GENERAL38094

• Permit No: C1981038
• IBM Index Class Name: General Documents
• Doc Date: 9/25/1981
• Doc Name: MINING PERMIT ‎(Dated 9/24/81 to 9/24/86)‎
• Permit Index Doc Type: PERMIT LEGAL DOCUMENT
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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year preceding 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 that are irrigated or naturally
subirrigated. excluding undeveloped range lands which are
not significant to farming on said alluvial valley floors
and those lands upon which the board has found that the farm-
ing wnich will b2 interrupted. Discontinued. cr precluded
is of such small acreage as to oe of ney-ligible impact on
said land's agricultural 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-subparagrapn (a) of
this subparagraph (I).
f) To the extent that the applicant proposes to
extract coal by surface methcdss and where the private min-
eral estate has been severed from the private surface estate.
the applicant has submitted to the division:
(I) the written consent of the surface owner to the
extraction 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
extract coal by surface coal mining, other legal documenta-
tion supporting applicant's r;ght of entry in accordance
with state law. (Nothing in the permit shall be construed
as an adjudication of any property right.)
g) Subject to valid rights existing as of august
3, 1977s and with the further exception of those surface
coal mining operations which were in existence on August 3,
1977, the application:
(I) 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
w;lderness preservation system. the wild and 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 lantls within the
boundaries of any national forest, except to the axtent
that the Secretary of the United States Department of agri-
culture has found that there are no significant recreational.
timoer, economics or other values which may be inccmFatiblz
with such sDrFdCe mining operations. and:
(a) Surface operations and impacts are incident to
an underground coal mine; or
(B) where the Secretary of the United States Cepart-
ment of agriculture has determined, with respect to lands
in ndtiOndl fOre5t5 which d0 nOt have Significant fOr25t
cover, that surface mining is in compliance witn the "Multi-
ple-Use Sustained-Yield act of 1960", as amer.deD, the "Fed-
~ral Coal leasing amendments act of 1975", as amended. the
"NdtlOndl Forest Mdndgem2nt .1Ct Of L976". d5 amended, and
the provisions of article 33 cf title 34. C.R.S. 1973.
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