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<br />1 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />1 <br />1 <br />~l <br /> <br /> <br />1 <br /> <br />hazards, topographical constraints, and environmentally sensitive areas. <br />Anticipated ROW acquisition constraints of the project include private property <br />along Stewart Gulch and on property in the Parachute Creek drainage basin not <br />currently owned by Unocal. <br />With the exception of the pipeline corridor section from the Piceance Site to the <br />existing corridor at the upper end of Hatch Gulch (approximately 6.5 miles), and <br />the section off the east face of Davis Point (approximately 3 miles), no new <br />pipeline segments of any significant length are proposed. <br />1.2 Pipeline Permitting <br />American Soda submitted a commercial mine plan for the Yankee Gulch Project <br />to the BLM in August 1998. The BLM is the lead federal agency for developing <br />the Yankee Gulch Project Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), which is being <br />prepared by a third-party EIS contractor, Woodward-Clyde Consultants <br />(Woodward-Clyde). Permitting of the pipelines will be completed as part of the <br />permitting of the overall Yankee Gulch Project and will be covered in the EIS. <br />Several environmental studies were completed for the Yankee Gulch Project <br />commercial mine plan. The studies included the pipeline corridor to the extent <br />determined to be appropriate in consultation with the BLM. Resource studies <br />completed for the project are indicated in Table 2. <br />Table 2 Pipeline Corridor Resource Studies <br />Study Contractor <br />Archaeological/cultural resources inventory Grand River Institute <br />Raptor nesting survey Cedar Creek Associates <br />Threatened/endangered plant survey Western Slope Environmental <br />Wetlands inventory/delineation Steigers Corporation <br />The Yankee Gulch Project pipeline will be constructed consistent with the results <br />of these resource studies and the respective permit conditions/stipulations <br />defined in the EIS and its Conditions of Approval. Any additional required <br />studies (e.g., for the new Davis Point route) of cultural resources, raptors, <br />threatened and endangered plants, or wetlands will be conducted prior to <br />pipeline construction. <br />1 <br />' P~pehrie Wormaeon Summary 3 <br />Yankee GWch Sodium Minerals Project <br />Amerman Soda. L L. P. <br />