PERMFILE138196

• Permit No: C1981035A
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 12/11/2001
• Section_Exhibit Name: APPENDIX 6 FISH & WILDLIFE REPORTS
• Media Type: D
• Archive: Yes

STATE OF COLORADO
Ray Romer, Governor
DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES
DIVISION OF WILDLIFE
AN EQVAL OPPORNNnY EMPLOYER
John W. Mumma, Director
6060 Broadway
Denver, Colorado 80216
Telephone: [phone]
Mr. Tom Bird
National King Coal, LLC
4424 C.R. 120
Hesperus, CO 81326
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BiII Clark, Aquatic Habitat Biologist ~~A
7l1 Independent Avenue

Grand Junction, CO 81505 ~®~
[phone]-186
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EMAIL bill.clark®state.co.us i, N D
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YOUa WILOLIfE
July 3, 1997
RE: Threatened and Endangered Species Report for King Coal Mine Lease Modification Area - #C-
81-035
Dear Mr. Bird:
Thank you for your patience with regard to your request of June 2, 1997 for a review of records
• concerning the presence or absence of threatened or endangered (t&e) flora and fauna on your lease
modification lands. District Wildlife Manager Pat Tucker has informed me he knows of no t&e wildlife
species use of your lease modification area. ,
You also inquired about t&e or rare vegetation. Our agency has no management responsibility for
vegetation. However, a relatively new program at Colorado State University, the Colorado Natural
Heritage Program, maintains a comprehensive database of records of flora and fauna of Colorado
including data collected by our agency. I requested a search of their records and they also found no
known occurences of rare, sensitive or t&e flora or fauna on your mine property. However, they
cautioned that information is extremely scarce for that part of Colorado. Rare, sensitive or t&e
vegetation could be present and we just don't have information specific to your property.
You may wish to contact Mr. Rick Krueger, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service which does have
management authority for t&e flora and fauna. He may be contacted at [phone], 764 Horizon
Drive, South Annex A, Grand Junction, CO 81506. If I may be of further assistance, please contact
me at the address and phone number in Grand Junction.
I
Bill Clark
. xc: Bob Clark, Pat Tucker, Kevin Essington (CNHP), Rick Krueger (USFWS)
DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, James Lothhead, Executive Director
WILDLIFE COMMISSION, Arnold Salazar, Chairman • Rebecca Frank, Vice-Chair • Mark LeValley, Secretary Jul}- 199 ~
Louts Swig, Member • Jesse Langston Boyd, Jr., Member • John Slulp, Member • James R. Long, Member • Chuck Lewis, Member