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<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 />R - Gen. Compliance With Mine Plan <br />N - Other <br />N - Processing Waste <br /> <br />R - Roads <br />Y - Reclamation Success <br />Y - Revegetation <br />N - Subsidence <br />N - Slides and Other Damage <br />R - 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 partial and unannounced Office of Surface Mining (OSM) partial oversight inspection of the Southfield <br />Mine conducted by Zach Trujillo of Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety (DRMS) and Christine <br />Belka of the OSM on May 15, 2017. No operator was present during the inspection. The weather was sunny and <br />ground conditions were dry. Temperatures during the inspection were around eighty degrees fahrenheit. <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 Struc tures 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 Magpie Diversion Ditch was inspected. The ditch was stable and armored with rip rap along the base of the <br />channel. As noted in previous inspections, maintenance has been requested by the Division multiple times and has <br />yet to be completed. The side embankment is devoid of rip rap and needs to be armored as approved by the permit. <br />No erosion was observed along the devoid area or the remaining area of the ditch. <br /> <br />Magpie Diversion Ditch. <br />GENERAL MINE PLAN COMPLIANCE: <br />The Division has found Energy Fuels Coal, Inc. not in compliance of the Color ado Surface Coal Mining <br />Reclamation Act and Regulations of the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board for Coal Mining. A total of <br />three violations are being issued with this report.