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1. Socioeconomics <br />• Direct Impacts- If the proposed lease was not <br />issued, the 78 people employed at the mine and in <br />transporting the coal would still remain employed <br />for approximately 10-12 years at the current <br />production rate. Impacts of not issuing the lease <br />would be that the employment period would be cut <br />short by the number of years of production that the <br />coal reserves in the lease area would afford. <br />Present company contracts would continue to be <br />filled until all of the company's coal reserves are <br />utilized. Federal, State and local governments <br />would not share approximately $325,000 in direct <br />tax revenues and $324,000 in royalties each year. <br />Indirect Impacts- No impacts have been identified. <br />Cumulative Impacts- No impacts have been <br />identified. <br />V <br />• <br />VI <br />VII. <br />AGENCIES AND/OR INDIVIDUALS CONSULTED <br />Tom Bird, National King Coal, Inc. <br />Trent Peterson, National King Coal, Inc. <br />Jim Vorwald, National King Coal, Inc. <br />Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement <br />Pat Tucker, Colorado Division of Wildlife <br />LIST OF PREPARERS <br />Robert S. Kershaw <br />Desty Dyer <br />Hilazy Donoghue <br />Kristie Arrington <br />Charlie Higby <br />Dennis Murphy <br />Floyd McMullen <br />Donald Englishman <br />Fischer, Dennis W <br />Assessment of <br />Coal Resource <br />Minerals/All <br />Minerals/All <br />Wildlife & T & E <br />Archaeology/Historic/Native <br />Religious Concerns <br />Lands <br />Hydrology <br />All/OSM Coordination <br />Environmental Coordinator <br />American <br />., 1981, Paleontological Inventory and <br />the Durango and Cortez Known Recoverable <br />Areas: BLM Contract, 63 pages. <br />Zapp, A. D., 1949, Geology and Coal Resources of the Durango <br />Area, LaPlata and Montezuma Counties, Colorado: U. S. <br />Geological Survey Oil and Gas Investigations Preliminary <br />Map 109, 2 Sheets. <br />• 15 <br />