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~6-~/ <br />United States Department of the Interior <br />• <br />IN REPLY REFER TO: <br />ES-6-RO-95-F-001-GJ387 <br />MS 65412 GJ <br />FISH AhiD WILDLIFE SERVICE <br />Ecological Services <br />764 Horizon Drive, Building B <br />Grand Junction, Colorado 81506-3946 <br />__ ~ ;~% .4 <br />June 9, 2005 <br />• <br />• <br />Memorandum <br />To: Natural Resources Specialist, Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and <br />Enforcement, Denver, Colorado / <br />Fro ~• Western Colorado Supervisor, Fish and Wildlife Service, Ecological S?e ~~ w,,,~-~ <br />,Tunction, Colorado ~, ~ <br />Subject: (Final Biological Opinion for Mountain Coal Company, LLC, West Elk ,/Mine Permit <br />C-80-007, Revision 10 <br />This is in response to your letter dated May 10, 2005, concerning Revision 10, to Permit C-80- <br />002,-proposed_by-Mountain Coal.Company, LLC, for the West Elk underground.coal_mine-in <br />Delta and Gunnison counties, Colorado. The mine is near the town of Somerset, Colorado on <br />private lands and lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest <br />Service. Our response is in accordance with section 7 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as <br />amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), and the Interagency Cooperation Regulations (50 CFR 402), <br />Your letter includes effects determinations for the following federally listed, threatened or <br />endangered species, and candidates for potential future listing: <br />Bald eagle <br />Black-footed ferret <br />Bonytail <br />Boreal toad <br />Canada lynx <br />Eriogonum pelinophilum <br />Colorado pikeminnow. <br />Gunruson sage-grouse <br />Humpback chub <br />Razorback sucker <br />Sclerocactus gZaucus <br />Yellow-billed cuckoo <br />Uncompahgre fritillary butterfly <br />Mexican spotted owl <br />Southwestern willow flycatcher <br />(T =federally-listed threatened; E = fede <br />Haliaeetus leucocephalus <br />Mustela nigripes <br />Gila etegans <br />Bufo boreas boreas , <br />Lyra canadensis <br />Clay-loving wild buckwheat <br />PtychocheiZus Zucius <br />Ceiit3"OCC3"CtiS iiiinliiiil5 <br />Gila cypha <br />Xyrauchentexanus <br />Uinta Basin hookless cactus <br />Coccyzus americanus <br />Boloria acrocnema <br />Strix occidentalis lucida <br />Empidonax traillii extimus <br />rally-listed endangered; C = a Federal candidate species) <br />T <br />E <br />E <br />C <br />T <br />E <br />E <br />C <br />E <br />E <br />T <br />C <br />E <br />T <br />E <br />