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BRL is located in the eight (8) binders which comprise the Bowie No. 2 Mine permit application <br />document. <br />Land Use and Cultural and Historic Resource Information - <br />Detailed information regazding land uses and cultural and historic resources within the Bowie <br />No. 2 Mine permit area is provided in Sections 2.04.3 and 2.04.4 of the permit application <br />document. A brief summary is provided below, and this summary is derived from the <br />information presented within Sections 2.04.3 and 2.04.4 of the permit application document. <br />The Bowie No. 2 Mine permit and adjacent azea includes a mix of land uses. The lower e}evation <br />azeas are used for pasture, orchazds, residential and industrial uses. Approval of Permit Revision <br />No. 6 added hayland to the list of permit azea land uses. Agricultural uses aze served by irrigation <br />water. The higher elevations within and adjacent to the permit area support some rangeland use, <br />and the azeas offer abundant wildlife habitat. The lands also support various recreational uses. <br />Historic and current mining operations also exist in the general area. The Bowie No. I Mine is <br />located west of the Bowie No. 2 Mine permit azea. The Terror Creek Loadout is located to the <br />south of the Bowie No. 2 Mine permit area. The reclaimed new Blue Ribbon Mine is also located <br />neazby along Hubbazd Creek, as are outlying facilities associated with the Sanborn Creek Mine. <br />Historic coal mines located within and adjacent to the Bowie No. 2 permit boundary include the <br />King Mine, the Gelwick Mine, the old Blue Ribbon Mine and the Farmers' Mine. The old <br />townsite of Bowie is located within the Bowie No. 2 permit azea. There are no known historical <br />sites that are eligible to the National Register in the azeas to be disturbed under Permit Revision <br />No. 6. Three historic sites, not associated with important persons or events in history and not <br />eligible to the National Register, were determined by the CHS to not have much integrity due to <br />deterioration and alteration. As requested by the Colorado Historical Society, BRL has <br />committed to stop construction and evaluate the situation appropriately, in consultation with the <br />Colorado Historical Society, if previously unlrnown cultural resources should be discovered. <br />Geology - <br />Detailed information regarding the geology in and adjacent to the Bowie No. 2 Mine permit area <br />is provided in Sections 2.04.5 and 2.04.6 of the permit application document: A brief summary is <br />provided below, and this summary is derived from the information presented within Sections <br />2.04.5 and 2.04.6 of the permit application. <br />The Bowie No. 2 Mine permit area is located in the North Fork Valley of the Gunnison River, <br />neaz the western mazgin of the Colorado portion of the Central Rocky Mountains. The elevation <br />of the pemut azea ranges from about 6,000 feet above sea level to over 8,000 feet above sea <br />level. The general azea is situated along the southern flank of the Piceance Creek structural and <br />sedimentary basin. The azea is bounded by Larimide structural and physiographic features on the <br />following sides: West Elk and Elk Mountains on the east; the Gunnison Uplift on the south; the <br />Uncompahgre Uplift on the west-southwest; and the Grand Mesa-Piceance Basin on the north. <br />12 <br />