1982-11-04_GENERAL DOCUMENTS - C1981019

• Permit No: C1981019
• IBM Index Class Name: General Documents
• Doc Date: 11/4/1982
• Doc Name: Mining Permit ‎(Dated 11/4/1982 to 11/4/1987)‎
• Permit Index Doc Type: Permit Legal Document
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

year preceding August 3 , 1977 and at that time was located
within or adjacent to alluvial valley floors ► the proposed
surface coal mining Operations would :
( A ) Not interrupt , discontinue , or preclude farmin7
on alluvial valley floors that are irrigated or naturally
subirrigated, excluding undeveloped range lands which are
not significant to farming -on said alluvial valley floors
and tnose lands upon which the board has found that the farm-
ing which will be interrupted, discontinued , cr precluded
is of such small - acreage as to oe of negligible imoact on
said land' s agricultural production ; or
(B) Not materially damage the quantity or quality
of surface water or groundwater systems that supply the
alluvial valley floors described in sub-subparagrapn (A ) of
this subparagraph ( I ) .
f) To the extent that the applicant proposes to
extract coal by surface methods , and where the private min-
eral estate has been severed from the private surface estate,
the applicant has . submit.ted to ti-,e division :
( I ) The written consent of the surface owner to the
extraction of coal by surface coal mining ; or
( II ) A conveyance that expressly grants or reserves
the right to extract the coal by surface coal miring , or ,
if the conveyance does not expressly grant the right to
extract coal by surface coal mining► other legal documenta-
tion supporting applicant ' s right of entry in accordance
with state law. (Nothing in the permit shall be construed
as an adjudication of any property right. )
g) Subject to valid rights existing as of August
3, 1977 , and with the Further exception of those surface
coal mining operations which were in existence on August 3,
19779 the application :
( I ) Does not include any lands within the boundaries
of units of the national park system, the national wildlife
refuge systems, the national system of trails , the national
wilderness preservation system , the wild and scenic rivers
system, including study rivers designated under said act ,
and national recreation areas designated by act of the United
States Congress ;
( II ) Does not include any federal lands within the
boundaries of any national forest, except to the extent
that the Secretary of the United States Department of Agri -
cult-ire - has found that there are no significant recreational ',
timoer , economic, or other values which may be incompatible
with such sarface mining operations . and :
( A) Surface Operations and impacts are incident to
an underground coal mine; or
( 8 ) Wnere the Secretary of the United States Cepart-
ment of Agriculture has determined , with respect to lands
in national forests which do not have significant forest
cover, that surface mining is in compliance with the "Multi -
ple-Use Sustained-Yield Act of 190011 , as amerced , the "Fed-
eral Coal Leasing Amendments Act of 1975" ► as amended • the
"National Forest Management Act of 19761",p as amended , .and
the provisions of article 33 Of title 347 C .R .S . 1973 .
-2-