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Climate and Air Quality The applicant uses best available current technology to reduce dust on roads and to suppress coal dust produced by the coal crusher. The Bear Coal Company is not creating an adverse impact on the quality of the air in the area. Vegetation This action will not disturb the vegetation in the proposed mining plan approval area. No impacts will occur with approval of this mining plan. Wildlife The mining plan approval area does not disturbance. Production levels and the increase. Monitoring of surface waters shown any degradation of water quality. the wildlife species or habitat in the Surface water Hydrology include new surface work force will not to date has not No new impacts on area is expected. No new surface disturbance is associated with this approval. Monitoring to date has shown that surface water and shallow alluvial ground water has not been adversely effected. No important impacts to the surface water system will occur. An increase in the surface water is not expected by this action. Ground Water Hvdrology Subsidence effects on the ground water were analyzed by MLRD for the mining of the B coal seam and found to be minimal. No water has yet been encountered in the Bear No. 3 Mine. No seeps or springs are located above the workings or in the area to be subsided. No important aquifers have been identified by drilling. No impacts are anticipated. Based on the assessment of cumulative hydrologic impacts and probable hydrologic consequences of the proposed operations, the mining and reclamation operations will not result in a substantial loss or reduction of long-range productivity of the water supply in the area including aquifers and aquifer recharge areas. Soils No new surface disturbance will occur with this approval. There will be no impact on the soils. 12