GENERAL44531

• Permit No: C1980004
• IBM Index Class Name: General Documents
• Doc Date: 5/3/1983
• Doc Name: review of responses to stipulations concerning baseline veg information
• From: MLRD
• To: SHERIDAN ENTERPRISES INC
• Permit Index Doc Type: STIPULATIONS
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES
D. Monte Pascoe. Executive Director
MINED LAND RECLAMATION DIVISION
DAVID C. SHELTON Director
Richard D. Lamm
Governor
April 27, 1983
T0: Jim Herron
FROM: M.S. Savage ~./a~~~t--~
RE: Review of Sheridan Enterprises/WRD Responses to Stipulations for
McClane and Munger Permits (No. C-004-8U and C-007-80,
respectively)
Jim,
I have reviewed the April 18, 1983 submittal by Sheridan
Enterprises/Western Resource Development which addresses the
vegetation/re vegetation stipulations to the McClane and Munger permits,
and have the following comments:
MUN6ER L'ANYON
Stipulation No. 9: .The response to this stipulation is satisfactory.
The Division may consider the requirements of this stipulation
satisfied. WRD demonstrated that by combining productivity data
from the Big Sagebrush affected and reference areas, an adequate
sample was obtained. It is noted that the nmin calculation
presented is in error by an order of magnitude, but this does not
affect the adequacy of the sampling.
Stipulation No. 10: The response to this stipulation was satisfactory.
The Division may consider the requirements of this stipulation
satisfied. WRD has demonstrated the representativeness of the
sampling year.
Stipulation No. 11: The information required by this stipulation was
present within the pennit application. The permittee may be
required to sample in some communities for the reasons discussed
below.
For all vegetation types present at Munger Canyon, it was
determined that woody plant density sampling and tree density
sampling was insufficient to meet sample adequacy requirements.
Several tests were performed to determine the comparability of
affected and reference areas, and Munger and McClane communities.
It was determined that the means of Big Sagebrush affected and
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