GENERAL50712

• Permit No: C1981034
• IBM Index Class Name: General Documents
• Doc Date: 7/29/1988
• Doc Name: PROPOSED DECISION & FINDINGS OF COMPLIANCE FOR RN1
• Permit Index Doc Type: FINDINGS
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

For further description of the cumulative impacts, see the Tongue Creek,
Colorado CHIS, available in Division offices. Based upon the analyses
performed in the CHIS and in individual findings documents, the Division makes
the following finding regarding the proposed Red Canyon Mines:
The Red Canyon Mines have been designed to prevent material damage to the
hydrologic balance outside the permit area.
4. The Division finds that the permit area is, subject to valid rights
existing as of August 3, 1977, not within:
a) An area designated unsuitable for surface coal mining operations
(2.07.6(2)(d)(i));
b) An area under study for designation as unsuitable far surface coal
mining operations (2.07.6(2)(d)(ii));
c) The boundaries of the National Park System, the National Wildlife
Refuge System, the National System of Trails, the National
Wilderness Preservation System, the Wild and Scenic Rivers System
including rivers under study for designation, and National
Recreation Areas (2.07.6(2)(d)(iii)(A));
d) Three hundred feet of any public building, school, church,
community or institutional building, or public park
(2.07.6(2)(d)(iii)(B));
e) One hundred feet of a cemetery (2.07.6(2)(d)(iii)(C));
f) The boundaries of any National Forest(2.07.6(2)(d)(iii)(D));
g) The permit area includes portions of Delta County Roads T50 and
2075 Drive. The permit application contains no documentation that
County approval was ever acquired for mining within 100 feet of the
County roads. Consequently, the following stipulation is imposed
(2.07.6(2)(d)(iv):
Stipulation 10:
WITHIN SIX (6) MONTHS OF PERMIT APPROVAL, THE APPLICANT SHALL
PROVIDE DOCUMENTATION OF COUNTY APPROVAL FOR INCLUSION OF COUNTY
ROADS T50 AND 2075 DRIVE WITHIN THE PERMIT AREA.
h) This permit renewal application is an application for reclamation
only. As such, there are not consent waivers from owners of
occupied dwellings located within 300 feet of the permit area per
Rule 2.07.6(2)(d)(v)
5. On the basis of information submitted by Grand Mesa Coal Company in the
form of a survey by Nickens and Associates (Appendix C of Permit
Application) the Division finds that subject to valid existing rights as
of August 3, 1977, the mining operation will not adversely affect any
publicly owned park or place listed on the National Register of Historic
Places (2.07.6(2)(e)(i)).
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