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• company paid approximately 53',1,794.00 in workmen's compensation, S 104,23.00 in federal <br />royalties, 54,445 in private royalties, 54'_,453.00 in reclamation taxes, 5263,27 ] .00 in excise tax <br />for black lung benefits, 549,630.OU in state severance taxes, and $30,167.00 in counh~ property <br />[axes. <br />In addition to the people employed at the mine, various coal-hauling contractors employ an <br />additional equivalent of 28 full-time jobs. The coal buyer pays the freight, which generates an <br />additional $2.8 million annually to "satellite industry" for this provided service. <br />IV. ENVIRONI\4ENTAL IMPACTS OF THE PROPOSED ACTION <br />CRITICAL ELEMENTS <br />Air Quality <br />No direct, indirect, or cumulative impacts have been identified. <br />Signature of specialist: Loren Wickstrom 11-3-99 <br />• 2. Areas of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC) <br />The area is not located within an area designated as an ACEC by the San Juan/San Miguel <br />Resource Management Plan. <br />Signature of specialist: Loren Wickstrom 11-3-99 <br />3. Cultural Resources <br />Direct Impacts - In 1997, National King Coal concluded a Class III, intensive surface inventory <br />of approximately 40 of the 52 acres involved in this lease modification. No archaeological or <br />historic sites or paleontological localities were located. The surveyed azea included primarily <br />the steep slopes and bottom of Rattlesnake Gulch. The modification area, however, extends <br />beyond the east rim of Rattlesnake Gulch and the surveyed area across a flat mesatop where it <br />is more likely that an archaeological of historic site may exist. However, [he frequency of site <br />occurrences in this area, based on adjacent inventory data, is low: one historic stone foundation <br />and three isolated prehistoric stone tools recorded within 1 miles radius of the modification area. <br />Low levels of subsidence have been observed within other coal mining areas adjacent to the <br />modification area, however, they are not to the degree that the would impact surface resources <br />and are limited to canyon bottoms where no sites have been found. Since there is no anticipated <br />• t0 <br />