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Environmental Scientists and Engineers, LLC • Colorado Water Quality Control Division (CWQCD) — Compliance with applicable water discharge permitting, operational, monitoring, and reporting requirements • Colorado State Engineers Office — Compliance with well and pond design and construction requirements and water rights requirements • Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) — Highway modification and driveway permits • Colorado Division of Wildlife (CDOW) — Compliance with applicable wildlife protection measures • Colorado Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation (COAHP) — Compliance with applicable provisions of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) Local Agencies • Moffat County — Compliance with applicable requirements for special building and water and sewer permits 1.5 Conformance with Current Land Use Plan For the area of the proposed coal lease, the current land use plan, which guides the BLM, is the Little Snake Resource Management Plan (LSRMP), and associated Record of Decision (LSRMP -ROD), signed on April, 261989, and published June, 1989. The proposed action of issuing a federal coal lease for the proposed coal lease area is consistent with the management objectives of the LSRMP -ROD. The LSRMP -ROD documents BLM's resource analysis and land management decisions and states the following specific objectives for coal: • Maximize the availability of the federal coal estate for exploration and development • Facilitate orderly, economic, and environmentally -sound exploration and development of the coal resource within the principles of balanced multiple - use management The proposed lease area lies entirely within Management Unit 1 (MU -1), the Eastern Yampa River area, one of 17 geographic areas designated by BLM within the LSRMP. For MU -1, the stated management objectives "are to realize the potential for development P: PROJEC1' S` Cblc. r >n.61138..E: \Final`.n1.At -. -E.\ l'ollom OI 110.doc