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Coal Company responded that there is a 17.8 ac/f[ consumptive water loss from evaporation from sediment controls for the disturbed area and another 4.3 ac/ft consumptive water loss from water used for dust control. Therefore, based on the above information, OSM has determined that PR- 03 "may affect /likely to adversely affect" the bonytail. Candidates Yellow-billed cuckoo The Yellow-billed cuckoo, (Coccyzus americanus), is a medium sized bird with a slender, long- tailed profile, slightly down-curved bill, which is blue-black with yellow on the lower half of the bill. Plumage is grayish-brown above and white below, with rufous primary flight feathers. This species occupies tall riparian habitat consisting of cottonwood over story and an under story of dense willow or tamarisk at elevations of less than 6,500 feet above sea level. Suitable or potentially suitable habitat for the yellow-billed cucko does exist along the Colorado River. However, this habitat does not exist on or adjacent to the previously disturbed area covered by PR-03. Therefore, OSM has determined that PR-03 will "not affect" the continued existence of the Yellow-billed cuckoo. DeBeque Phacelia The DeBeque Phacelia (Phncetia submaetica) is an annual forb with stems approximately 1.9 to 14.5 centimeters in length often branched at the base, with elliptic-oblong leaves 0.6 to 1.6 centimeters long that produces small 1 millimeter diameter crowded cream colored flowers with a thinned yellow to purple in May. The DeBeque Phacelia has been identified in /Garfield and Mesa Counties, Colorado at the margins of the Colorado River Valley on alka}ine, barren clay banks and flats in deserts and foothills at elevations of 4,700 feet. A survey for the DeBeque Phacelia was conducted in 1996. While this survey concluded that the DeBeque Phacelia had the potential to occur on the Roadside North and South Portals permit area, none were observed. Suitable or potentially suitable habitat does not exist, however, on the previously disturbed area covered by PR-03. Therefore, OSM has determined that PR-03 will "not affect" the continued existence of the DeBeque Phacelia. Determinations of Effect Based on the above information, OSM has determined that the change in the post mining land use proposed in PR-03 at Snowcap Coal Company's Roadside North and South Portals mine "may affect /likely to adversely affect" the continued existence of the Colorado pikeminnow, humpback chub, razorback sucker and bonytail. Therefore, OSM is requesting the initiation of formal section 7 consultation for the net annual water depletion of 22.1 ac/ft from the ilpper Colorado River Basin.