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Inspection Topic Summary <br />NOTE: Y= Inspected N =Not Inspected R= Comments Noted V= Violation Issued NA—Not Applicable <br />N - Air Resource Protection <br />R - Availability of Records <br />R - Backfill & Grading <br />N - Excess Spoil and Dev. Waste <br />N - Explosives <br />N - Fish & Wildlife <br />R - Hydrologic Balance <br />N - Gen. Compliance With Mine Plan <br />N - Other <br />N - Processing Waste <br />R - Roads <br />N - Reclamation Success <br />R - Revegetation <br />N - Subsidence <br />N - Slides and Other Damage <br />N - Support Facilities On -site <br />R - Signs and Markers <br />N - Support Facilities Not On -site <br />N - Special Categories Of Mining <br />N - Topsoil <br />COMMENTS <br />This was a complete inspection of the Fruita Mine conducted on Feburary 24, 2014 by Zach Trujillo of Colorado <br />Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety (DRMS). Weather conditions were clear with the temperature around <br />fifty degrees fahrenheit and ground conditions were dry. The mine permit was revoked and the bond forfeited in <br />1994. The Fruita Mine site is fully reclaimed and there was no activity at the mine site at the time of the <br />inspection. <br />AVAILABILITY OF RECORDS — Rule 5.02.4(1): <br />This is a bond forfeiture site and all applicable records are maintained by the Division. <br />BACKFILL and GRADING — Rule 4.14 <br />Contemporaneous Reclamation 4.14.1; Approximate Original Contour 4.14.2; Highwall Elimination 4.14.1(2)(f); <br />Steep Slopes 4.14.2, 4.27; Handling of Acid and Toxic Materials 4.14.3; Stabilization of Rills and Gullies 4.14.6: <br />The backfilled and regraded haul road remains stable. Pitting and roughening was used as part of the reclamation <br />grading process. Pitting has been effecting in prevent erosion and establishing vegetation along the haul road. <br />The backfilled portals remain stable with no issues observed. Erosion has been observed above the portals along <br />an upper sandstone bench which is adding sediment deposition in the area. This erosion is not mine related and <br />due to natural precipitation events and /or runoff from snow melt. <br />The regraded slope below the portals was inspected. No sloughing or instability was observed. <br />