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EMD (Panels 2 -Right through 6- Right, PR97 -04) -_As with the initial EMD panels (9 -Right through 7- Right), the <br />proposed operations will not impact areas of unusually high value for fish and wildlife. The prior database survey, <br />is which is present in Exhibit 19A, indicates no nesting activity is occurring within the Middle Creek Drainage. The <br />recovery rooms for the southern longwall panels in the EMD will be sufficiently removed from the Twentymile <br />Sandstone outcrop to prevent complete failure of the face. Therefore, the nests located in this section of the <br />Twentymile Sandstone will not be impacted by 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 TR07 -63 <br />TR08 -64, TR09 -68) - _TCC's continued expansion into these areas of the Northern and Western Mining Districts, <br />will not impact areas of unusually high value for fish and wildlife. There are no cliffs in the area that will be <br />subsided, so there is no potential for subsidence impacts to raptors. The Fish Creek Valley will be subsided, as <br />shown on Map 23, resulting in the potential for seasonal flooding of low -lying areas and an increase in groundwater <br />levels, relative to the subsided surface along the margins of drainages channels. Both of these subsidence effects <br />have the potential to result in beneficial increases in riparian vegetation and habitat along the margins of affected <br />drainages. The flooded area will be dictated by surface flows in Fish Creek. During spring runoff, more of the <br />valley will be flooded, with flows and water levels declining, as the runoff abates. Rough approximations of <br />flooded area acreages are presented in the AVF report prepared by SubTerra for these revisions. <br />Protection of the Hydrologic Balance. <br />• <br />• <br />RN08 -05 2.05 -127.1 03/12/10 <br />