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BL~1/USES I~700-322-7261 RUG ~ 93 10 40 No.003 P.02 <br />~ `i <br />9NITBD BTATEB DBPARTMEN7! OF TBB INTBAIOA <br />BVREAU OF LAND N1INAOANANT <br />VNCONFA80RE BASIN AE80URCi AREA <br />$505 600TH TONN6END <br />NONTROSE, COLORADO 61401 <br />Ia Reply Aefer To <br />6640 (CO-034) <br />1m10AANDUN C-37210 i C-53356 6 T ~ggZ <br />,. <br />TOi Aotiag State supervisor, U.B.,Fleb sad Nildlife Service, <br />Nesters Colorado suboffioe, S:i9 ]5 3/9 Auad, Orand Junotioa, <br />Co. 61505-i199 <br />FAONt Aroa Nanager, Buresu of Land I!lanagement, Oncompahgro Basin <br />Resource Area, 2505 B. Towneeind Avs., Montrose, CO 61401 <br />BUBJECT~ Cypru• Ninesale Ino. Coal Lea~ao Application (COC-53356) and <br />Coal Leaes (COC-37310) modifi~:atlon request. <br />The Onoompahgre Basin Resource Ares hee r~aeaived from Cyprus Minerals Ino. <br />a request to modify existing coal leae• q~-37110 by adding 40 acres on the <br />west eider end s new lease application ( x-53356) for SY1.76 acra^ <br />adfaeent to COC-37Y10 on the north Bide (1>ea attached map). <br />No susfaca disturbance will occur.on eitlu~~r ^ite, and no water depletion is <br />anticipated. Both erase will be incorporl~ted Into the existing mine plan <br />and will bs aeoeeeed and servioed under q~~ound through the oxistinq portal. <br />The overburden thieknos• will be in excess of 1000 feet and minimum <br />subsidence ie expected. on the lease app'llcatlon area the surface is <br />privets and the minsral• era BLN managed.' On the modifiontion area 30 0! <br />tM d0 acres are BLN surface and 10 scree era private with 8LN minerals. <br />Ths unsuitnDllity criteria for mining, 43iCFR 3461.5, ha• been spplied to <br />both ares• and Baction 7 consultation ocourred in oonjunction with the <br />OINTA-BOUTHNEBTERN UTAH COAL R80ION SIB in 1982. etipulatione regarding <br />Threatened s Endangered species that reeu.'lted from this process will also <br />be applied to these aubiect asses in addition to any changs^ that may <br />result from updated consultation. Therefi>re, we conolude "no effect" will <br />result from Chia aotion. <br />We did not find a species flat that was sj~ecifie to thi• area. ws ere <br />•ubmiitinq the following annotated list o1! sndnngered, threntened, <br />eandidste, and proposed species thst could occur on thew tracts or in Lhe <br />region for your review, oommente, and/or i:oncurrencet <br />Bald eagles, (9slteaetue Iaucrooephalua), ICNDANOERED: <br />Ara known to winter in the region. BLM inventories conducted in 1976 <br />through 1960, and monitoring fllghtu conducted through 1985, did not <br />locate any roost or neat sites, or i~rens of winter concentration on <br />or near the review area. Use levelii of the NortA Pork of the <br />Ounnieon River in this region were l.ow density, and only sporadic <br />winter use occurred on the uplande.~ Ths possibility exists !or <br />Heating to occur along the North Fork of the eunnison River. No <br />sites are known to exist on thane u~eae. <br />Peeegrine lalcoa, (r~loo peregr~nus), 8ND)~ltOERBDt <br />Ve9 has not been recorded on these tireae. some inoidental use is <br />likely, eepeo1a11Y during migration: The North Pork region, <br />including the review area, has aome'potentinl as hsbltat. peregrina• <br />