2010-05-14_REVISION - C1980007 ‎(7)‎

• Permit No: C1980007
• IBM Index Class Name: REVISION
• Doc Date: 5/14/2010
• Doc Name: Incompleteness Responses
• From: Mountain Coal Company
• To: DRMS
• Type & Sequence: TR121
• Email Name: TAK
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

Biological Evaluation
TABLE OF CONTENTS
SUMMARY .................................................................................................,.....................................
1.0 INTRODUCTION .....................................................................................................................2
2.0 DESCRIPTION OF THE ALTERNATIVES ............................................................................2
2.1 Alternative I .........................................................................................................................................................2
2.2 Alternative 2 .........................................................................................................................................................2
2.3 Alternative 3 ..........................................................................................................................................................4
3.0 PROJECT LOCATION AND DESCRIPTION ......................................................................5
3.1 Project Location ...................................................................................................................................................5
3.2 Description of Habitat .......................................................................................................................................7
4.0 SENSITIVE FISH AND WILDLIFE SPECIES CONSIDERED AND EVALUATED .......... 8
4.1 Status in the Project Area / Environmental Baseline ...............................................................................
4.1.1 Loggerhead Shrike ................................................................................................................................ 11
4.1.2 Northern Goshawk ............................................................................................................................. 12
4.1.3 Northern Leopard Frogs .................................................................................................................... 12
4.1.4 Olive-sided Flycatchers ....................................................................................................................... 12
4.1.5 Peregrine Falcons ................................................................................................................................. 12
4.1.6 Purple Martin ......................................................................................................................................... 13
4.1.7 Spotted Bat ............................................................................................................................................ 13
4.1.8 Townsend's Big-eared Bat .................................................................................................................. 13
4.2 Direc t and Indirect Effects ............................................................................................................................. 13
4.2.1 Alternative I .......................................................................................................................................... 13
4.2.2 Alternative 2 ........................................................................................................................................... 14
4.2.3 Alternative 3 ........................................................................................................................................... 16
4.3 Cumulative Effects ............................................................................................................................................ 18
4.3.1 Alternative I ........................................................................................................................................... 18
4.3.2 Alternatives 2 and 3 .....................................................................................................•........................ 18
5.0 SENSITIVE PLANTS SPECIES CONSIDERED AND EVALUATED .............................. 19
5.1 Direct and Indirect Effects ............................................................................................................................. 22
5.1.1 Alternative I ..........................................................................................................................................22
5.1.2 Alternative 2 .......................................................................................................................................... 22
S. 1.3 Alternative 3 ........................................................................................................................................... 22
5.2 Cumulative Effects ............................................................................................................................................ 23
5.2.1 Alternative I ..........................................................................................................................................23
52.2 Alternative 2 and 3 .............................................................................................................................. 23
6.0 DETERMINATION OF EFFECTS ON SENSITIVE WILDLIFE AND PLANT SPECIES23
7.0 LITERATURE CITED ........................................................................................................... 26
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