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January 26, 2016 C-1992-081/Hayden Gulch Loadout JHB <br /> <br /> <br />Number of Partial Inspection this Fiscal Year: 5 <br />Number of Complete Inspections this Fiscal Year: 2 <br /> <br /> Page 2 of 4 <br /> <br /> <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 />N - Availability of Records <br />Y - Backfill & Grading <br />NA - Excess Spoil and Dev. Waste <br />NA - Explosives <br />N - Fish & Wildlife <br />R - Hydrologic Balance <br />R - Gen. Compliance With Mine Plan <br />N - Other <br />NA - Processing Waste <br /> <br />R - Roads <br />N - Reclamation Success <br />N - Revegetation <br />NA - Subsidence <br />N - Slides and Other Damage <br />Y - Support Facilities On-site <br />N - Signs and Markers <br />NA - Support Facilities Not On-site <br />NA - Special Categories Of Mining <br />N - Topsoil <br /> <br /> <br />COMMENTS <br /> <br />This was a partial inspection consisting of review of aerial photos collected by Harry Ranney of DRMS on <br />1/26/2016. Janet Binns of DRMS reviewed the photos on 1/28/2016. The site is an inactive train loadout that is <br />predominately reclaimed and includes a haul road that is no longer used for coal haulage. HGTI reports that Routt <br />County Road and Bridge Department maintains and plows the haul road. Although HGTI has posted the road with <br />Private road no trespassing signs, the public and county use the road as if it were a public road. <br /> <br />The load out site is snow covered with no apparent activity on the site, aside from non-mining use of the haul road. <br />HYDROLOGIC BALANCE - Rule 4.05 <br />Impoundments 4.05.6, 4.05.9; Stream Buffer Zones 4.05.18: <br /> The truck loop pond is frozen and snow covered. Based upon the fence visible through the snow, it <br />appears that the snow depth is 2 1/2 to 3 feet deep on the site. <br /> <br />The rail loop pond is snow covered. It does not appear that there was a pool of water in the pond prior to the snow <br />cover. <br /> <br />GENERAL MINE PLAN COMPLIANCE: <br /> The site is inactive with no evidence of any activity other than plowing of the haul road. Few animal track <br />were visible in the snow as well. No activity was observed at the reclaimed office/parking lot area. <br /> <br />ROADS – Rule 4.03 <br /> <br />Surfacing and Maintenance 4.03.1(5) and (6)/4.03.2(5) and (6) <br /> The Tie-across Haul road (TAHR) had been plowed. No activity had occurred on the rail line. <br /> <br />