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Critical Elements No impacts are anticipated to the following resources: Air Ouallty, ACEC's, Cultural or Historic Values, Prime or Unique Farmlands, Native American Religious Concerns, T&E Plants and Animals, Hazardous/Solid Wastes, Wetlands, Wild and Scenic Rivers, Wilderness Values, Wildlife, Floodplains, Riparian areas and Water Quality. 3. Unavoidable Adverse Impacts There are no unavoidable adverse impacts. 4. Short-Term Uses vs. Lona-Term Productivity There will be a short-term loss of vegetation. and wildlife and range habitat but with reclamation the vegetative condltion of the site may be improved. 5. Irreversible or Irretrievable Commitment of Resources The irreversible and irretrievable commitment of resources is the removal of the uranium mineral resource. 6. Cumulative Impacts The impacts of the proposed action contributes to the surface disturbance that is present from past exploration and mining activity in the area. The disturbance resulting from mining v~ill be reclaimed as required by BLM, DOE and CDMG mine permits. Therefore, there will be no significant cumulative impacts resulting from the proposed action. B. No Action Alternative No Impacts V. Mitiaatina Measures and P.esidual Impacts The following mitigation measure will be required to insure no significant impacts will occur. For any new disturbances not within the footprint of the existing disturbances (except for structures), a plan of operations amendment must be filed and approval gained from this office. BLM will be not'rfied of any changes to the mine permits through plan amendments. Not'rfy BLM when reclamation starts. Cultural resource and Threatened and Endangered Species inventories by BLM :ire required prior to any surface disturbance outside of existing disturbance. Structures will be inventoried by BLM to determine if there is any cultural significance. BLM will recommend ii arr/ structures should be saved. All structures will be removed unless specrfically authorized by the BLM to protect cultural and historic values. The operator/claimant will continue to comply with 43 CFR 3815.2, 3715.2-1 and 3715.5. Use or occupancy of the land is,limited to that which is reasonably incident. The C-JD~ permit states that the BLM recommended seedmix will be used for rr~clamation. This should also apply to the Mineral Joe permit as well. At the time of reclamation, BLM will recommend a seed mix. Currently the recommended pinion juniper seed requirements are: