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EMD (Panels 2-Right through 6-Right, PR97-04) <br />As with the initial EMD panels (9-Right through 7-Right), the proposed operations will not impact areas of <br />unusually high value for fish and wildlife. The prior database survey, which is present in Exhibit 19A, indicates no <br />nesting activity is occumng within the Middle Creek drainage. The recovery rooms for the southern longwall <br />panels in the EMD will be sufficiently removed from the Twentymile Sandstone outcrop to prevent complete <br />failure of the face. Therefore, the nests located in this section of the Twentymile Sandstone will not be impacted by <br />the continuing operations in the EMD. <br />NMD and WMD (Panels 17-Right through 24-Right and 13-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 />result in beneficial increases in riparian vegetation and habitat along the margins of affected drainages. The <br />flooded area will be dictated by surface flows in Fish Creek. During spring runoff, more of the valley will be <br />flooded, with flows and water levels declining as the runoff abates. Rough approximations of flooded area acreages <br />are presented in the AVF report prepared by SubTerra for this revision. <br />Protection of the h drolo~ic balance <br />J <br />TR08-64 <br />2.05-127.1 <br />06/17/08 <br />