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June 1, 2016 C-1981-041/Roadside Portals BFB <br /> <br /> <br />Number of Partial Inspection this Fiscal Year: 8 <br />Number of Complete Inspections this Fiscal Year: 4 <br /> <br /> Page 2 of 5 <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 />N - 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 /> <br />N - Roads <br />R - Reclamation Success <br />N - Revegetation <br />R - 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 /> <br /> <br />COMMENTS <br /> <br />This was a complete inspection of the Roadside Portals Mine conducted by Brock Bowles of the Colorado <br />Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety. Tonya Hammond, company representative for Snowcap Coal <br />Company (SCC) was present for the inspection. The weather conditions were clear and warm. The temperature <br />was approximately 80 F and the ground was dry. <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 /> The ditch that supplies water to the Carey Pond was dry. The ditch that goes north of the Carey Pond was <br />also dry. <br /> <br />RECLAMATION SUCCESS - Rule 4.15, Rule 3: <br /> Cedar Creek and Associates (CCA) were at the Roadside Mine conducting vegetation sampling. CCA <br />was following sampling protocols according to the approved permit. <br /> <br />Desirable grasses and shrubs in the former pond 7 area were blooming. There were no signs of erosion. <br /> <br />Substations A and B were well vegetated and did not have signs of erosion. <br /> <br />There were many wavyleaf thistle plants in and around the shadscale reference area. Wavyleaf thistle is a native <br />thistle and is not on the noxious weed list. It therefore does not need to be treated. <br /> <br />The Roadside borrow area was well vegetated and did not have signs of erosion. The reclaimed light use road <br />above the borrow area had some grasses and shrubs established but it was mostly dominated by cheatgrass. It <br />must be noted that the area surrounding the road is completely dominated by cheatgrass (photo 1).