Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Roca Honda Mine

Contents
Table 94. Food stamp enrollment in Cibola and McKinley Counties, 2008-2010 ................... 400
Table 95. Health care insurance and access to health care services .......................................... 401
Table 96. Smoking rates in Cibola and McKinley County ....................................................... 402
Table 97. Impact characterization for public health and safety ................................................ 402
Table 98. MSHA-recorded injuries for underground
uranium mining in the United States, 2006–2009..................................................... 422
Table 99. Uranium worker compensation – April 1992 through June 2007 ............................. 439
Table 100. Unavoidable adverse effects of the three alternatives considered ............................ 443
List of Figures
Figure 1. Jesus Mesa viewed from the south (Section 16)
in the vicinity of the proposed Roca Honda Mine ........................................................ 2
Figure 2. Proposed Roca Honda Mine permit area location map ................................................. 4
Figure 3. Vicinity map of the proposed Roca Honda Mine permit area ...................................... 5
Figure 5. Open house scoping meeting in Gallup, Dec. 16, 2010 ................................................ 9
Figure 4. Open house scoping meeting in Grants, December 14, 2010 ....................................... 9
Figure 6. Cibola National Forest and Grasslands vicinity map .................................................. 20
Figure 7. Mt. Taylor from Acoma Pueblo 20 miles to the south................................................ 21
Figure 8. Looking southeast from the project site toward Mt. Taylor ....................................... 21
Figure 9. New Mexico Environment Department discharge permit process ............................. 23
Figure 10. Flow chart of Section 106 review process .................................................................. 27
Figure 11. Parallel NEPA and Section 106 processes with points of interaction ......................... 28
Figure 12. Regional map depicting proposed
Roca Honda Mine within northern New Mexico ........................................................ 32
Figure 13. View of project area from Section 10 ......................................................................... 33
Figure 14. Power line crossing Section 16 portion of project site ................................................ 33
Figure 15. Proposed Roca Honda Mine – layout of surface facilities .......................................... 35
Figure 16. Layout of surface facilities in Section 16 for the proposed Roca Honda Mine .......... 36
Figure 17. Layout of surface facilities in Section 9 for the proposed Roca Honda Min .............. 37
Figure 18. Layout of surface facilities in Section 10 for the proposed Roca Honda Mine .......... 38
Figure 19. Uranium mine tunnel and haul equipment at Mining Museum in Grants ................... 46
Figure 20. Layout of surface facilities under alternative 3 (one productive shaft alternative) ..... 53
Figure 21. Arroyo originally intended to receive treated water
from Roca Honda Mine at approximate point of discharge ........................................ 59
Figure 22. Bottom of same unnamed arroyo originally intended for water discharge ................. 60
Figure 23. JJ No. 1/L-Bar Mine site (after reclamation) .............................................................. 84
Figure 24. South-north cross-section of Ambrosia Lake disposal cell ......................................... 88
Figure 25. Regional geologic map of northwestern New Mexico ................................................ 98
Figure 26. Regional structural features in the vicinity of the Roca Honda permit area ............... 99
Figure 27. Geologic map of the Roca Honda permit area .......................................................... 101
Figure 28. Typical stratigraphic section of the Morrison Formation ......................................... 103
DEIS for Roca Honda Mine, Cibola National Forest Service xvii