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• <br /> <br />terial ma }' be destroyed during its uncovering. <br />ME5~1 Yenerally requires that people not directly asso- <br />ciated with [he mining prec~ss keep clear of the o~.eration. <br />This would affect the activities oC "casual" archaeologists, <br />paleontologists, and rockhounds. If significant finds are <br />uncovered, the operation could be stopped while pre:essionals <br />survey the resource. It would also affect off-roar vehicle <br />activities on the mine spoils unless special provis;ons <br />could be made. <br />I <br />There would be no potential roadless or wilderness areas <br />impacted by this proposal. <br />i 8. Visual Resources _ <br />i <br />• The largest-scale elements in the landscape cor.tai-'-ng <br />proposed action would be the coal-stripping areas t~emselves. <br />i <br />f <br />However, impacts would also occur from roads and linear <br />i <br />• rights-of-way associated with the coal removal operation. <br />ii <br />I The form of the mined areas caould conflict with irregular <br />patterns occurring naturally, though they can more easily <br />borrow from the rectilinear agricultural pattern at Energy <br />2. Spoil piles would produce a repetitious form o= <br />sharply angular ridges [hat are minus deviations i^. this <br />rolling landscape. ;;~e active pit and adjacent hi~h~.oall <br />introduce additional linear form that is foreign co this <br />• <br />130 <br /> <br />_ .. <br />.._......,: . _ .._. .z.:3 <br />