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CHAPTERTHREE Enuironmentali Consequences • Minor losses of dragon millcvetch and its habitat would occur at the Picea~tce Site. 3.11 CULTURAL AND PALEONTOLOGICAL RESOURCES 3.11.1 Direct and Indirect Impacts Piceance Site Potential impacts to cultural and paleontological resources would be the samE: as under the Proposed Action. Pipeline Conidor . Potential impacts to cultural and paleontological resources would be the samr, as under the Proposed Action. Parachute Site Potential impacts to cultural and paleontological resources would be the same as under the Proposed Action. There aze no lmown significant cultural or paleontological resources within the Parachute Site. 3.11.2 Unavoidable Adverse Impacts Most adverse effects to cultural and paleontological resources would be mitigated through the Programmatic Agreement being developed by the BLM, State.Historic Preservation Officer, American Council on Historic Preservation, and American Soda. Unavoidat~le adverse impacts would remain the same as those discussed in the Draft EIS. 3.12 LAND USE AND RECREATION 3.12.1 Direct and Indirect Impacts Piceance Site Compliance of the proposed project with BLM and Rio Blanco County land use regulations would be similaz to that described for the Proposed Action. The additional mitigation contained in the various mitigation/monitoting plans included in the appendices to this Final EIS provides further assurance that the project would be consistent within the land use policies and goals of the affected jurisdictions. American Soda would also meet various conditions of approval required by Rio Blanco County as part of the county's Major Development Permit. The BLM would implement a No Surface Occupancy stipulation within habitat occupied by the federally protected Dudley Bluffs twinpod or the Dudley Bluffs bladdetpod. These plants occur • within the Ryan Gulch ACEC. Adherence to these stipulations and the additional mitigation 3-20 Cultural and Paleontological Resources