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DRMS Permit Index
Permit No
C1980007
IBM Index Class Name
Permit File
Doc Date
6/13/2005
Doc Name
2.05.5 Post - Mining Land Uses
Type & Sequence
PR10
Media Type
D
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A'est Elk Mine <br />• FuPitive Dust <br />Water is applied to any active unpaved roadways, pazking areas, and refuse disposal azea to control <br />dust emissions from these azeas, if required, on a seasonal basis. <br />Oven Coal Stockpiles <br />The stockpiles aze compacted and maybe sprayed as necessary to eliminate particulate emissions <br />created during coal handling. <br />Fish and Wildlife Plan - 2.05.6(2) <br />The baseline wildlife information collected on the property indicates that the mine facilities area is <br />not of prime significance to major wildlife species. The affected azea is not known to be critical <br />habitat for big game, except small areas of critical winter range for elk and mule deer along the <br />North Fork and Minnesota Creek. The North Fork corridor also provides winter <br />concentration areas for federally listed (threatened) bald eagles, but no roost sites or other <br />critical habitat features for bald eagles exist in the permit area. Fragmentary and relatively <br />low-quality habitat for federally listed (threatened} Canada lynx is ident~ed in the permit <br />area, but lynx are not known to occur there and at best an occurrence or use would be <br />peripheral to occupied range to the south. No identified critical habitat features exist in the <br />permit area for other raptors, migratory birds, or other threatened or endangered species. <br />Cliffs in the permit area are not known to provide important nesting or roosting habitat for <br />• raptors or other cliff-dependent wildlife. Water depletions to the Colorado River Basin, if <br />they occur, could adversely affect populations and downstream critical habitat For four <br />species of federally listed (endangered) Colorado River fish. Water depletions of less than 100 <br />acre-feet per year are considered adequately mitigated by USFWS. <br />Using the best technology currently available and applying it to the extent reasonably feasible, <br />disturbances and adverse impacts of mining and related operations on fish, wildlife, and related <br />environmental impacts are n,;n;rrii~ed. Where practicable, enhancement of such resources is <br />achieved. In so doing, MCC will report to the Colorado Division of Wildlife (CDOW) the presence <br />of any threatened or endangered animal or plant species listed or proposed to be listed by the State <br />or Secretary of the Interior; any critical habitat of any threatened or endangered animal or plant <br />species listed or proposed to be listed by the State or Secretary of Interior; or any Bald or Golden <br />Eagle, or nest thereof, of which MCC becomes aware and which was not previously reported to the <br />CDOW. The electric power lines and other transmission facilities used for MCC's underground <br />coal mining operation on the pernut area will be designed and constructed to prevent electrocution <br />hazards to large birds. <br />In compliance with the USFWS's "Windy Gap Process" (a detemunation of effect of water <br />depletions in the Colorado River Basin on four endangered fish species), MCC has calculated the <br />net depletion of water from the North Fork as a result of West Elk Mine's current and projected <br />operations, including production from the Jumbo Mountain and Box Canyon lease tracts and South <br />of Divide area (Exhibit 67). This calculation is affected by any significant increase in production <br />rates, but not by an increase in the areal extent of coal to be mined. Should the rate of production or <br />other factors affecting the net depletion calculations change, the calculations would be revised. <br />2.05-90 Revised J'me 2005 PRI G <br />
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