GENERAL32611

• Permit No: C1982055
• IBM Index Class Name: General Documents
• Doc Date: 5/1/1993
• Doc Name: Proposed Decision & Findings of Compliance for RN2
• Permit Index Doc Type: FINDINGS
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

XIII
XIV

Protection of Fish, Wildlife and Related Environmental Values
1. No specific approvals have been granted.
Protection of Underground Mining
No specific approvals have been granted.
XV
Subsidence Control
No specific approvals have been granted.
XVI
Concurrent Surface and Underground Mining
No specific approvals have been granted.
XVII
Operations on Alluvial Valley Floors
The Division has determined that an alluvial valley floor exists
within the affected or adjacent area. Therefore, the following
findings are in order for the alluvial valley floor known as the
Raton Creek AVF located on Raton Creek west of the mine site.
The Division finds that activities proposed by the applicant will
not interrupt, discontinue, or preclude farming on the alluvial
valley floors that are irrigated or naturally subirrigated
(4.24.3(1)).
Except for undeveloped rangelands which are not significant to
farming (4.24.3(1)) and 2.06.8(5>(a)(i>).
AND
The proposed activities will not materially damage the quantity or
quality of water in the surface or ground water system described
above (4.24.3(3) and 2.06.8(5)(a)(ii)).
AND
The proposed activities will comply with the requirements of the
Act and the Regulations with respect to alluvial valley floors
(2.06.8(5)(a>(iii)).
Therefore the operations within a specific geographic area may
continue despite their proximity to an alluvial valley floor.
Reclamation operations will be conducted to preserve the essential
hydrologic functions of alluvial valley floors outside the permit
area and to reestablish the essential hydrologic functions of
alluvial valley floors within the affected area throughout the
mining and reclamation process (4.24.2).
XVIII
Operations on Prime Farmland
No specific approvals have been granted.
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