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November 29, 2017 C-1981-019/Colowyo Coal Mine ZTT <br /> <br /> <br />Number of Partial Inspection this Fiscal Year: 6 <br />Number of Complete Inspections this Fiscal Year: 2 <br /> <br /> Page 2 of 8 <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 />R - Backfill & Grading <br />N - Excess Spoil and Dev. Waste <br />N - Explosives <br />R - 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 />R - Reclamation Success <br />N - 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 />R - Topsoil <br /> <br /> <br />COMMENTS <br /> <br />his was a Division partia inspection of the Colowyo Mine conducted by Zach Trujillo of Colorado Division of <br />Reclamation, Mining and Safety (DRMS) on November 29 - 30, 2017. Tony Tennyson representing Tri-State <br />Generation and Transmission Association (Tri-State) and Kurtis Blunt and Angela Aalbers representing Colowyo <br />Coal Company (Colowyo) accompained the inspection. The weather for inspection was clear and ground <br />conditions were dry. Tempeture during the inspection was around fifty five degrees fahrenheit. <br />AVAILABILIT Y OF RECORDS – Rule 5.02.4(1): <br />All records are kept on site at the Colowyo Mine’s office building. Please see the Division’s Availability of <br />Records checklist at the end of this inspection report for more detailed information. <br /> <br />BACKFILL and GRADING – Rule 4.14 <br />Contemporaneous Reclamation 4.14.1; Approximate Original Contour 4.14.2; Highwall Elimination 4.14.1(2)(f); <br />Steep Slopes 4.14.2, 4.27; Handling of Acid and Toxic Materials 4.14.3; Stabilizatio n of Rills and Gullies 4.14.6: <br />Backfilling operations continue within the South Taylor Pit. <br /> <br />The 2017 reclamation parcels were nearing completion for the season. Areas were well compacted and conformed <br />to previously reclaimed parcels. No signs of erosion or cutting were observed. The upper portion of Buckskin <br />Ditch has been graded.