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12/16!2005 16:04 9709295595 WEST ELK i PAGE 0? <br />2489-04 Well Project Plan <br />1~1mor Revision 332 <br />page s of 1 t <br />winter range and user conflict during big game handing season. Operations will be <br />located such as to not interfere with raptor nesting sites, including Golden and Bald <br />Eagle; and Peregrine Falcon. <br />Additional wildlife information Y ;nin9, to the area is; comained in the report titled, <br />"Box Canyon West Methane Drainage Wells, Wildlife Habitat Evaluations and Inventory <br />for T&E, Sensitive and Management Indicator Species" prepared by Michael Ward <br />Outdoors and Monarch Fi Associates dated Jtme 2005, submitted with the N1k 306 <br />Annual Operating Plan. <br />THREATENED OR ENDANGERED SPECIES <br />i <br />Previous Tlueateaed and Endangered and Sensitive Spada (TE53) clarancx s,aveys <br />have not idertti£ted threatened ar endangered plant or animal. species am West Flatixory <br />Dry Fork, or withua adjacent coal exploration eras of Ravea4 Gulch or Sylvester Gulch. <br />Previous reports tided, `°Ilrtt^atened, Endangered and Sensitive Species Dril[ Site <br />Clearance Survey for Panels 16, 17, and 175, October 200I" sect "Tbmeatened, <br />Endangered and Sensitive Species Clearance Stavey for Panels 18 through 24, West .Elk <br />Mine, October 2001", mdiCate that roue Of the TESS Sper;re3 that COUId potentially OCCtrr <br />within the Gviwison National Foust would be adversely impacted by the proposed <br />l~j~- <br />The Final Rest-Cen>Zal Colorado Coal Environmental Stateme~ prepared by the U.S. <br />Department of the Interior, BLM, 1979 describes the vegetation areas adjacent to the <br />MDW project area on pages 573 through 577. The EIS concluded that no threatened of <br />endangered plants (pp.573-577) exist in the art;a adjacent to the proposed dri.Uing <br />location. The Wildlife Section (pp. 577-582) includes description of ~e lauds associated <br />with the MDWs 19-09, 19-10 and 19-11. The only threatened wildlife species is the bald <br />eagle; which inhabits the North Fork C,tmnison Valley during the winter momhs. <br />Deliat~ of the bald eagle from the US threatened species list is currently proposed. Tbis <br />EIS also concludes that no Threatened or Endangered aquatic species (pp. 580-582) exist <br />in the area <br />Several Enviromnental Analyses have been conducted for the project atea_ One report, <br />the Ravens Gulch EYtploration Atea encompasses the proposed 19-09, 19-10 and 19-11 <br />well pads. The most recent a~oalysis was completed iu 1998 for 19 driii holes and <br />associated temporary access roads. The Decision Memo and Finding of No Sigt-ifiwnt <br />Impact; Mountain Coal Company, Proposed Coal l~jiloration Liceage, as approved by <br />Mr. Ray L. Kingston, Paonia District Ranger (413-98) stated, "The proposed action will <br />not adversely a ,fleet an endangered or tlmeateaed species or its ttitical 1rabitat.° 'the <br />proposed activity of this project is nearly identical to the approved activity on We Ravens <br />Gulch . Exploration Incense and for Longwell Panels 14 and 15_ An Enviromneatal <br />Assessment and corresponding Finding of No Significant Impact was issued by the USES <br />tot Gob Vent De-gas Boreholes 15-01 tbirongh 15-05 is October 2001. <br />