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year preceding August 3, 1977 and ac that time was located witnin or adjacent to alluvial valley floors, the proposed surface coal mining operations would: (A) Not interrupt, discontinue. or preclude farming on alluvial valley floors that are irrigated or naturally subirrigacetl, excluding undeveloped range lands which are not significant to farming on said alluvial valley floors and tnose lands upon which the Doartl has found that the farm- ing wnich will b2 interrupted, discontinued, or precluded is of such small acreage as to oe of negligible imoact on saitl land's agricultural production; or (3) root materially damage [he quantity or quality of surface water or grountlwater systems that supply the alluvial valley floors described in sus-subparagrapn (A) of this subparagraph (I). f) To the extent that the applicant proposes to extract coal by surface methcds, and where the private min- eral estate has been severed from the private surface estate. the applicant has submitted [o the tl;vision: (I) The written consent of the surface owner to the extraction of coal Dy surface coal mining; or (fI) A conveyance that expressly grants or reserves the right to extract the coal by surface coal mining, or, if the conveyance does not expressly grant the right to extract coal by surface coal mining, other legal tlocumenta- tion supporting applicant's right of entry in accordance with state law. (~~othing in the permit shall be ccnstrued as an adjudication of any prcperty right.) g) Subject to valid 3, 1777, and with the further coal mining operations which 1977. the application: rights existing as of August exception of those surface were in existence on August 3. (f) Does not include any lands within the boundaries of units of the national park system, the national wildlife refuge systems, the national system of trails, the national wilderness preservation system, the wild and scenic rivers system, includ;ng study rivers designated under said act. and national recreation areas designated oy act of the United States Congress; (II) Does not include any federal lands within the boundaries of any national forest, except to the extent tndt the Secretary of the United States Cepartment of Agri- culture has found that there are no significant recreational. timoer. economics or ocher values which may be inccmpatible with such surface mining operations. and: (A) Surface operations ana impacts are inc;dent to an underground ccal mine; or (~) Nhere the Secretary of the United States Depart- ment of Agriculture has deterrtined, with respect to lands in national forests which do not nave significant forest cover, that surface mining is in compliance witn the "Multi- ple-Use Sustained-yield Act of 19oo"r as amended. the "Fed- ~ral Coal Leasing Amentlments mac[ of 1975", as amended. the "fJa[ional Forest Mana5em2nt act of L9T6", as amended. and the provisions of article 33 cf title 34, C.R.S. 1973. -2-