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<br />Cumulative Imvacts <br />This alternative will provide an additional 2.1 million tons of coal from <br />the lease application tract and .3 million tons from lease C-023703 to the <br />coal already being produced from the Deserado Hine. This additional coal <br />will provide an equivalent of 2 years to the life of the existing mine. <br />An additional 15 acres of surface disturbance would be added to the <br />projected 1,000 acres being disturbed by the existing mine. This would be <br />a 1.5 percent increase in surface disturbance. <br />B. No Action <br />The following resources will not be impacted as a result of the no action <br />alternative. <br />Minerals <br />Oil and Gas <br />Locatable <br />Saleable <br />Hydrology <br />Soils <br />Vegetation <br />Range-Domestic Livestock <br />Wildlife <br />Cultural <br />Visual <br />Paleontological <br />Threatened and Endangered Species <br />Floodplains and Wetlands <br />Wilderness and Special Designations <br />Lands <br />Recreation <br />Minerals <br />Coal <br />The only resource to be impacted by the no action alternative is <br />coal. If the coal within the lease application boundary is not <br />recovered as mining proceeds within the Deserado LMU and according to <br />that schedule, the coal will be bypassed and will not be <br />recoverable. Thus the 2 million tons of reserves within the lease <br />application area will be lost from future use. <br />In addition to this loss, .3 million tons of coal will not be <br />recovered from Lease number C-023703. <br />Social/Economic <br />The no action alternative would result in not issuing the emergency bypass <br />lease. This would remove the potential of extending the mine life by 2 <br />years. The social and economic impacts would remain the same as those <br />stated for the existing Deserado Nine. <br /> <br />19 <br />