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• acreage amounts to less than two-tenths of a percent of the area contained within the hunger Canyon Drainage (5,085 acres), and one one-hundreth of a percent of the total drainage area of East Salt Creek above the confluence with Hunger Canyon (67,228 acres). Both Hunger and HcClane Canyons (42.7 acres) will only affect six-hundreths of a percent of the drainage area of East Salt Creek. As -indicated-cumulative-impac-t-on-flow-in~6ast-Salt-Creek as a result of the operations at McClane and hunger Canyons will be relatively insignificant. All flows occurring outside of the disturbances will be routed around them and returned to the drainage. Runoff produced from the disturbed areas will be contained in sedimentation ponds for a sufficient enough time to meet NPDES and Alined Land Reclamation effluent standards, and will then be released into the drainage. For the same reasons water quality in East Salt Creek will be minimally af- fected. Because the surface disturbance will consist primarily of road and portal development most of the impact wLll consist of an increase_in suspended sediment concentrations. .The sedimentation.ponds are designed. to reduce the sediment concentration to acceptable levels before release into the streams. The Munger Canyon operation will mine [he same coal zone as the~McClane Canyon mine. For the first permit term the Munger operation when reopened will aot advance into the zone of saturation that is projected by the applicant on ~ drilling information. Neither mine is expected to have a significant impact on ground water during the first permit term. There will be no cumulative ef- fect on any aquifers of regional extent as a result of mining at these loco- - tion. The projected d_evelopme_nt of the_A1cClane Canyon and Hunger Canyon Hine work- ings indicates further impact on ground and. surface water in the future. ,Hun- ger Creek, Buniger Canyon, Stove Cattyon and a portion of the East Salt Creek valley floor will be undermined. Prior to issuance of a permit to mine into these areas it will be necessary to determine the absence or presence of AVF's in these canyons, and ,to~predict_:tbe, effect pf,_mining on, any AVF!s identi-_ fled. These determinations will occur in future permit applications. ' Mining will progress into the projected saturated zone of the coal seam in future permit terms. The recharge area of the Cameo seam at East Salt Creek will also be impacted. In subsequent permits, geologic and alluvial monitor- ing sites will have to be established to adequately monitor the effects of mining on geologic and alluvial ground water quantity and quality. After mining is completed, all portals will be sealed and disturbances will be backfilled, graded, topsoiled and re vegetate d. In this reclaimed situation the hydro log lc characteristics of [he disturbed areas will be restored to nearly pre-Wining conditions. • The assessment of the probable cumulative ing Sn the general area on the hydrologic impacts of balance has all anticipated coal min- been made by C?f[RD, and OS`t and the operations proposed under the application have been designed to prevent da3a~e to the hydrologic balance outside the proposed perm Lt area,