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<br />Table of Contents <br />Page <br />Introduction ...................................................... <br />Proposed Decision <br />List of Stipulations ............................................. <br />Summary - The Review Process, <br />Description of the Environment <br />Description of the Operations <br />and <br />and Reclamation Plan ............... <br />Findings of the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Division........... 10 <br />I. Legal, Financial and Compliance ............................ 10 <br />II. Land Use ................................................... 11 <br />III. Cultural and Historic Resources ............................ 11 <br />IV. Climatological Information and Air Resources ............... 12 <br />V. Geology .................................................... 12 <br />VI. Hydrologic Balance ......................................... 13 <br />VII. Alluvial Valley Floors ............ ...................... 16 <br />VIII. Probable Hydrologic Consequences and <br /> Cumulative Hydrologic Impact Study ....................... 18 <br />IX. Soils .. .................................................. 42 <br />X. Vegetation .. ............................................ 43 <br />XI. Fish and Wildlife .......................................... 44 <br />XII. Prime Farmland.. ....................................... 44 <br />XIII. Operations Description ..................................... 45 <br />XIV. Explosives.... ......................................... <br />~ 45 <br />XV. Backfilling and <br />Grading........ .......... ........... <br />. ... .. 45 <br />XVI. Coal Processing Waste and Non-Coal Processing Waste........ 46 <br />XVII. Mine Facilities, Coal Handling Structures, Roads, <br /> Ponds, Impoundments and Diversions ....................... 47 <br />XVIII. Bonding....... ........... ........ ................ <br />~ 51 <br />XIX. Sealing of Drilled <br />Holes and Underground Openings.......... 51 <br />XX. Subsidence .... .. .. ................................... 51 <br />... .. <br />XXI. Special Categories of Mining ............................... 51 <br />XXII. Miscellaneous Compliance.. .. ................... 51 <br />XXIII. Operations on Lands Subject to Limitations <br />or Prohibitions.. .. ... ...... 52 <br />..... ........... ........ .... <br />XXIV. Demonstration that Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation <br />Operations can be Feasibly Accomplished .................. 53 <br />XXV. Compatibility with Anticipated Adjacent Operations......... 53 <br />XXV I. Reclamation Fees Required by 30 CFR, Chapter VII, <br />Subchapter R ............................................. 53 <br />