PERMFILE132157

• Permit No: C1981041A
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 5/13/2002
• Section_Exhibit Name: Tab 5 Cultural Resources
• Media Type: D
• Archive: Yes

INTRODUCTION:
This inventory report is submitted in compliance with the stipulations
of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1973, Executive Order
11953, and Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act. It
was prepared at the request of the Bureau of Land Management, U.S.
Department of the Interior, 6r and Junction, Colorado, District and
Area Office.
Subject: Special use permit for land and road use in connection with
coal mining activity in Coal Canyon and Coal Gulch near Cameo,
Colorado. The land surface impacted by this activity consists of 1.)
the relatively level areas lying approximately 1,000 feet to either
side of the mine portal and extending south to Coal Canyon road,'which
is approximately 1,200 feet at its maximum distance from the mine
portal; 2.) Coal Canyon Road (unimproved) from the entrance to the
mine portal to Coal Gulch Road, a distance of approximately
three-quarters of a mile; and 3.) Coal Gulch, which is entered by an
unimproved road running generally southwest from Coal Canyon Road and
which extends below the east face of Mount Lincoln a distance of
approximately two miles. The area adjacent to the coal mine portal
off Coal Canyon Road would be used for the placement of mining
• equipment and the movement of heavy vehicles. Coal Gulch would be
used for the deposit of refuse from the coal mine.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
This inventory was conducted March 20th and 22nd, 1977 in three parts,
vii. (1.) The impacted area at the mine portal and its environs;
~2) Coal Canyon Road and adjacent suspect areas from the portal area
to a point immediately north of Mount Lincoln, a distance of
approximately one and three-quarters miles, and approximately one mile
beyond the Coal Gulch turn-off; (3.) Coal Gulch. (Ref. U.S.G.S. 7.5
Minute Series, Topographic, Cameo Quadrangel, Colorado - Mesa Co.)
Mine Portal Area: The mine portal area lies in Mesa County, Township
10 South,"Range 98 West, Section 27. It consist of a triangular area
of land lying at the 4800 feet elevation directly north of the Cameo
Power Plant, and abutting a precipitous sandstone butte rising 1,200
feet above it. The area being described is bounded on the SW by Coal
Canyon Road and on the SE by the Government Highline Canal. The area
consists of a thick deposit of alluvium which has washed down from the
adjacent Mount Garfield formation sandstone butte. The soil is
leached and caked into a hard pan, and supports no vegetation. The
mine portal lies about 50 feet below the surface of the talus, and has
been exposed by the excavation of a roadway leading to it. (See
Plates I, II, III.)