GENERAL31841

• Permit No: M1999002
• IBM Index Class Name: General Documents
• Doc Date: 7/22/1999
• Doc Name: FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT VOLUME 2 APPENDIX L
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• Archive: No

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listed threatened species, and the Parachute penstemon (Penstemon •
debilis), a candidate for listing. BLM will require American Soda
to conduct a pre-construction survey for these species as noted
in the mitigation developed in the Draft EIS, page 4-71.
The conduct and performance of these surveys were made in
consultation with the BLM. A summary of locations of colonies of
PHOB or LECO identified in the four referenced inventories
conducted by WSEC are as follows:
1995 Yankee Gulch Lease survey located a 2.5 acre colony of
PHOB in the NESWNE of section 29 T. 1 S., R. 97 W.(This
location was wrong and correctly plotted in the 1996
survey)
1996 Yankee Gulch Lease survey located three colonies of
PHOB in the S'/z NW'/a of section 29 T. 1 S., R. 97 W. The
2.5 acre colony found in 1995 and two ne4rly found
colonies of 2.3 acres and 6.6 acres.
1998 American Soda survey located two newly found colonies
of LECO. One large colony cov_ring 5.8 acres was
plotted in the survey on the section line: between the
SESE'/a section 17 and NENE'/a section 20, 'I'. 1 S., R 97
W. (verification of this colony by BLM with GPS more
accurately places this colony in NWNE'/a of section 17,
T. 1 S., R. 97 W.) A smaller colony (size: not reported)
was found in the NENW'/a of section 32, T. 1 S., R. 97
W.
1998 White River Electric Assoc. survey located a colony of
PHOB in the approximate SENW1/4 of section 29, T. 1 S.
R. 97 W. and a single individual was locaited in the
approximate NESW1/4 section 29, T. 1 S., R. 97 W. The
PHOB colony was first reported in 1987 in the Status
Report for Physaria obcordata prepared by Steve O'Kane.
With some of the mapping difficulties in this broken terrain and
omission in WSEC's 1996 survey of the PHOB colony reported in '
1997, Rusty Roberts visited most of the reported colonies in July
1998 to verify accurate locations and to spot chec}: WSEC's
surveys for any omissions. The colony locations surnmarized above
with noted corrections are accurate based upon GPS verification.
With the exception of LECO colony plotted on the section line
between section 17 and 20 in WSEC's 1998 American Soda survey
report, the other locations are accurate as depicted in Figure 5
of that report. Rusty also walked all of the ThirtE~en Mile Tongue
depicted in Figure 5 of the subject report and found no
additional colonies of PHOB or LECO that were not reported.
Based upon the WSEC's survey reports and BLM's verifications, two
colonies of PHOB and one colony of LECO could be directly