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b) An area under study for designation as unsuitable for surface coal mining operations <br />(2.07.6(2)(d)(ii)); <br />c) The boundaries of the National Park System, the National Wildlife Refuge System, the <br />National System of Trails, the National Wilderness Preservation System, the Wild and <br />Scenic Rivers System including rivers under study for designation, and National <br />Recreation Areas (2.07.6(2)(d)(iii)(A)); <br />d) Three hundred feet of any public building, school, church, community or institutional <br />building, or public park (2.07.6(2)(d)(iii)(B)); <br />e) One hundred feet of a cemetery (2.07.6(2)(d)(iii)(C)); <br />f) The boundaries of any National Forest unless the required finding of compatibility has <br />been made by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. (2.07.6(2)(d)(iii)(D)); <br />g) One hundred feet of the outside right-of-way line of any public road except where mine <br />access or haul roads join such line, and excepting any roads for which the necessary <br />approvals have been received, notices published, public hearing opportunities provided, <br />and written findings made (2.07.6(2)(d)(iv)); <br />A public notice for PR 06 was published for four consecutive insertions beginning on <br />April 17, 2008. The public notice included information that the proposed mining area <br />underlies portions of the northern 1.2 miles of Rio Blanco County Road 65. The public <br />notice provided the opportunity for written comments, objections, and requests for a <br />public hearing within thirty (30) days of the last publication which was published on May <br />8, 2008. No comments, objections, or requests for a public hearing were received within <br />the thirty day comment period. <br />h) Three hundred feet of an occupied dwelling. (2.07.6(2)(d)(v)). <br />5. Information pertaining to cultural and historic resources can be found in Section ILA of <br />Volume 1 and on Map No. 3 of Volume 5 of the revised permit application. <br />Cultural resource data for the Deserado Mine is contained in three survey report documents <br />and several "addendums" prepared for Western Fuels -Utah, an earlier permittee. The 1979 <br />report prepared by Pioneer Associates recorded 14 sites and 39 isolated finds in the Deserado <br />permit area, of which none were recommended as eligible. A third report, based on a survey <br />of a bypass lease, recorded one site and three isolated finds. Thus, as a result of several <br />surveys, a total of 55 sites, 49 isolated finds, and 16 localities have been recorded within the <br />Deserado permit area. <br />The site total is comprised of 5 historic, 4 historic/prehistoric and 46 prehistoric sites. The <br />historic sites include mine workings, homesteads, and coyote traps. Prehistoric sites <br />comprise several rock art sites, numerous lithic scatters and a number of "campsites." The <br />Deserado Mine 15 September 19, 2008