GENERAL33511

• Permit No: C1980007
• IBM Index Class Name: General Documents
• Doc Date: 7/31/1981
• Doc Name: MINING PERMIT ‎(Dated 7/31/81 to 7/31/86)‎
• Permit Index Doc Type: PERMIT LEGAL DOCUMENT
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

year precetling august 3, 1977 and at that time was located
~witnin or adjacent to alluvial valley floorsr the proposed
surface coal mining operations would:
(a) Not interrupt, discontinue, or preclude farming
on alluvial valley floors gnat are irr;gated or naturally
subirrigdted. excluding undeveloped range lands which are
not significant to Far.ring on said alluvial valley floors
dnd tnOSe lands upon which the board hd5 fOUnd that the farm-
ing wnich will be interrupteC, u;scontinued. cr precludetl
is of such small acreage as to be of negligible ;moact on
said land's ayriculturdl production; or
(B) Not materially damage the quantity or quality
of surface water or groundwater systems that supply the
alluvial valley floors described in sub-sub;;ara•;r3pn (a) of
this Subparagraph (I).
f) To the extent that the applicant proposes to
extract coal oy surface methcds, and where the private m;n-
eral estate has been severed from the private surface estate.
the applicant has submittetl to the division:
(I) The written cOnSent of the surface owner to the
ex*_raction of coal by surface coal mining; or
(II) 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
eXtrdCt COdI by surfdCe COdI Yining, Other legal dOCUmenLd-
tion supporting applicant's right of entry in accordance
with state law. (Nothing in the permit shall be ccnstrued
as an adjudication of any property right.)
g) Subject to valid
3, 1977, and with the Further
Coal mining operations which
1977, the application:
rights existing as of August
exception Of those sUrfdCe
were in existence on august 3.
(I) Does not include any lands within the boundaries
of units of the nat;onal park system, the national wildlife
refuge systems, the national system of trails, the national
wilderness areservation system, the wild ono scenic rivers
system, including 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 [he
boundaries of any national forest, except to the dxcent
that the Secretary of the United States Cepartment of Agri-
culture has found that there are no significant recreaticnal.
timoer. economic, or other values which may be inccmpat;bl?
with such surface mininy operations, and:
(a) Surface operations ono impacts are incident to
an underground coal mine; or
(9) where the Secretary of the United States Depart-
ment of agriculture has determined. with respect to Janos
in national forests which do not have significant forest
cover, that surface minin-y is in compliance witn the "Multi-
ple-Use Sustained-Yield act of L960". as amerded, the "Fed-
~ral COaI Leasing amendments act of 1975", as amended, the
"National Forest Management act of t976". as amended. and
the provisions of article 33 of title 34, C.R.S. 1Q73.
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