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r <br />ik <br />/'irc?~7dt"~' ~tFg IItJ~ <br />EnvironmentaS Fr Natural Resource Manzgemer~'c <br />Consulting & Construction Services <br />January 6, 2004 <br />Mr. Mike Berdine <br />Twenrymile Coal Company <br />29515 Routt County Road #27 <br />Oak Creek, CO 804b7 <br />RE: Fish Creek Air Shaft -Wetland Delineation <br />Dear Mike, <br />Habitat Management, Inc. has completed a survey for Jurisdictional Waters of the US <br />including wetlands within the disturbance limits for the proposed bleeder shaft and intake <br />shaft projects at Twentymile Coal Company (TMCC). The surveyed areas include the <br />locations of proposed shaft pads and their associated access road corridors. <br />` Wetlands were identified either within or in close proximity to the projected disturbance <br />~r azeas at both project locations. For the bleeder shaft in Section 11, wetlands within the <br />project azea aze located along the eastern edge of the access road at its starting point. <br />Wetlands were also identified in the vicinity of the proposed shaft pad. Aside from these <br />areas the project is located entirely within upland plant communities. At the intake shaft <br />site in Section 17, wetlands are coned to an aiea within an intermittent drainage <br />located within the footprint of the proposed shaft pad. <br />Enclosed is a draft copy of a wetland delineation report and map containing a detailed <br />description of the wetland communities present on each proposed site. Our current scope <br />of work does not include preparing a final report for submittal to the US Army Corps of <br />Engineers (COE). Please note that this draft report is incomplete in terms of containing <br />all of the information required to meet the minimum standards for wetland delineation <br />reports submitted to the Sacramento District of the COE. The scope of this project is to <br />provide you with baseline data and information to proceed with the planning process and <br />fanalize disturbance boundaries. <br />This draft report contains a synopsis of the field work and all of the field data and forms <br />required to complete the report for submittal to the COE. Completing the COE report <br />will require incorporating aspects of the soil report, as well as information on property <br />ownership. A detailed map of the delineated wetlands been produced to accompany the <br />- I4 Inverness t7rive East, Suite G-Z28, Englewood, CO 80122 <br />