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<br />Description of the Environment <br />The original Findings Document contains a description of the original permit <br />area which remains accurate. During the first 5-year permit term, <br />approximately 190 acres were added to the permit area by incidental boundary <br />changes approved by the Division, There has been and will be no surface <br />disturbance on the 1,235 acres being added by this permit revision, other than <br />possible subsidence effects, Surface disturbances associated with the <br />Southfield Mine are limited to 81 acres at the mine site and 15 acres at the <br />load-out near Florence, Colorado, <br />The 1,235 acres to be added to the permit area is land with topography, <br />vegetation, soils, geology and land use similar to the original permit area, <br />The westward expansion encompasses some areas of the Wet Mountains of higher <br />elevation (7,350 feet) than the original permit area, including one area of <br />Ponderosa Pine-Douglas Fir community (22 acres). The northward expansion <br />encompasses a third area of riparian woodland community (less then one acre) <br />in addition to the two riparian areas already inside the permit area. With <br />these noted exceptions, additional area consists of the same <br />grassland/woodland communities at the foot of the Wet Mountains as described <br />in the original Findings Document. <br />-5- <br />