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year preceding August 3, 1977 and at that time was located witn;n or adjacent to alluvial valley floors, the proposed surface coal mining operations .could: (a) Not interrupt, discontinue, or preclutle farming on alluvial valley floors that are irrigated or naturally suDirrigated, excluding undeveluped range lands which are not significant to farming en said alluvial valley floors and tnose lands uaen which the boartl has found t~tiat the farm- ing wnich will be interrupted, ~iscontinuetl, cr precluded is of such small acreage as td oe of negligible impact on said land's agricultural prDCucticn; cr (8) I~ot materially damage the quantity or quality of surface wooer or groundwater systems tnat supply the alluvial valley floors described in sub-subparagrapn (a) of this subparagraph (I). f) io the extent that the applicant proposes td extract coal Dy surface methccsr and where the private min- eral estate has been severed from the private surface estate. the applicant has Submitted [C the division: (I) the written consent of the surface owner to the ex*_raction df coal Dy surface coal mining; or ()I) A conveyance that expressly .;rants or reserves [he right to extract the coal cy surface coal miring, or. if the conveyanca does not expressly grant the right to ex *_ract coal by surface coal mining, other legal documenta- tion supporting aprlicant's risht of entry in accordance wrth state law. (?~otning in the aermit shall be construed as an adjudication of any property right.) g) Subject to valid rights existing as of august 3, 1977, and with the further exception of [hose surface co31 mining operations which were in existence on august 3. 1977. the application: (I) Does not include any )ands within the boundaries of units of the national park system, the national wildlife refuge systems, [he national system of trails, the national .wilderness preservation systemr the wild and scenic rivers system, including study rivers designated under said act. and national recreation areas designated oy act of the United States longress; (II) Does not include any federal lands within the boundaries of any national forESt, except to the extent that the Secretary of the United States Department of agri- culture has found that there are no significant recreational. cimoer, economic, or other values which may be incompatible with such surface mining operationsr and: (a) Surface operations ono impacts are incident to an underground coal mine; or (~) Wnere the Secretary of the United States Depart- ment Of AgriCUltUre has tlet2rmined. with respect t0 lands in national forests whicn do not have significant forest Cover, that surface minin-y i5 in compliance with the "Multi- ple-Use Sustained-yield Act of 1900", as amerded. the "Fed- aral Coal Leasing amendments wct of 1975". as amended. the °fdacional Forest Management act of 1976". as amended. and the provisions of article 33 cf title 34, C.R.S. 1973. -2-