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• XII. Post-Mining Land Use A. The Division approves apost-mining land use of undeveloped land for wildlife habitat, with a minor end land use of limited residential use. }QII. Protection of Fish, Wildlife, and Related Environmental Values A. The Division of Wildlife has indicated that the primary impacts from mining along the North Fork of the Gunnison River are increased traffic resulting in road kills and disturbance tQ deer and elk migration, and emission of toxic substances into the river, which degrades the North Fork of the Gunnison River fishery (P.xhibit 10, Bear No. 3 permit revision application). Traffic-related impacts to wildlife will not increase due to mining at the Bear No. 3 Mine. No increase in coal production at the Bear Mine is anticipated; therefore, no increase in mine=related traffic is expected. Traffic on Highway 133 will not be significantly increased as a result of operations at the mine. Runoff from the surface facilities area at the Bear Mine will be muted through a sediment pond. Discharges will meet the effluent limitations of Rule 4.05.2, • m;nim;Tng the mining impacts on the water quality of the North Fork of the Gunnison River. Reclamation of ffie Bear No. 1 and 2 portal and facilities area was completed in 1986. Completion of reclamation work and increased vegetative cover will reduce ffie quantity of runoff generated at the site. No ponds containing hazardous concentrations of toxic-forming materials exist on the permit area. The application does not propose the use of persistent pesticides on the area during surface mining and reclamation operations. No impact on the water quality of the North Fork of the Gunnison River is expected to result from mine-related effluent migrating through the alluvial body underlying the Bear No. 3 facilities. Effluent which enters the river from the facilities area will be diluted to acceptable levels by Ure much larger volume of water in We river. Monitoring data from alluvial wells indicates that no effluent has passed through the alluvium. The northern bald eagle is the only rare or endangered wildlife species inhabiting the study area. Eagles are winter residents of the Nortb Fork Valley. Electric transmission and distribution lines within the permit have been constructed to the specifications of Rule 4.18, to ensure the protection of large raptors (Figure 4, Bear No. 3 revision application). The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reported the existence of a golden eagle nest • in the cliffs above the Bear No. 3 portal prior to original permit issuance. Bear Coal Company conducted a survey and determined that the nest was not active 29