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The discharging of firearms or hunting in the permit area by mine • employees or other individuals will be prohibited. The effect of this prohibition on wildlife will be a significant reduction in poaching or illegal harvesting of wildlife within the permit area. Non-persistent pesticides will be used for control of noxious weeds only as described in Section 2.05.4. Only pesticides having approval of the Environmental Protection Agency and the appropriate Colorado agencies will be used. The restoration of all disturbed areas to a condition similar to or better than pre-mining conditions will have a positive effect on wildlife in the area. The effect of this reclamation practice will be the reconstruction of suitable topographic setting similar to that found in an adjacent undisturbed area. Protection of Hydrologic Balance • Peerless Resources, Inc. intends to utilize a drainage and sediment control plan to minimize any changes to surface water quality and to the prevailing hydrologic balance in both the permit and adjacent areas. The primary method for erosion, sediment and drainage control will be to disturb no more area at the mine, by promptly reclaiming any disturbed areas, by promoting prompt vegetation, by trapping sediment and by detaining runoff as close to the disturbed areas as possible. Diversion structures are planned at the locations shown on the Mine Facilities Map (Ptap,12) and will serve to divert water from the disturbed areas into a sedimentation pond. Temporary structures are designed and will be maintained to handle the amount of runoff from a 10-year, 24-hour precipitation event and will be constructed using proper roughness characteristics, maintenance of appropriate gradients, revegetation, channeling or detention basins, or a combination of one or more of these measures. They will also be maintained to the extent possible to prevent contributions of suspended solids to runoff outside the permit • area. 2.05-43