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• activities, and because the paint of diversion for these irrigation <br />systems is upstream from the proposed permit area, quality of <br />irrigation water will not be affected. Any supporting <br />characteristics which are found through monitoring to be affected by <br />mining will be reestablished to baseline conditions, as necessary, <br />to assure the continued potential agricultural utility of the <br />alluvial valley floors. If an alluvial valley floor is affected <br />during the mining and reclamation period, and the impact is found to <br />result from a cause.which is out of CYCC's control, then CYCC hereby <br />commits to restore the affected essential hydrologic function to the <br />eatent possible. However, CYCC will not be held responsible in the <br />event of a call from a downstream senior water right which results <br />in a curtailment of flood irrigation on an alluvial valley floor. <br />• <br />Agricultural Significance <br />The floodplains of Foidel, Middle and Fish Creeks, shown on Map <br />9, Bnergy Mine No. 3 Land 0ae, are in two land use categories: <br />cropland and pastureland. Lands adjacent to the proposed permit and <br />adjacent area are used largely for grazing. <br />The available information on the agricultural productivity of <br />the above areas is contained in the description of existing land <br />uses found under Rule 2.04.3 far areas lying within the proposed <br />persist and adjacent area and in recent Colorado Agricultural <br />Statistics published by USDA (1979). Table 14, Meadow Hay <br />• Vegetation Type, and Table 41, Forage Production, Percent Vegetative <br />Cover and Carrying Capacity by SCS Range Site, contains <br />2.06-34 <br />