GENERAL56423

• Permit No: C1982057
• IBM Index Class Name: General Documents
• Doc Date: 11/17/2004
• Doc Name: Proposed Decision & Findings of Compliance for PR4
• Permit Index Doc Type: Findings
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

to the hydrologic balance outside the proposed permit area. Please refer to Section B.lII
(Probable Hydrologic Consequences) of this document for additional discussion of the
predicted hydrologic consequences of mining operations at the Seneca II-W Mine.
(2.07.6(2)(c)).
4. The Division finds that the permit area is, subject to valid rights existing as of August 3,
1977. not within:
a) An area designated unsuitable for surface coal mining operations (2.07.6(2)(d)(i));
b) An area under study for designation as unsuitable for surface coal mining
operations (2.07.6(2)(d)(ii));
c) The boundaries of the National Park System, the National Wildlife Refuge
System, the National System of Trails, the National Wilderness Preservation
System, the Wild and Scenic Rivers System including rivers under study for
designation, and National Recreation Areas (2.07.6(2)(d)(iii)(A));
d) Three hundred feet of any public building, school, church, community or
institutional building, or public park (2.07.6(2)(d)(iii)(B));
e) One hundred feet of a cemetery (2.07.6(2)(d)(iii)(C));
f) The boundaries of any National Forest unless the required finding of compatibility
has been made by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
(2.07.6(2)(d)(iii)(D));
g) One hundred feet of the outside right-of-way line of any public road except where
mine access or haul roads join such line, and excepting any roads for which the
necessary approvals have been received, notices published, public hearing
opportunities provided, and written findings made (2.07.6(2)(d)(iv));
h) Three hundred feet of an occupied dwelling unless a written waiver from the
owner has been provided (2.07.6(2)(d)(v)).
5. On the basis of correspondence from the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO), the
Division finds that subject to valid existing rights as of August 3, 1977, the mining
operation will not adversely affect any publicly owned park or place listed on or eligible
for listing in the National Register of Historic Places as determined by the State Historic
Preservation Office (2.07.6(2)(e)(i)). In a letter of November 30, 1999 associated
with review of Permit Revision No. 2, the SHPO noted that the entire proposed
permit boundary had previously been surveyed for cultural resources, and that only
two rock art sites had been determined eligible for listing in the National Register
Seneca II-W Findings Document 17 November 17, 2004
Permit Revision No. 4