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EMD (Panels 2-Right through 6-Right, PR97-04) <br />As with the EMD, the proposed operations will not impact areas of unusually high value for fish and wildlife. The <br />.prior database survey, which is present in Exhibit 19A, indicates no nesting activity is occurring within the Middle <br />Creek drainage. The recovery rooms for the southern longwall panels in the EMD will be sufficiently removed <br />from the Twentymile Sandstone outcrop to prevent complete failure of the face. Therefore, the nests located in this <br />section of the Twentymile Sandstone will not be impacted by the continuing operations in the EMD. <br />NMD and WMD (Panels 17-Right through 25=Right and 12-Left through 17-Left, PR 03-06, PR06-07, and <br />TR07-63) <br />TCC's continued expansion into these areas of the North and West Mining Districts, will not impact areas of <br />unusually high value for fish and wildlife. There are no cliffs in the area that will be subsided, so there is no <br />potential for subsidence impacts to raptors. The Fish Creek valley will be subsided, as shown on Map 23, resulting <br />in the potential for seasonal flooding of low-lying areas and an increase in groundwater levels, relative to the <br />subsided surface along the margins of drainages channels. Both of these subsidence effects have the potential to <br />increase riparian vegetation and habitat along the margins of affected drainages. The flooded area will be dictated <br />by surface flows in Fish Creek. During spring runoff, more of the valley will be flooded, with flows and water <br />levels declining as the runoff abates. Rough approximations of flooded area acreages are presented in the AVF <br />report prepared by SubTerra for this revision. <br />Protection of the hvdrologic balance. <br />• <br />• <br />TR07-63 2.05-127.1 09/14/07 <br />