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_12_ The applicant has provided an identification of interests, as required by Section 2.03.4. The proposed operation is in compliance with the requirements of this section. II. Land Use - Rules 2.04.3, 2.05.5 and 4.16 The pre-mining land use at the Carbon Junction Mine is classified as rangeland-wildlife habitat and dryland farming. The applicant proposes to return the disturbed land to these same categories as discussed in Section 2.05.5 of the application. The Division approves the post-mining land use as proposed by Pueblo Coal, Inc. The application is in compliance with the requirements of Rule 2.07.6(2)(1) and all other requirements of this section. III. Cultural and Historic Resources - Rules 2.04.4 and 2.05.6(4) The applicant has submitted a site-specific literature search of the proposed permit area (Appendix 4-1). The literature search was performed by the Colorado State Historic Preservation Officer. Based on this report, the Division finds that the proposed mining operation will not adversely affect any publicly owned park or place listed on the National Register of Historic Places (Rule 2.06.5(2)(e)). The proposed operation is in compliance with the requirements of this section. IV. Geology - Rules 2.04.5 and 2.04.6 The applicant has supplied sufficient geologic information for the permit and adjacent areas within the permit application. Geologic information contained within the permit application can be found in Sections 2.04.5, 2.04.6; Table 4-l; Map 4-2; and appendix 4-2 of the permit application. The following description of geology is a summary of information contained within the permit application and public information of the general area of the mine. The proposed Carbon Junction Mine permit area is located on the northern rim of the San Juan structural basin in Southwest Colorado. The sedimentary strata in the permit area dip 26 to 30 degrees to the southeast and strike North 45o West. There are no mapped faults within the permit and adjacent areas. Folding within the general area, however, has produced fracturing within the more brittle sandstone and coal strata. The sandstones are resistant to erosion and form prominent ridges and cliffs at outcrops. Stream valleys within the area of the proposed mine are controlled by the geology. The Animas River has cut a steep sided valley perpendicular to bedding of the strata, and may be related to a fracture or fault trend. Carbon Junction Canyon, which is tributary to the Animas River, has cut a channel which parallels the bedding of the strata in the less resistant shales, coals and siltstones of the lower Fruitland Formation.