1983-09-01_PERMIT FILE - C1981017

• Permit No: C1981017
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 9/1/1983
• Doc Name: Mining and Reclamation Plan Approval Package
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

separately or cumulatively, since there are no
bedrock water supply wells completed in the
region hydrologically adjacent to the mines.
Also, the potential for impacting future use of
bedrock ground water is low due to the depth of
drilling required and to the problems of
accessing steep slopes on private and U.S. Forest
Service land.
The quality and quantity of the alluvial aquifers
of Fourmile Creek, Thompson Creek and Coal Creek
will not be cumulatively impacted during the
first 5-year permit period of the three mines.
There is a possibility of qualitative and
quantitative impacts on Coal Creek in the distant
future when and if, the North Thompson Creek
Mines progress into the Coal Creek Drainage.
There is a minor potential for the Coal Basin
Mine loadout and the North Thompson Creek Mine
loadout to cumulatively impact the quality and
quantity of ground water in the Roaring Fork
alluvium, since both loadouts are located on this
alluvial body. However, both of these loadouts
have limited surface disturbance, small amounts
of disturbed drainage to handle, and much of the
disturbed drainage water is going into total
containment lined ponds. Therefore, that minor
amount of polluted drainage which may escape from
the drainage control system will negligibly
impact the quality of the vast amounts of Roaring
Fork alluvial water.
The greatest cumulative ground-water impact will
be the indirect depletion of surface-water flow
through the ground-water system to the mine
workings. The surface mining operations proposed
under the application have been designed to
prevent damage to the hydrologic balance in
associated off-site areas. [2.07.6(2)(c),
786.19(c); see page 26-43 of CMLRD'•s decision
document]
3. After reviewing the description of the proposed permit area, CMLRD
and OSM determines this area is:
a. Not included within an area designated unsuitable for surface
coal mining operations. [2.07.6(2)(d)(i) , see page 63 of
CMLRD's Decision Document]
b. Not within an area under study for designating lands unsuitable
for surface coal mining operations. [2.07.6(2)(d)(ii)]
C. Not on any lands subject to the prohibitions or limitations of
30 CFR 761.11(a) (national parks, etc.) , 761.11(f) (public
buildings, etc.) , and 761.11(g) (cemeteries). [786.19(d)(3)]