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' <br />Pikeview Quarry Environmental Assessment Page 6 <br /> <br />and Evaluation (RARE I). In 1979, the Forest Service completed RARE II, a more <br />extensive national inventory of roadless azeas. <br />'Those regulations included: (1) road construction prohibitions (except: to protect , <br />health and safety threatened by a catastrophic event; to conduct environmental cleanup; for <br />valid existing rights and to prevent irreparable resource damage by an existing road); (2) <br />procedures to evaluate the importance of roadless characteristicsand to determine whether ' <br />and how to protect roadless chazacteristics; and (3) adjournment of the decision on whetht.r <br />to prohibit new road construction in inventoried roadless areas on the Tongass National <br />Forest untiif the 5-year forest plan review scheduled for April 2004. , <br />On Iviay 4, 2001 the current administration decided to let stand the Clinton <br />administration regulation protecting 60 million acres of national forest from logging and <br />road construction, but with the intention of reopening the rule-making process for possible <br />significant changes in the future. <br />The proposed project would not be potentially affected by the roadless initiative. The , <br />Pike and S:m Isabel National Forest Inventoried Roadless Areas excludes the proposed <br />project site from the RARE II areas. ' <br />1.6 Scope of This Environmental Assessment <br />The public involvement process for the proposed layback of the Pikeview Quarry was ' <br />launched by the applicant through a partnership with the Colorado Mountain Reclamation <br />Foundation (CMRF). <br />The CMRF, founded in 1991 with a seed grant from the Energy Impact Assistance <br />Fund, has been supported by the public and private community of Colorado Springs in <br />addition to donations and technical assistance from Castle Concrete. The role of the CMRF <br />in the azea has been one of implementing enhanced reclamation plans for Pikeview Quam~ <br />and Queen's Canyon Quarry (located to the south of Pikeview Quarry). These enhanced <br /> <br />reclamation plans, developed by a City/County Mining Reclamation Committee and the , <br />Governor's Mountain Scars Commission, and acknowledged by the Colorado Mined Lancl <br />Reclamation Board, aze implemented in addition to basic (required by law) reclamation azid <br /> <br />include grass, wildflower and tree planting, grading, filling, and rock staining. , <br />The public support and concerns were then considered in the development of a <br />proposal for a mining and reclamation plan at the Pikeview Quarry. After the application <br />was received, the Pikes Peak Ranger District issued a press_release (see Appendix A) <br />notifying the public that aSpecial-Use Application had been received from Castle Concrete ' <br />regarding a proposed layback plan at the Pikeview Quarry, Colorado, and public comments <br />were solicited. In addition, the U.S.D.A. Forest Service issued a notification which was <br />mailed to several organizations, individuals and governmental agencies. ' <br />In response to the proposed reclamation plan, as described in the Permit Number M- <br />77-211, the Colorado Springs City Council issued the resolution No. 37-00, dated March 14, , <br />2000, endorsing the referred plan. Also, the Board of County Commissioners of El Paso <br /> <br />Hydrosphere Resource Consultants. 1002 Walnut Strew Suite 200, Boulder, CO 80302 <br /> <br />