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-49- Stipulation No. 34 MINIMIZATION OF WILDLIFE DISTURBANCE ON THE LIGHT USE ROAD WHICH RUNS BETWEEN OVWM AND THE VENTILATION SHAFT/WATER STORAGE TANK BENCH WILL BE ACCOMPLISHED BY: A) CLOSING ROAD TO PUBLIC USE: B) LIMITING TRAVEL FOR ROUTINE MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES TO BETWEEN 10 AM AND 2 PM DURING DECEMBER, JANUARY, MARCH AND APRIL WHEN BIG GAME ANIMALS ARE PRESENT. All concerns relating to fish and wildlife which were raised by the Division and D.O.W. have been resolved, and the proposed operation is in compliance. XIII. PRIME FARMLAND (2.04.12, 2.06.6, 4.25) Information pertaining to prime farmland may be found on pages 88 and 89 of Section 2,04 and in the Prime Farmland Appendix of Volume 9A. The Division has previously made a negative determination pertaining to the presence of prime farmland at this site. The basis of this determination has been letters from the Soil Conservation Society specifying there are no prime farmland mapping units within the permit area. The Division has not received aRy information causing a change to this previous determination. Therefore, the Division reaffirms a negative determination pertaining to the presence of prime farmland within the permit area. The operation is in compliance with the requirements of this section. XIV. OPERATIONS DESCRIPTION (2.05.2, 2.05.3(1), 2.05.3(2), 4.01) The operations plan for the Orchard Valley mine is presented on pages 1-57, Section 2.05 of the application. The mine planning appendix is found in Volume 2. Stability analyses are documented in Yolumes 6 and 6A, and haul road documentation is located in Volume 8. Orchard Valley is mined in a room and pillar arrangement utilizing continuous miners. The mine plan calls for eventual pillar recovery throughout the mine except in BLM buffer zones below creeks and alluvial-colluvial deposits and below impoundments with water rights that are underlain by less than 800 feet of overburden. CWI estimates that there are over 37 million tons to recoverable reserves, and 8.3 million have been mined to date. The current mine plan shows the extraction of 300,000 - 500,000 tons per year for the next five years. The information presented was sufficient to satisfy the requirements of this section. All concerns pertaining to the operations description have been resolved and the proposed operation is in compliance.