PERMFILE113432

• Permit No: C1981024
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 12/11/2001
• Section_Exhibit Name: EXHIBIT 8 VEGETATION DIVERSITY CRITERIA
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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July 27, 1982
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DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES
D. Monte Pascoe, Executive Director
MLVED LA~iD RECLAMATI0~1
423 Centennial Building, 7373 Sherman Street
Denver, Colorado 80203 Tel.[phone]
David C. Shelton
Director
Mr. Rade Orell
Colorado Coal Mining Company
105 East Riowa, Suite 200
Colorado Springs, Colorado 80901
EE: File No. C-024-81, Colorado Coal Mine No. 1
Dear Mr. Orell:
The Division has decided that the pinyon-juniper. type community that is
found within the proposed pit area of your mining operation is a minor
• community because it is one of two communities in the area and only
comprises 4.6X of the total area to be disturbed.
Division policy does not require that quantitative sampling requirements
be met for minor vegetative communities. A qualitative description is
required and this had already been provided.
Therefore, it is agreed that a grassland community type shall be reestablished
in all disturbed areas at the mine and revegetation success standards for
the entire site will be set using grassland community information.
We will continue to work with you to establish acceptable species diversity
success criteria. I am enclosing 2 examples of how this issue has been
addressed by the Division and other companies in the past.
The Division has taken another look at the sections of the permit application
that address surface water and the hydrologic balance in general. At this
time the Division's position is that baseline quality and quantity data
must be collected for the two mayor arroyos at the earliest possible
opportunity but prior to any major disturbance occurring within 500 feet
of the arroyos. This data gathering must continue throughout the life of
the mine.
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