of the low productivity of these vegetative <br />types, livestock grazing is usually short-term. Live- <br />stock is moved to more productive grazing allotments on <br />Federal (U. S. D. A. Forest Service) lands north of the <br />permit area within a few weeks of being brought to the <br />area. The same short-term of grazing usually occurs as <br />livestock is moved during the Fall to lower portions of <br />the permit area to be relocated for [he winter. <br />Revised 08/01/84 <br />Revised 12/26/84 <br />Revised 10/12/86 <br />Revised 10/01/87 <br />2 <br />