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I . All drilling activity shall cease when soils or road surfaces become saturated to a depth of <br />three inches unless there are safety concerns or activities have prior approval by the <br />Authorized Officer. <br />2. In order to achieve public land health standards for soils, erosion features such as rilling, <br />gullying, piping, and mass wasting on the surface disturbance or adjacent to the surface <br />disturbance as a result of this action will be addressed immediately after observation by <br />contacting the Authorized Officer and by submitting a plan to assure successful soil <br />stabilization with best management practices to address erosion problems. <br />3. If salt is observed on the surface of soils during reclamation activities the Authorized Officer <br />will be notified and a plan will be developed with approval of the BLM to improve <br />reclamation on the site. <br />4. The release of any chemical, oil, petroleum product, produced water, or sewage, etc, <br />(regardless of quantity) must be contained immediately, cleaned up as soon as possible, and <br />reported by the project proponent to the Bureau of Land Management when beyond what <br />could be expected for normal operations. <br />Finding on the Public Land Health Standard #1 for Upland Soils: <br />With mitigation this action is unlikely to reduce the productivity of soils impacted by surface <br />disturbing activities <br />SURFACE & GROUND WATER QUALITY <br />Affected Environment: <br />This project is mostly within the Red Wash watershed with a small portion in Scullion Gulch; <br />both are ephemeral streams that drain into the White River. These watersheds do not contain or <br />directly drain into water bodies on the 303(d) list of impaired water bodies for the State of <br />Colorado. To be listed, impaired water bodies must have been shown to exceed State of <br />Colorado water quality classification standards. These water quality standards may be based on <br />the biological, physical or chemical needs to meet a beneficial use of the water body, such as <br />supporting aquatic life. The 303(d) list was last updated in March of 2012 for Colorado, and <br />would identify water bodies that are not meeting the classification standards for water quality <br />based on monitoring data. It is reasonable to assume that water bodies in Red Wash and Scullion <br />Gulch are meeting water quality classifications, since they are not identified as being impaired. <br />The water quality classification of tributaries to the White River including Red Wash and <br />Scullion Gulch (Segment 13a) from Piceance Creek to Douglas Creek is Aquatic Life Warm 2, <br />Non - contact Recreation, and Agriculture. This segment is protected for warm water aquatic life <br />(Warm 2). The warm designation means the classification standards would be protective of <br />aquatic life normally found in waters where the summer weekly average temperature frequently <br />exceeds 20 °C. The Warm 2 designation means that it has been determined that these waters are <br />not capable of sustaining a wide variety of warm water biota. These waters also have standards <br />that are protective from non - contact recreation and agriculture. Segment 13a is use - protected, <br />meaning that the quality of these waters may be altered by actions so long as applicable use - <br />based water quality classification and standards are met. <br />DOI- BLM -CO -110- 2012 - 0023 -EA 38 <br />