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~J <br />Table 1-1 Land Ownership Status. <br />County Federal Land (miles) Private Land (stiles) <br />Rio Blanco County 20 5 <br />Garfield County 0 19 <br />Total (44) 20 24 <br />With the exception of the pipeline corridor section from the Piceance Site to the <br />existing natural gas gathering line corridor (approximately 6 miles) and the <br />section off the east face of Davis Point (approximately 3 miles), no new pipeline <br />corridors are proposed. Minor realignments may be required during final design <br />to avoid geologic hazazds, topographical constraints, and environmentally <br />sensitive areas. <br />1.2 Pipeline Permitting <br />American Soda submitted a commercial mine plan for the Yankee Gulch Project <br />to the BLM in August 1998. The BLM is the lead federal agency for developing <br />the Yankee Gulch Project Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), a draft of <br />which has been prepazed by a third-party EIS contractor, Woodward-Clyde <br />Consultants (Woodward-Clyde). Permitting of the pipelines will be completed as <br />part of the permitting of the overall Yankee Gulch Project and will be covered in <br />the Final EIS. <br />Several environmental studies were completed for the Yankee Gulch Project <br />commercial mine plan. The studies included the pipeline corridor to the extent <br />determined to be appropriate in consultation with the BLM. Resource studies <br />completed for the project aze indicated in Table 1-2. <br />Table 1-2 Pipeline Corridor Resource Studies. <br />LJ <br />Study Contractor <br />Archaeological/cultural resources inventory Grand River Institute <br />Raptor nesting survey Cedar Creek Associates <br />Threatened/endangered plant survey Western Slope Environmental <br />Wetlands inventory/delineation Steigers Corporation <br />Pipeline Plan of Development 3 <br />Yankee Gulch Sodiwn Minerals Project <br />Amerian Soda, LLP. <br />