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Land and Resources t•ianagement program Building Codes Solid Waste Disposal Regulations Individual Sewage Disposal Regulations County Road Vehicular Restrictions Floodplain and Geologic Hazard Regulations It•1PACTS The overburden thickness is approximately 50 feet in the Pine Gulch area (T. 35 N., R. 11 W., Sec. 32: SE!;SW';). In order to minimize the impacts of subsidence, some coal should be left in-place under Pine Gulch. The coal left in-place in Pine Gulch will amount to approximately 5-15A of the total in-place coal reserves in the lease area. If subsidence should occ would be the most likely may result in changes in habitat, vegetation, and will be mitigated, there issued. ~r over other areas ,. surface extension cracks surface disturbance. The impacts of subsidence water quality, water discharge rates, wildlife soil erosion. Because subsidence in Pine Gulch will be no adverse impacts should the lease be If the lease were issued approximately 70 people would remain employed, earning approximately 51,003,000 in salaries. The Federal, State, and local governments would share approximately 5467,000 in tax revenues. Over 51,000,000 annually in payroll would continue to be spent for goods and services in the area. 14iners would be able ~to have well paying jobs and live in their home towns. Local people dependent upon coal for home heating would have a dependable local supply. ALTERNATIVE B -- DELAY THE ACTION ALTERNATIVE Hold the lease sale for the tract at a later date and not in response to this emergency lease application. If these reserves are not leased at this time, a decision could be made to include the same area in a lease offered at a later date under a long-term coal leasing program. This would be after the completion of the San Juan Resource ttanagement•Plan and Environmental Impact Statement scheduled for completion in 1984. The lease sale would be scheduled for 1987 after activity planning and the Regional Coal Environmental Impact Statement were completed. In that event, either National~King Coal, Inc., or a second company might obtain the lease during the course of the sale.