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/%~~ <br />4-1 <br />4.0 DESCRIPTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT <br />4.1 Land Use <br />4.1.1 Site Specific Land Use <br />This requested adjustment to the permit boundary, to facilitate <br />ancillary activities associated with future Salt Creek mining <br />operations in the area, does not encompass a land use category <br />or situation other than previously identified in the original <br />application and permit, C-020-81. The permit area land use is <br />shown in Figure 2.1-15. <br />The permit area does encompass more agriculturally active lands <br />(irrigated cropping) but the physical disturbance to such lands <br />(2.9 acres) is insignificant (see Section 4.1.3.4.4). <br />The proposed permit area, as well as the general area of the <br />six block tract, is not within an area designated as unsuita- <br />ble for underground mining under 30 CFR 764 or 765 or within an <br />• area under study for such designation. <br />4.1.2 Prime Farmland <br />Based upon soil characterizations, the soils within the proposed <br />permit area (as adjusted) would not qualify as prime farmland. <br />A negative declaration was requested from the United Stated De- <br />partment of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service, and has been <br />provided in Appendix Js. <br /> <br />