2013-04-11_REVISION - C1981018

• Permit No: C1981018
• IBM Index Class Name: Revision
• Doc Date: 4/11/2013
• Doc Name: Letter to SHPO ‎(Emailed)‎ & Attachment
• From: DRMS
• To: SHPO
• Type & Sequence: PR8
• Email Name: ZTT
• Email Name: DIH
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

remains available in GMU 10, is relatively inconsequential to the continued support of big game
populations and raptor nesting functions.
Environmental Consequences of the No Action Alternative:
Direct and Indirect Effects: There would be no use authorized that would have potential
to influence wildlife populations or habitat.
Cumulative Effects: The incremental contribution of lease tract development to
temporary and small scale reductions in forage or cover and habitat disuse associated with
avoidance of activity would not occur.
Stipulations to he Applied as Mitigation:
1. The entire lease tract is subject to big game severe winter range timing limitations. No
development activity is allowed from December 1 through April 30 (RMP exceptions and
modifications apply TL -08).
2. A raptor survey will be required of activities (construction, drilling etc.) that are
scheduled to take place during the raptor nesting season (generally February 1 — August
15) in those areas determined by WRFO to be subject to potential project- related
disturbances. In the event an active nest is located in the course of survey, timing
limitations and no- surface - occupancy provisions, consistent with RMP- approved raptor
protection stipulations, would be applied to the authorization as Conditions of Approval.
3. Surface occupancy is not allowed within 200 meters (burrowing owl, red - tailed hawk)
and 0.25 mile (ferruginous hawk) of identified raptor nests (RMP NSO -02 and NSO -03
exception and modification criteria apply). This no- surface- occupancy stipulation applies
to the following legal subdivisions:
Township 2 North, Range 101 West, Sixth Principal Meridian
Section 17: S� /2SESW;
Section 18: SESW, SWSE;
Section 19: NWNE, S1 /zNE, NENW, N' /2NWSE;
Section 20: W' /2NE, N' /NENW;
Section 21: NWSE;
Section 27: E' /2SW, W' /2SE.
4 No development activities are allowed within 0.25 (burrowing owl, red - tailed hawk) and
1 mile (ferruginous hawk) of special status raptor nests from February 1 through August
15 or until fledging and dispersal of young (RMP TL -3 and TL -04 exception and
modification criteria apply). This timing limitation applies to the following lands:
Township 2 North, Range 101 West, Sixth Principal Meridian
Section 17: SWSW;
Section 18: S� /2NESW, S' /zNE /zSE, SESE, Lot 4, Lot3;
Section 19: NENE, Nl /2SENW, Lot 1;
Section 20: E' /zNE, N' /2NWNW;
Section 21: SWNE, S1 /2NW, NESE;
Section 23: SESE;
Section 26: E' /2NE, NESE;
Section 27: S� /zNE, SENW, SWSW, E' /zSE
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