OCR Scan (approximately)

This OCR scan may contain automatically generated text as generated using Apache Tika and Tesseract. It may not be correct. No effort has been made to correct any of these scans (so far). These OCR scans are also used in the site's Search feature. Please review the Search Policy for details about the site features. The OCR scan is provided here for reference purposes. It provides searchable text when the underlying document might not. But the scan process may not always work perfectly.

United States Department of the Interior
OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING.
RECLAMATION AND ENFORCEMENT
‘Charleston Field Oice
1027 Virginia Steet, East
Charleston, West Virginia 25301
Lesa Baker, Project Coordinator
Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy
Division of Mined Land Reclamation
3405 Mountain Empire Rd.
Big Stone Gap, VA 24219
Dear Mrs. Baker,
OSMRE has thoroughly reviewed DMLR’s CE regarding the Golden Pond Gob Pile Project, Site
18302, and determined the project conforms to the exclusion criteria in the Department of the
Interior, Departmental Manual, Part 516, DM 6, Chapter 13, and is excluded from further NEPA
compliance.
Accordingly, pursuant to section 4-160-50D.3 of the Federal Assistance Manual, and section
403(b) of SMCRA, you are authorized to proceed with this project and expend Federal funds in
accordance with AML grant terms and conditions. In accordance with OSM Directive AML-1,
please update the Abandoned Mine Land Inventory System (e-AMLIS) from “unfunded” to
“funded” based on your budget estimate for the project.
chard W. Buckley, Chief
Field Support Branch
Enclosure
socioeconomics)
(_) Fish and Wildlife
| V. RESPONSIBLE OFFICIAL CERTIFICATION
Signature: esa Baker Date: October 16, 2018
Lesa Baker
AML Project Coordinator
Vi. OSM DETERMINATION
X __ This project conforms with the exclusion criteria in 516 DM 6,
Appendix 8, and is excluded from further NEPA compliance.
not conform with the exclusion criteria in 516 DM 6,
requires an environmental assessment.
Date:_Alou. O18