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' CNAPTERTWO Proposed Action and AlternaWes the Pazachute Site, access by the same pipeline construction workers would be via Parachute Creek Road from the town of Pazachute and then dirt access roads to the pipe]ine route itself. Current American Soda employees reside in Meeker, Rangely, Rifle, Glenwood Springs, ' Pazachute, and Battlement Mesa, and it is expected that future hires would also reside in these communities, but future hires could reside as faz away as Grand Junction. It is estimated that rail traffic would be one train trip per day of about 26 100-ton rail cars, 5 days per week, or 130 cazs per week. Along the Union Pacific main line, rail traffic would increase from about 24 trains per week to 27 trains with the proposed project. 2.2.5 Mitigation and Monitoring Programs ' During Yankee Gulch Project operations, several monitoring programs would be implemented, including: • Solution Mining Well Monitoring • Subsidence Monitoring • Groundwater Quality and Water Level Monitoring • Evaporation Pond Monitoring • Air Emission Source Monitoring ' • Wildlife Recovery and Replacement Plan Solution mining well monitoring, surface subsidence monitoring, and groundwater monitoring ' aze only applicable to the Piceance Site. Evaporation pond monitoring and air emission source monitoring programs would be developed for both the Piceance Site and the Pazachute Site. 2.2.5.1 Solution Mining Well Monitoring A solution mining well monitoring program would be developed prior to the ROD and implemented in accordance with the requirements of BLM, CDMG, and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Class III Underground Injection Control (UiC) Area Permit for the ' project. The monitoring plan would be finalized once the UIC permit is issued and would be established to ensure that solution mining activities would not cause the movement of fluids into any Underground Source of Drinking Water (USDW). Furthermore, the monitoring program ' would be implemented to help ensure compliance with Colorado Statute 25-8-102(2). A portion of this statute states that it is the public policy of the state to conserve state waters and to protect, maintain and improve where necessary and reasonable, the quality thereof for public water supplies, for protection and propagation of wildlife and aquatic life, for domestic, agricultural industrial and recreational uses and for other beneficial uses. The statute also provides that no pollutant be released into any state waters without first receiving the treatment or other corrective ' action to reasonably protect the legitimate and beneficial uses. ' 2-19