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For the Elk Creek Mine, the applicant conducted an inventory of "all structures and <br />renewable resource lands which exist within the proposed permit and adjacent area" as <br />required by Rule 2.05.6(6)(a). The determination was that no such structures or features <br />exist within the azea to be undermined by the Ells Creek activity. Therefore, no further <br />action is required. The operator, though, submitted a subsidence evaluation for the area. <br />In response to a stipulation on the federal coal lease, the operator will conduct a detailed <br />survey for previously unidentified water resources. If any such resources aze identified <br />and could be impacted by subsidence, the operator will submit a plan for replacement to <br />the US Bureau of Land Management and/or the US Forest Service. <br />XI. Operations on Alluvial Valley Floors <br />The Division has determined that an alluvial valley floor exists in an adjacent area. <br />Therefore, the following findings aze in order for the alluvial valley floor that is <br />located on the North Fork of the Gunnison River downstream from the mine site. <br />The Division fords that activities proposed by the applicant will not interrupt, <br />discontinue, or preclude farming on the alluvial valley floors that aze irrigated or <br />naturally subirrigated (4.24.3(1)). <br />The proposed activities will not materially damage the quantity or quality of water in <br />the surface or ground water system described above (4.24.3(3) and 2.06.8(5)(a)(ii)). <br />Coal mining and reclamation operations will be conducted to preserve the essential <br />hydrologic functions of alluvial valley floors outside the permit area throughout the <br />mining and reclamation process (4.24.2). <br />c:~ns97~sanbom~RN03 Sanborn Findings.doc <br />27 <br />