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At the completion of drilling the pad would be contoured back to approximate original elevation, <br />seeded, mulched, and fertilized with the removed brush and timber pulled back onto the pad. <br />Exploration Dri11 Hole DDD does coincide with potential lynx habitat. Water for the drilling <br />activities would be provided to the drill site from the Minnesota Creek Ditch via a 1"hose along <br />NFSR 711 to drill site for an estimated length of 500'. Total water usage is projected at 0.22 <br />acre-feet. <br />Exploration Drill Hole 00 will be accessed from NFSR 711-3B approximately 0.4 miles north <br />of the junction with NFSR 711. The pad would be constructed on the west side of NFSR 711-3B <br />in an approximate rectangular shape of 100'X175'. A zone of brush may be may be left to <br />provide a view shed buffer. The pad will be brushed and cleazed with a minimum amount of <br />topsoil disturbed to aid in reclamation. At the completion of drilling the pad would be contoured <br />back to approximate original elevation, seeded, mulched, and fertilized with the removed brush <br />and timber pulled back onto the pad. Water for the drilling activities would be provided to the <br />drill site from the Minnesota Creek Ditch via a 1"hose along NFSR 711-3B.to drill site for an <br />estimated length of 700'. Total water usage is projected at 0.22 acre-feet. <br />Exploration Drill Hole EEE will be accessed from NFSR 711-3B approximately 0.5 miles north <br />of the junction with NFSR 711 and a new temporary road 0.2 miles in length and 14' wide. The <br />new temporary road would run west off of IVFSR 711-3B toward the edge of Coal Creek Mesa <br />terminating at the drill site. The pad would be constructed approximately 300' east of the initial <br />contour break of Coal Creek Mesa in an approximate rectangular shape of 100'X175'. A wide <br />zone of trees and understory will provide a view shed buffer to the west. The pad will be brushed <br />and cleazed with a minimum amount of topsoil disturbed to aid in reclamation. At the <br />completion of drilling the pad would be contoured back to approximate original elevation, <br />seeded, mulched, and fertilized with the removed brush and timber pulled back onto the pad. <br />The temporary access road will be reclaimed and obliterated. Water for the drilling activities <br />would be provided to the drill site from the Minnesota Creek Ditch.via a.l" hose along,NFSR . :. <br />711-3B and the temporary access road to drill site for an estimated.length of 2400'. Total water . <br />usage is projected at 0.22 acre-feet. <br />Two of the five proposed sites, 00 and EEE, lie within the West Elk Inventoried Roadless Area <br />(IRA). The GMUG Forest Plan allows for road building in this II2A and did not identify it as a <br />further planning area. According to Forest Service Interim Directive 1920-2004-1 the Regional <br />Forester will be the Deciding Official on this project. Cumulative disturbance within the TRA <br />includes 0.6 miles of classified road reconditioning, 0.23 miles of temporary road construction, <br />and 1.68 acres of temporary pad construction. Tota] surface disturbance for drill pad and <br />temporazy road construction is 2.51 acres in the Dry Fork CEL. <br />Each drill hole is estimated to require one week to drill and abandon working 24 hours per day <br />with mobilization, demobilization, and site reclamation adding an additional two weeks. The <br />drilling and reclamation activities for a three hole program in 2005 would require five weeks <br />which could be accomplished in the months of August and September. If the two remaining <br />were to be drilled in 2006, the work would require four weeks, which could be accomplished <br />during June and July. The total cumulative running time would be less than one year. The <br />estimated project time is nine weeks. <br />