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PERMIT#: M-2019-025 <br /> INSPECTOR'S INITIALS: ECS <br /> INSPECTION DATE:July 23, 2019 <br /> OBSERVATIONS <br /> This was a pre-operational inspecion conducted for the proposed Amen Pit, an approximately 158 acre 112c aggregate <br /> operation located on the northwest corner of the intersection of Highway 54 and County Road 13/County Line <br /> Road/Colorado Blvd. The site is accessed by gates located on the east side of County Road 13,and the required permit <br /> applied for notice was posted at the site entrance(photo 1). <br /> The site is currently utilized as rangeland/cattle grazing and is bisected by the the Big Thompson River. Several gas/oil <br /> structures are currently located on the site,but scheduled for removal in the near future. A technical revision should be <br /> submitted to the Division with a map revision to detail updates/revisions to oil/gas features within the permit as conditions <br /> warrant. Representative photos of pre-mining site conditions and permit boundary markers have been included with this <br /> report(photos 2-5). <br /> Since the application was submitted, the permitee has decided to slightly modify the northern permit boundary. Rather <br /> than following the property boundary, the decision was made to have the northern permit boundary correspond with the <br /> south bank of the irrigation ditch on the northwest and northeast portion of the permit. Existing fences deliniate the <br /> permit boundary in the north center,west side, and east end of the permit. The south permit boundary has been marked <br /> with orange lath set back 40 feet within the existing south fenceline on the north side of Hwy 54. This minor boundry <br /> shift will necessitate some minor modifications to the provided acreage total and permit maps in the submitted <br /> application. DRMS also recommends that the permittee mark the required setbacks from oil and gas lines that will remain <br /> within the permit when excavation commences. <br /> The permittee also proposed crossing the Big Thompson River with a conveyor rather than a low water crossing, and a <br /> minor change to the sequencing of the mine plan to allow grazing on the eastern end of the permit for as long as possible. <br /> These changes will need to be appropriately detailed in the amendment application during the adequacy review process. <br /> DRMS and the permittee discussed several other issues identified in the adequacy review that will need to be addressed, <br /> such as groundwater level monitoring, and flood control structures. No other issues were identified during this inspeciton. <br /> Inspection Contact Address <br /> Ken Coulson <br /> Coulson Excavating Company,Inc. <br /> 3609 North County Road 13 <br /> Loveland,CO 80538 <br /> Page 2 of 3 <br />