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October 25, 2017 C-1980-007/West Elk Mine LDS <br /> <br /> <br />Number of Partial Inspection this Fiscal Year: 2 <br />Number of Complete Inspections this Fiscal Year: 2 <br /> <br /> Page 2 of 14 <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 />R - 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 />R - Processing Waste <br /> <br />R - Roads <br />R - Reclamation Success <br />N - Revegetation <br />N - Subsidence <br />Y - Slides and Other Damage <br />R - 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 /> <br /> <br />COMMENTS <br /> <br />This was a complete inspection by Leigh Simmons of the Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety <br />(Division). Mike Peacock of Mountain Coal Company (MCC) accompanied the inspection. The weather was clear <br />and dry. The mine was active. <br /> <br />AVAILABILITY OF RECORDS – Rule 5.02.4(1): <br /> Records were available in Kathy Welt’s office. Details are given at the end of this report. <br /> <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 water level in all sediment ponds was low. <br />Repair work to ditch D5E-31, described in the September inspection report, had not yet begun. <br />The sediment trap at the top of the armored ditch on the west side of the reclaimed slopes of the RPEE <br />was somewhat full and should be addressed by the surface maintenance crew before winter weather sets in. <br /> <br />GENERAL MINE PLAN COMPLIANCE: <br /> At the time of the inspection the longwall was in panel E7, between cross cuts 45 and 46 on the head gate. <br />The continuous miners were at the eastern end of the Sunset Mains. <br />The following permitting actions were in progress: <br /> RN-7, which was found complete on February 1, 2016. The decision due date has been extended to <br />December 15, 2017. <br /> MR-426, adding a new culvert to divert the majority of flows out of ditch D5E-31 prior to the MSB slump <br />toe was submitted electronically the day before and a hardcopy provided prior to the field inspection.