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?MgNT OF Ty <br />QPQ ?i <br />c? ym <br />? a <br />9RCH 3. ?a <br />United States Department of the Interior <br />IN REPLY REFER TO: <br />ES/CO:OSM <br />TAILS: 65413-2008-TA-0066 <br />FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE <br />Ecological Services <br />764 Horizon Drive, Building B <br />Grand Junction, Colorado 81506-3946 <br />January 28, 2008 <br />RECEIVED <br />JAN 3 0 2008 <br />uiv,,,-- - .,-.,amation, <br />Memorandum Mining and Safety <br />To: Natural Resource Specialist, Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and <br />Enforcement, Denver, Colorado . . <br />From: Western Colorado Supervisor, Fish and Wildlife Service, Ecological Services, <br />Grand Junction, Colorado C?xxAw R• <br />Subject: Comments on Technical Revision 16 for cClane Canyon Mine, <br />Permit No. C-1980-004 <br />This is in response to a letter dated January 3, 2008, received from the Colorado Division of <br />Reclamation, Mining, and Safety, regarding Technical Revision 16 for the McClane Canyon <br />Mine, Permit No. C-1980-004. The McClane Canyon Mine is an underground coal operation <br />approximately 19 miles north of Loma, on private property and lands managed by the Bureau of <br />Land Management, in Garfield County, Colorado. The proposed action is construction of a coal <br />mine waste disposal site within the McClane Canyon Mine permit area, near the existing <br />sediment pond and soil stockpiles. The disposal site would disturb approximately 4.75 acres and <br />would include a new sedimentation pond in addition to soil stockpiles. <br />The letter states the Division is coordinating with your office on evaluation of the potential <br />impacts to threatened or endangered species, or to wildlife species otherwise protected by <br />Federal law. We are providing you the following list of federally listed, threatened and <br />endangered-species,-and cddates for potential future listing, that could be affected by the <br />proposed development and should be evaluated in the analysis: - - - - <br />Bonytail Gila elegans E <br />Canada lynx Lynx canadensis T <br />Colorado pikeminnow Ptychocheilus lucius E <br />Phacelia submutica De Beque phacelia C <br />Hum back,chub Gila cypha E <br />Mexican spotted owl Strix occidentalis lucida T <br />Penstemon debilis Parachute beardtongue C <br />Razorback sucker Kyrauchen texanus E <br />Sclerocactus glaucus Uinta Basin hookless cactus T <br />Yellow-billed cuckoo Coccyzus americanus C <br />.1-aiiy ?,ZI«U uucaLGtteU; n - federally listed endangered; C = a Federal candidate species)