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~ • • <br />This pec-nit termination is categorically excluded from the National <br />Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) process because the Federal permit and <br />mining plan approval xere previously covered by the NEPA process (i.a., <br />OS MR E's Environmental Assessment and Finding of iIO Significant Impac*. <br />dated Fe'orua:y 6, 1981) <br />II. Back;round <br />T:^.? :darr Strip surface coal mine is located in Jackson County, Colorado, <br />about 10 miles east of Walden. The Colorado State permit area contains <br />approximately 1,764 acres, approximately 770 acres of which are leased <br />r"ede ral coal in the mining plan aces for federal lease C-22777. <br />The i4arr Strip mine mining plan vas originally approved under the <br />Federal lands program on ifarch 3, 1981, and the mine vas permitted by <br />OS;TtE under the r^edersl lands program and Colorado State program on <br />:iovember 5, 1986. Since the original approval of the mining plan, there <br />have been no mining plan modifications. <br />OS[d3E's Albquerque Field Office vas consulted on ilavember 14, 1988 and <br />has indica*,ed that no pending enforcement actions are associated with <br />the federal permit for the :farr Strip mine. <br />The Federal pe raft contained no special conditions of approval. <br />The standard_ conditions of the existing mining plan approval are <br />appended to this memorandum ss Attachment A. <br />III. Aporoval: <br />I approve the termination of Federal permit CO-0002, issued on November 5. <br />1986, for the idarr Strip mine. The applicable standard conditions of the <br />Wining plan approved by the Assistant Secreta ry on Mach h 3. 1981, are <br />appended ss Attachment A and remain in full force and effect notwithstanding <br />ft,;e ..e ,.,,;f •e,.,,; ~er;~., n.,.. ,~.~07 <br />~f 7 ~5 <br />Date <br />Western Fie td Operations <br />Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement <br />