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June 23, 2016 C-1982-056/Foidel Creek Mine JHB <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 />N - Hydrologic Balance <br />N - Gen. Compliance With Mine Plan <br />N - Other <br />N - Processing Waste <br />N - Roads <br />N - Reclamation Success <br />R - Revegetation <br />N - Subsidence <br />R - Slides and Other Damage <br />N - Support Facilities On-site <br />N - 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 partial inspection conducted by Janet Binns of DRMS. Brian Watterson of Twentymile Coal Company <br />accompanied the inspection. The focus of the inspection was to observe mitigation efforts to by the operator to <br />comply with abatement steps required by NOV-2016-001. <br />The weather was warm and overcast. There had been a brief late afternoon thunderstorm the receding day. <br />REVEGETATION — Rule 4.15 <br />Vegetative Cover; Timing: <br />Twentymile Coal Company seeded the Fish Creek Borehole coal fine spill repaired area. <br />SLIDES and DAMAGE - Rule 4.12: <br />On May 10, 2016, the Division observed unconfined coal fines spilled outside of the runoff control <br />structures and outside of the approved permit disturbance boundary at the Fish Creek Borehole. The Division <br />issued NOV CV -2016-001 on May 19, 2016. <br />The Division required three abatement steps to mitigate the damage caused by the coal fine spill. The first <br />abatement step was complied with on May 26, 2016. <br />Abatement steps No. 2 and No. 3 were initially required to be completed by June 15, 2016. The operator requested <br />that the time for abatement be extended to June 23, 2016. On June 22, 2016, the Division was informed that <br />abatement steps No. 2 and No. 3 were completed. The Division inspected the repairs to the Fish Creek borehole <br />coal fine spill area on June 23, 2016. <br />The operator had scraped up the coal fines that had spilled to the west of the dewatering borehole. The fines had <br />not reached Fish Creek. The operator had removed fencing to thoroughly remove the coal fines, then re -erected <br />the fences. The area had been scarified, seeded, and straw wattles staked down to aid in erosion control. The <br />Number of Partial Inspection this Fiscal Year: 9 <br />Number of Complete Inspections this Fiscal Year: 4 <br />Page 2 of 7 <br />