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Section 2.04.12 Prime Farmland Investigation <br />32. Similar to the comments concerning soils and vegetation, eventually, BRL will need to address a <br />prime farmland demonstration when surface disturbances are proposed for the west mine expansion <br />area. <br />Section 2.05.2 Estimated Area for Life of Operation <br />33. Please update the acreages listed on revised page 2.05-1. <br />Section 2.05.3 Operation Plan <br />34. On revised pages 2.05-15 and 2.05-21, reference is made to the Quonset but and Map 42. Please <br />remove the reference to Map 42 since TR-66 has been withdrawn. <br />35. Please remove references to the Terror Creek shaft and escape system on revised page 2.05-21 since <br />TR-66 was withdrawn. <br />36. In the last paragraph on revised page 2.05-48, please explain why the statement is made that drill hole <br />BRL-1-03-01 might also be known as BRL-04-01. <br />37. The Active Monitoring Wells Completion Summary Table that is currently provided in the PAP on page <br />2.05-83 appears to have been removed from the permit text. This table contains critical information that <br />needs to be retained in the permit document. Please ensure that this table is updated for the revised <br />groundwater monitoring plan if needed and reincorporated into the PAP. <br />Section 2.05.5 Postmining Land Uses <br />38. In the second paragraph on revised page 2.05-85, please update the disturbed area acreage range. <br />39. In the next to the last paragraph on revised page 2.05-85, please update the second sentence to <br />acknowledge that land other than that owned by the applicant has also been disturbed. <br />40 In the last paragraph on revised page 2.05-85, please update the first sentence to show that other <br />landowners are involved. <br />41. As was brought up in Section 2.04.3 above, in the second sentence of the last paragraph on revised <br />page 2.05-85, please update, if appropriate, the statement that Delta County does not have any land <br />use regulations. There is an example of county approval in the middle of revised page 2.05-87. <br />Section 2.05.6 Mitigation of the Impacts of Mining Operations <br />42. Please add the Rare Earth Science Threatened & Endangered Species Inventory, dated December 5, <br />2007, to the discussion on revised page 2.05-98 in Section 2.05.6(2)(a)(iii)(A-C). <br />6