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April 21, 2015 C- 1981 - 037 /GEC Strip Mine RDZ <br />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 />NA - Availability of Records <br />N - Backfill & Grading <br />NA - Excess Spoil and Dev. Waste <br />NA - Explosives <br />R - Fish & Wildlife <br />R - Hydrologic Balance <br />NA - Gen. Compliance With Mine Plan <br />N -Other <br />NA - Processing Waste <br />R - Roads <br />R - Reclamation Success <br />N - Revegetation <br />N - Subsidence <br />R - Slides and Other Damage <br />R - Support Facilities On -site <br />N - Signs and Markers <br />NA - Support Facilities Not On -site <br />NA - Special Categories Of Mining <br />NA -Topsoil <br />COMMENTS <br />A complete inspection was conducted by Rob Zuber of DRMS on April 21, 2015. The weather was warm. The <br />ground was muddy in some spots. <br />The GEC Mine was a surface mine. The Division has revoked the bond and terminated the permit, therefore no <br />mine operator remains. All bond monies available to the Division were utilized by the Division for reclamation <br />activities. No reclamation bond money remains to conduct maintenance activities. <br />The site was accessed through the locked green gate located on Fremont County Road No. 92, and a locked gate at <br />the base of the "Monarch Fan Road" next to Southfield's Pond No. 5. <br />FISH and WILDLIFE — Rule 4.18: <br />Two deer were observed on the reclaimed area (East Pit) during the inspection, and animal scat and tracks <br />were observed throughout the reclaimed areas. <br />HYDROLOGIC BALANCE - Rule 4.05 <br />Drainage Control 4.05.1, 4.05.2, 4.05.3; Siltation Structures 4.05.5, 4.05.6; Discharge Structures 4.05.7, 4.05.10; <br />Diversions 4.05.4; Effluent Limits 4.05.2; Ground Water Monitoring 4.05.13; Surface Water Monitoring 4.05.13; <br />Drainage — Acid and Toxic Materials 4.05.8; Impoundments 4.05.6, 4.05.9; Stream Buffer Zones 4.05.18: <br />Pond A, the pond located adjacent to the green gate on Fremont County Road No. 92, is completely full of <br />sediment. Erosion has occurred at the emergency spillway of the embankment. This headcutting feature is <br />approximately 10 feet wide, and the height is approximately five feet. The headcutting does not appear to have <br />progressed further to the south. Large rocks below the embankment have restricted erosion as the flow leaves the <br />site. <br />The channel along the access road is badly eroded; check dams in the channel have been destroyed. <br />Number of Partial Inspection this Fiscal Year: 0 <br />Number of Complete Inspections this Fiscal Year: 2 <br />Page 2 of 10 <br />