PERMFILE106844

• Permit No: C1981034
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 7/1/1998
• Doc Name: pg 157 to 165
• Section_Exhibit Name: SECTION 2.06 Special Categories of Mining
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

2.06.8(3)(b)(iii)
The Land Use Map, 2.04.3(2)(a)-1, shows the lands within and
adjacent to the permit area that are used for farming and grazing
activities. As previously noted, there are no lands which are
considered flood irrigated with or adjacent to the permit area.
The Vegetation Information, Section 2.04.10, and the Soil and
Vegetation Map, 2.04.9-1, describe and illustrate the vegetation
in the permit area.
As described in the General Requirements: Site Description and
Land Use Information, Section 2.04.3, there are approximately
914 acres of pasture or grazing land and approximately 263 acres
of apple orchards in the land within and adjacent to the permit
area.
Soil Conservation Service productivity information for the area
of the Red Canyon #1 i4ine and proposed #2 Mine and adjacent areas
is as follows:
Apple Orchards
Pasture with Alfalfa
Pasture without Alfalfa:
800 - 900 bushels per acre
3 tons per acre
2 tons per acre
In conversations with the Soil Conservation Service it was learned
that agricultural activities have existed in the permit area and
adjacent areas for the past 70 to 80 years.
None of the agricultural lands identified on the Land Use Map,
2.04.3(2)(a)-1 and on Drawing 2.06.8(3)(b)(ii)-1 utilize flood
irrigation. All employ the "furrow" method.
(iv) Documentation that areas identified in 2.06.8(3) are,
or are not, subirrigated, based on groundwater monitoring data.
representative water quality, soil moisture measurements, and
measurements of rooting depth, soil mottling, and water requirements
of vegetation.
REVISED May 8, 1981 162a