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Finding of No Significant Impact <br />The technical analysis and environmental assessment identify certain env iron-. <br />mental impacts that could be caused by continued mining of the McClane Canyon' <br />Mine. Impacts from subsidence, if any, appear to be mitigatable or avoid- <br />able. Past abandoned mining in the general area reveals very little subsid- <br />ence. Possible adverse impacts to the alluvial valley floors in East Salt <br />Creek are considered by careful analysis to be minor in nature and will be . <br />mitigated as revealed by the Technical Analysis and Environmental Assessment. <br />Other potential impacts identified by the Office of Surface Mining (OSM) would <br />be appropriately mitigated by the environmental protection measures (Special <br />Stipulations) specified in the mining plan. <br />Based on the evaluation of impacts in the Technical Analysis prepared by the <br />Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Division, and the Environmental Assessment <br />prepared by OSM, the concurrence prepared by the Bureau of Land Management <br />(See Concurrence Section), the U.S.G.S. technical assessment on the mine plan <br />(See Concurrence Section), and the BLM Environmental Impact Statement entitled <br />West-Central Colorado Coal issued February 1979, I find that no significant <br />impacts to the human environment would result from permitting of this opera- <br />tion. Preparation of an environmental impact statement (EIS) under the <br />National Environment Policy Act (NEPA), 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq., is, therefore, <br />not required. <br />~ ~-~-~~. <br />Allen D. Klein <br />Administrator <br />Western Technical Center <br /> <br />