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• water withdrawn from the North Fork of the Gunnison River should not affect the water <br />rights of other downstream users. <br />Bear Coal Company has committed to replace any water rights which are affected or <br />damaged by their mining activities. <br />Soils -Rule 2.04.9. 2.05.3(51. 2.05.4(211d1 and 4.06 <br />Soil resource information for the Bear No. 1 and 2 Mines is located in Section 2.04.9 of <br />the Bear No. 1 and 2 permit application. Soils resource information for the Bear No. 3 <br />Mine is contained in Sections 2.04.9 and 4.06, Exhibit 9 and Map 4 (Soils) of the Bear No. <br />3 permit revision application, and Exhibit 23 of the Bear midterm response. <br />Six soil types are present on the permit area, but only the Breece loam will be extensively <br />disturbed by mining. The soil types are the Absarokee -Work Loam, Beenoon-Absarokee <br />Association, Breece Loam Cryoborolls, Torriothents Haplergids, and Torriothents Rock <br />Outcrop. All of the soil types except the Breece Loam exist on areas that overlie the <br />underground workings and will not be disturbed by surface activities. <br />The Breece Loam occurs along flood plains of the North Fork of the Gunnison River and <br />has been extensively disturbed by surface facilities of the Bear No. 1 , 2 and 3 Mines. The <br />surface horizon of this soil consists of up to 19 inches of dark brown loam. The surface <br />horizon is underlain by up to 40 inches of stratified, mottled silts and sands. The silts and <br />• sands grade into coarse sands, gravel and cobbles as depth increases. Bedrock is <br />generally greater than 60 inches below the ground surface. Soil samples taken from the <br />Bear No. 3 facilities area indicate that the Breece Loam is a sandy loam with neutral pH, <br />low SAR and salinity. <br />The Beenom-Absarokee Association soils are shallow, well drained soils on steep <br />mountainside slopes, with thicker deposits developing on the lower part of the slopes. <br />Moderately sloping uplands and valley side slopes are included in the Absarokee-Work <br />Loam unit, characterized by predominantly loamy surface soils overlying sandstone, with <br />soil thicknesses of over 60 inches in depressions and swales. Previous portal development <br />at the Bear No. 1 and 2 Mines and at the Bear No. 3 Mine, has disturbed soils of the <br />Beenom-Absarokee Association. No further disturbance of this soil is proposed. <br />Veoetation -Rules 2.04.10, 2.05.4(211e1 and 4.15 <br />Information describing vegetation at the Bear No. 1 and 2 Mines is presented in Section <br />2.04.10 of the Bear No. 1 and 2 permit application. Vegetation information for the Bear <br />No. 3 Mine is presented in Sections 2.04.10 and 4.15 and Map 3 (Vegetation) of the Bear <br />No. 3 permit revision application. Revegetation information or the Bear No. 1 and 2 Mines <br />is contained ih Section 2.05.4 of the Bear No. 1 and 2 permit application. Revegetation <br />information for the Bear No. 3 Mine is presented in Sections 2.05.4 and 4.15 of the Bear <br />No. 3 permit revision application. <br />• Vegetation types present in the Bear permit area include Aspen, Wet mixed shrub, Dry <br />mixed shrub, Douglas fir, Juniper-Pirion, Dry Meadow and Riparian. <br />9 <br />