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underground operations in the permit and adjacent area are shown on the <br />• Geology/Hydrology Map (Map 7). Additional information regarding past <br />underground mining operations in the Coal Gulch area is set forth in <br />Exhibit 6, Previous Underground Mining Operations. <br />Other than past mining activities, the permit and adjacent area have had <br />no significant historic events take place on it. In many areas along <br />Coal Gulch, only remnants remain of what were once working underground <br />coal operations. Only abandoned waste dumps and deteriorating <br />structures of the old mines can still be seen from State Highway 160. <br />The permit area of Peerless Resources was not the location of any events <br />important to the course of local, state or national history. Nothing <br />from the old mining activities has been associated with people important <br />in local, state or national history. None of the abandoned, <br />deteriorating facilities along Coal Gulch have any characteristics to <br />make them more representative or more distinct than many of the other <br />• mining sites in the surrounding Durango/Hesperus country. <br />In addition, there is nothing historic about the permit area. Sites of <br />past coal mining in the permit and adjacent areas are merely old. The <br />removal of old mining and associated sites will not constitute an impact <br />on the significant historic resources of the region. Rather, the <br />proposed mining and reclamation operations by Peerless Resources will be <br />extremely beneficial in eliminating old highwall areas and past mining <br />disturbance, following reclamation of the proposed surface facilities <br />at the operation, the area will be again useful as undeveloped land for <br />wildlife use. <br />• <br />2.04-8 <br />