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DRMS Permit Index
Permit No
M1999002
IBM Index Class Name
General Documents
Doc Date
1/19/1999
Doc Name
DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT CHAPTER 3
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CNAPTERTHREE Affected Environment <br />agricultural access road along the hay meadows on Piceance Creek, north of Horse Draw and <br />south of the fenceline near the northern boundary. <br />CDOW owns and operates the Square S Ranch State Wildlife Area, which is located along <br />Piceance Creek, adjacent to the Piceance Site. CDOW uses the ranch for wildlife habitat and hay <br />production. There is also a small picnic and camping area located along the Piceance Creek <br />Road on the Squaze S Ranch. The facility is used predominantly in the fall by hunters; use is <br />minimal at other times of the yeaz. <br />The BLM manages the Ryan Gulch and Dudley Bluffs ACECs (Figure 3.11-1). These ACECs <br />were established by the BLM for the protection of two federally threatened plant species, the <br />Dudley Bluffs twinpod (Physario obcordata) and the Dudley Bluffs bladderpod (Lesquerela <br />congesto). Most of the Ryan Gulch ACEC is located south of the Piceance Site, however, the it <br />overlaps the Piceance Site in the northern half of Section 29 T1S R97W (approximately 240 <br />acres). The Dudley Bluffs ACEC is located south of the Piceance Site and does :not overlap <br />project boundaries. <br />The Piceance Site is located within the Square S grazing allotment. This allotment has <br />approximately 64,050 acres of public land, has an authorized use of 2,451 Anim~il Unit Months <br />(AUMs), and runs cattle between May 1 and November 30. <br />3.12.3 Pipeline <br />The 43.4 mile long pipeline corridor starts at the Piceance Site neaz the center of Section 19 TI S <br />R97W in Rio Blanco County, and ends at the Parachute Site in the southeast comer of Section 34 <br />T6S R96W in Garfield County. Approximately 24.4 miles of the pipeline ROW would be in Rio <br />Blanco County, 18.8 miles in Garfield County. The ROW would cross 17.7 miles of BLM land <br />and 25.5 miles of private land. All of the ROW in Garfield County would be located on private <br />land. The proposed pipeline would parallel existing pipeline ROWS except bet~n~een MP 0-6.4 <br />and between MP 31.6 and 38.7. <br />In Rio Blanco County the entire proposed route would be in areas mapped with agricultural <br />zoning. As mentioned previously, an industrial use such as a pipeline corridor could be allowed <br />by a special use permit. In Garfield County the pipeline corridor would also be located on ]ands <br />mapped with agriculture zoning. As in Rio Blanco, a special use permit would b.: required. <br />Existing land use on BLM lands include wildlife habitat, dispersed recreation (primarily <br />hunting), livestock grazing, and utility ROWS. The pipeline would cross seven different grazing <br />allotments between the Piceance Site and the Pazachute Site. Depending on the allotment, cattle <br />or sheep are on the allotments during the spring and/or summer months except fo r the Hatch <br />Allotment which is stocked from November 1 to November 30. On private lands, land use is <br />primarily agricultural, including livestock grazing and hay production, and oil an~i gas and <br />mineral development. As the pipeline leaves the Piceance Site and crosses Picea~tce Creek at <br />MP 1.8, a ranch house is located about one mile south of the pipeline. At MP 13.8, as the <br />pipeline again crosses Piceance Creek, another ranch house and buildings are loc~ited about 0.25 <br />miles to the east of the corridor. In this azea the pipeline would parallel existing pipeline <br />corridors as it crosses the hay fields along Piceance Creek. Along Parachute Creek, at the <br />southern end of the pipeline, there aze approximately 6-8 homes along the creek between Davis <br />3-50 Land Use and Recreation <br />
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