GENERAL51537

• Permit No: C1981033
• IBM Index Class Name: General Documents
• Doc Date: 7/19/1982
• Doc Name: Mining Permit ‎(Dated 7/19/82 to 7/19/87)‎
• From: MLR
• To: BEAR COAL CO
• Permit Index Doc Type: PERMIT LEGAL DOCUMENT
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

year preceding August 3, 1977 and at that time was located
•witn;n or adjacent to alluvial valley floors, the proposed
surface coal mining operations would:
(A) Not interrupt. discontinue, or preclude farming
on alluvial valley floors that are irrigated or naturally
subirrigated• excluding undeveluped range lands which are
not significant to farming on said alluvial valley floors
and tnose lands upon which the board has found that the farm-
ing wnich will be interrupted. discontinued. or precluded
is of such small acreage as to oe of negligible impact on
said land's agricultural production; or
(B) Not materially Barrage the quantity or quality
of surface water or groundwater systems that supply the
alluvial valley floors described in sub-subparagrapn (a) of
this subparagraph (I).
f) To the extent that the applicant proposes to
extract coal by surface methcdsr and where the private min-
eral estate has been severed from the private surface estate,
the applicant has submitted to the division:
(I) The written consent of the surface owner to the
ex*_raction of coal by surface coal mining; or
(II) A conveyance that expressly grants or reserves
the right to extract the coal by surface coal mining, or,
if the conveyance does not expressly grant the right to
extrdCt COdI by sulfate Coal mining, Other legal d000mentd-
t;on supporting applicant's right of entry in accordance
with State law. (Nothing in the permit shall be construetl
as an adjudication of any property right.)
y) Subject to valid rights exist;ng as of August
3. 1977, and with the further exception of those surface
coal mining operations which were in existence on August 3•
1977• the application:
(I) Does not include any lands within the boundaries
of units of the national park system, the national wildlife
refuge systems. the national system of trails, the national
w;lderness preservation system, the wild and scenic rivers
system. including study rivers designated under said act,
and national recreation areas designated by act of the United
States Congress;
(II) Does not include any federal lands within the
boundaries of any national forest, except to the extent
that the Secretary of the Unitetl States Department of Agri-
culture has found that there are no significant recreational.
timoer• economic. or other values which may be incompatible
with such suffdCe mining OperdtiOns, and:
(A) Surface operations and impacts are incident to
an underground coal mine; or
(B) where the Secretary of the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture has determined, with respect to lands
in national forests which do not have significant forest
cover. that surface mining is in compliance witn the "Multi-
ple-Use Sustained-yield Act of 1960"• as amerded• the "Feo-
efdl COdI LedSing Amendments ACt Of 1975°, d5 dmendeo• the
"National Forest Management act of 1976". as amended. and
the provisions of article 33 cf title 34, C.R.S. 1973.
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