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• • III IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII <br />999 <br />• Finding of No Significant Impact <br />The technical analysis and environmental assessment identifies certain <br />environmental impacts that could be caused by continued mining of the Munger <br />Canyon Mine. Impacts from subsidence are considered insignificant since no <br />renewable resource land or structures exist over the permit area. Past <br />abandoned underground mining in the general area reveals very little <br />subsidence. Possible adverse impacts to the alluvial valley floors in East <br />Salt Creek are considered by careful analysis to be minor in nature and will <br />cause negligible effects downstream as revealed by the Technical Analysis on <br />page 22 and the Environmental Assessment on page 3. Other potential impacts <br />identified by the Office of Surface Mining (OSM) would be appropriately <br />mitigated by the environmental protection measures through the use of Special <br />Stipulations as specified in the permit. <br />Based on the evaluation of impacts in the Technical Analysis prepared by the <br />Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Division, the Environmental Assessment <br />prepared by OSM, the concurrence prepared by the Bureau of Land Management, <br />the U.S.G.S. technical assessment on the mine plan and the BLM Environmental <br />Impact Statement entitled West-Central Colorado Coal issued February 1979, I <br />find that no significant impacts to the human environment would result from <br />permitting of this operation. Preparation of an environmental impact <br />statement (EIS) under the National Environment Policy Act (NEPA), 42 U.S.C. <br />4321 et sec., is, therefore, not required. <br />• <br /> <br />Allen D. Klein <br />Administrator <br />Western Technical Center <br />~~ 9/ rL <br />DATE <br />• <br />