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Land Use <br />• Cropland, pastureland, and rangeland are the historical land uses of the proposed permit and adjacent areas, as <br />shown on Map 3, Premising Land Use. During the 1988 - 1993 permit term, no rangeland has been or is expected <br />to be disturbed by the Foidel Creek Mine. <br />Surface subsidence resulted from longwall mining and pillar extraction through retreat mining in the panels, as <br />explained in Exhibit 7, Subsidence Predictions, and described for undermining of a portion of the Fish Creek <br />drainage in Exhibit 7B, Fish Creek AVF/Stream Study, Subsidence Predictions. While subsidence resulted in <br />minor reductions in surface elevations over longwall extraction areas, the soil and vegetation resources which <br />support existing land uses were not disturbed. Subsidence within designated AVF areas may result in minor <br />changes in surface and groundwater movements. Within the area affected by mining, alluvial deposits associated <br />with area streams are of such limited areal extent that their significance relative to agriculture and vegetative <br />production is negligible. Changes in hydrologic conditions which affect these areas are, therefore, of little or no <br />consequence relative to overall land use patterns. Subsidence had no effect on the use of the area for pastureland or <br />cropland. <br />Prior Minine Activity <br />The Mine 2 disturbance, both pre- and post-SMCRA, is shown on Map 5, Surface Geology. This mining related <br />disturbance is designated as "Reclaimed and/or Disturbed" in the map legend. The disturbed area shown totals <br />approximately 1,035 acres. Additionally, the Fish Creek Borehole, ventilation fan, and associated road have been <br />constructed within the mine area. The location of these facilities aze shown on Map 26, Fish Creek Borehole Area <br />Facilities and Access Road. <br />• Recreational Lands <br />One recreational use of the area above the mining is limited deer and small game hunting. Some recreational <br />hiking may be possible, but access into the azea is limited because of surface ownership patterns and adjacent <br />surface mining activities. Because no game fish exist in either the Foidel or Fish Creeks, fishing is not a <br />recreational activity within the area. Since hunting and hiking appear to be the only recreational activities on the <br />areas above mining, subsidence had no effect on recreational uses. <br />Existine Structures <br />Several dwellings exist in the area above and adjacent to the planned production panels in the five-year mine plan <br />(1988 - 1993). All buildings relative to this five-year plan are owned by affiliates of Twentymile Coal Company <br />and are shown on Map 23B, Structures and Renewable Resources. <br />CYCC's mine office is outside the projected angle-of--draw. No influence on the building from subsidence is <br />predicted even under worst case analysis. The mine training center at SE'/. of the SW'/+ of Section 29 is located <br />above the edge of the 1st Main West and will be approximately 50 feet outside of the worst case angle-of--draw due <br />to the 300 foot barrier pillar adjacent to the main entries. The mine training center will be monitored in accordance <br />with the Subsidence Monitoring Program delineated in the response to Rule 2.05.6(6)(c). <br />The third dwelling within the five-year mine plan (1988 - 1993)area is located at the SE'/+ of the SE'/+ Section l9. <br />It is an abandoned, gutted structure in disrepair that which was inspected or monitored. <br />There are three additional occupied dwellings adjacent to planned workings. They are located at the border of <br />Sections 25 and 36 in TSN and R87W. These structures are located in the Fish Creek AVF buffer zone and <br />• <br />APPROVED APR 2 4 2000 <br />Permit Renewal No. 3 2.05-173 I I / I /99 <br />