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4 <br />Attributes common to the Piceance and Parachute sites <br />Mining and processing energy will be provided by on-site natural <br />gas-fired boilers at both sites. <br />Electrical power will be supplied to the Parachute site by an <br />existing transmission line in the Parachute Creek valley. Power <br />to the Piceance site would be provided by a new wooden tower 138- <br />kV transmission line that would roughly parallel tyre proposed <br />pipeline alignment from the Magnolia compressor stations west to <br />the Piceance processing facilities (Figures 2-la arrd 2-lb). Once <br />in the Piceance well field, power would be distributed via 15-kV <br />lines on standard single cross-arm structures. <br />To minimize the risk of electrocution, all electrical <br />transmission facilities accessible to raptors would be <br />constructed according to standards found in the Raptor Research <br />Foundation's Suggested Practices for Raptor Protection on Power <br />Lines (Avian Power Line Interaction Committee 1996). This <br />committed mitigation measure appears in the attached Wildlife <br />Mitigation Plan. <br />Species Accounts <br />These assessments conform to the species appearing in the Draft <br />EIS. Phone discussions with Mr. Terry Ireland of your staff in <br />mid-April confirmed the adequacy of this list. <br />The following discussions refer to the draft EIS analysis where <br />appropriate; in some cases, additional detail or supplemental <br />information is provided with which to assess impacts. Chapter 3, <br />Affected Environment (pp 3-40 to 3-44) discusses gc~neral <br />characteristics and habitats of special status species associated <br />with the project. Similarly, Chapter 4, Environmental <br />Consequences (pp. 4-60 to 4-71) deals with anticip<rted impacts' to <br />this group of species. <br />southwest willow flycatcher: The northern distribution litr~it of <br />E.t.extimas has been defined as the Colorado River. Potential <br />willow flycatcher habitat (i.e. woody riparian cor:=idors) along <br />Parachute Creek would, by definition, be inhabited by <br />E.t.adastus. <br />Me~canspotted owl: We are aware of only two records of single owls <br />in northwest Colorado or northeast Utah: a territorial, but <br />unpaired male in Dinosaur National Monument, CO (summers of 1996 <br />and 1997), and 10 miles or so into Utah along the upper Book <br />Cliffs (September 1958); there are no records from this Resource <br />Area or the Roan Plateau. The BLM's Glenwood Springs Resource <br />Area Oil and Gas Leasing and Development Supplemen~.al EIS (Draft, <br />June 1998) relates that habitats ostensibly suitable for spotted <br />