GENERAL38637

• Permit No: C1981010
• IBM Index Class Name: General Documents
• Doc Date: 5/13/1998
• Doc Name: Proposed Decision & Findings of Compliance for PR4 & RN3
• Permit Index Doc Type: FINDINGS
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

permit azea. Please refer to section B. III. of this document for additional discussion of the
probable hydrologic consequences of the Trapper Mine (2.07.6(2)(c)). The applicant
projects that under aworst-case scenario its mining activities could increase total dissolved
solids in the Yampa River by approximately one-tenth of one percent (page 4-237a of permit
document).
4. The Division finds that the permit area is, subject to valid rights existing as of August 3,
1977, not within:
a) An area designated unsuitable for surface coal mining operations (:?.07.6(2)(d)(i));
b) An area under study for designation as unsuitable for surface coal mining operations
(2.07.6(2)(d)(ii));
c) The boundaries of the National Park System, the National Wildlife Refuge System, the
National System of Trails, the National Wilderness Preservation System, the Wild and
Scenic Rivers System including rivers under study for designation, and National
Recreation Areas (2.07.6(2)(d)(iii)(A));
d) Three hundred feet of any public building, school, church, commuttity or institutional
building, or public pazk (2.07.6(2)(d)(iii)(B));
e) One hundred feet of a cemetery (2.07.6(2)(d)(iii)(C));
f) The boundaries of any National Forest unless the required finding of compatibility has
been made by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. (2.07.6(2)(d)(iii)(D));
g) One hundred feet of the outside right-of--way line of any public road except where mine
access or haul roads join such line, and excepting any roads for which the necessary
approvals have been received, notices published, public hearing opportunities provided,
and written findings made (2.07.6(2)(d)(iv));
h) Three hundred feet of an occupied dwelling. (2.07.6(2)(d)(v)).
5. On the basis of information submitted by Trapper Mine in the form of cultural and
archeological surveys of the entire petmit area, the Division finds that subject to valid
existing rights as of August 3,1977, the mining operation will not adv.°rsely affect any
publicly owned park or place listed on or eligible for listing in the National Register of
Historic Places as determined by the State Historic Preservation Offic<:. Sites SMF290/949
and SMF948 are eligible to the National Register of Historic Places , z.lthough neither site is
proposed to be disturbed by mining operations. A letter from James E. Hartman, the State
Historic Preservation Officer dated July 20,1992 stated that there were two sites located
within the mine boundary that were eligible. However, phone contact with James Green of
the State Historic Preservation office on July 27,1992 indicated that both of the sites had no
significance. (2.07.6(2)(e)(i)).
Trapper Mine 16 ~ May 13, 1998