GENERAL32684

• Permit No: C1981037
• IBM Index Class Name: General Documents
• Doc Date: 12/9/1982
• Doc Name: MINING PERMIT ‎(Dated 12/3/82 to 12/3/87)‎
• Permit Index Doc Type: PERMIT LEGAL DOCUMENT
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

year preceding August 3, 1977 and at that time was located
witnin or adjacent to alluvial valley Floorsr the prcposec
surface coal mining operations would:
(a) t`ot interrupt. discontinue, or preclude farming
on alluvial valley floors that are irrigated or naturally
subirrigaced, excluding undeveloped range lands which are
not si~lnificant to farming en said alluvial valley floors
and tnose lands open which the ~oard has found that the farm-
ing wn;ch will b2 interrupted, uiscontinued, cr precluded
;s Of Such Small dCredg? d5 t0 oe Of negligible imDdCt On
said land's agricultural production; or
(8) toot materially damage the quantity or quality
of surface water or groundwater systems toot supply the
alluvial vailey floors described in sum-subparagrapn (a) of
this subparagraph (I).
f) io the extent that the applicant proposes to
extract coal by surface methcdsr and where the private min-
eral ?state has been severed from the private surface estate,
the applicant has submitted to the division:
(I) The written consent of the surface owner to the
extraction of coal by surface coal mining; or
(II) A conveyance that expressly ;rants or reserves
the right to extract the teal cy surface coal miring, or,
if the conveyance does not expressly grant the right to
extract coal by surface coal mining, other legal documenta-
tion supporting applicant's risht of entry in accordance
with SLdt2 law. (.yothing in the permit Shrill b2 CCnStrueC
as an adjudication df any property right.)
g) Sub3ect to valid
3. 1977, dr•d with the further
coal mining operations which
1977, the application:
rights existing as of august
exception of these surface
were in existence on august 3.
(I) Coes not include any lands within the boundaries
of units of the national park system, the national wi)dl;fe
refuges systems, the nationai system of trails, the national
wilderness preservation systemr the wild and scenic rivers
system. including study rivers designated under sa;d act.
and national recreation areas designated by act of the United
States Congress;
(II) Coes not include any federal lands within the
boundaries of any national forest, except to the extent
toot Lne Secretary of the United States Cepartment of agri-
culture has found that there are no significant recreational.
ClmOer, ECOnOmiC, Or OLher values which may be ;nCCmpdtibl?
with such surface mining operations, and:
(a) Surface operations ono impacts are inc;dent to
an underground coal mine; or
(~) mere the Secretary of the United States Cepart-
mant of agriculture has determined. with respect to Janos
in national forests whim do not have significant forest
cove n that surface mir.iny is in compliance with the "NUlti-
ple-Use Sustained-yield act of 19b0". as amended. the "Fed-
eral Coal L?a5ing amendments pct cf 1975". as amended. the
"National sorest ManaSement act of 1976", as amended. and
the provisions of article 33 cf title 34. C.R.S. 1973.
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