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-38- <br /> The operation is in compliance with the requirements of this section. <br /> XIII. Fish and Wildlife - Rules 2.04.11 , 2.05.6(2) and 4.18 <br /> Information pertaining to fish and wildlife resources is presented in Sections <br /> II.G and II.H of Volume 3 of the permit application. Section IV.M of Volume 4 <br /> of the application contains the fish and wildlife mitigation plan for the <br /> Deserado Mine. Maps 8, 124, 125, 126, 127 and 128 in Volumes 5 and 11 depict <br /> locations of various wildlife species occurrences within and adjacent to the <br /> permit area. <br /> At the time of issuance of the original permanent regulatory program permit, <br /> the permittee had not provided sufficient information regarding fish and <br /> wildlife resources and mitigation measures for their protection. Several <br /> stipulations (Nos. 24, 25, 26, 27 and 28) were attached to the approval. At <br /> this time all of these stipulations have been resolved. <br /> Pursuant to rule 2.07.6(2)(n) and on the basis of available information, the <br /> Division finds that the proposed activities will not affect the continued <br /> existence of threatened or endangered wildlife species or result in the <br /> destruction or adverse modification of their critical habitats. <br /> The operation is in compliance with the requirements of this section. <br /> is <br /> XIV. Prime Farmland - Rules 2.04.12, 2.06.6 and 4.25 <br /> The permittee has provided a discussion pertaining to the non-existence of <br /> prime farmland in the vicinity of the Deserado Mine permit area in Section <br /> II.J.2 of the application. The Soil Conservation Service has issued a <br /> negative determination for the presence of prime farmland within the permit <br /> area. The determination is contained in a letter to the Division from the <br /> Meeker Office of the Soil Conservation Service dated June 9, 1981 . <br /> The permittee has satisfactorily demonstrated that no prime farmland exists <br /> within the ppe�rmit area. The Division finds the operation in compliance with <br /> Rule 2.07.6(2 W. <br /> XV. Operations Description - Rules 2.05.2, 2.05.3(1 ), 2.05.3(2) and 4.01 <br /> The general operations plan for the Deserado Mine is provided in Section IV of <br /> Volume 4 of the revised permit application. <br /> The Deserado Mine is an underground operation utilizing both continuous miners <br /> and longwall mining equipment to extract, over the life of the mine, 2 seams <br /> of coal from the D (uppermost) and B coal seams. Mining operations conducted <br /> during the present permit term will extract coal from the D seam only. The <br /> permittee projects that B seam mining will begin in 1993. At the scheduled <br /> • production rate of 1 .8 million tons of raw coal per year, all proposed mine <br /> areas will be mined out around the year 2010. <br /> Raw coal is transported out of the mine by a conveyor system leading directly <br /> to the D-Portal area wash plant where the coal is crushed, cleaned, and <br /> transported approximately 3.1 miles to the rail loadout facility via an <br /> overland conveyor system. li,Clean coal is then transported by rail to the <br /> 11 <br />