2021-05-24_INSPECTION - M1981068 (2)

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RECEIVED MAY 2 4 2021 Grant Bros. Const. LLC Po Box 1027 110 w Homestead Dr. DIVISION OF RECLAmT% MININO AND UYM Basalt CO. 81621 970-625-9120 Pit 970-927-3201 office/home May 17 2021 Travis Marshall, Russ Means Supervisors Colorado Division of Reclamation Mining and Safety 1313 Sherman St., Room215 Denver CO. 80203 Dear Travis Marshall, Russ Means: I am writing today about the mine inspection Amy Yeldell did at our mine site April 15, 2021. It was raining that day and we stood at the scale house under the outside eaves and at the door way keeping 6 feet apart per covid protocol. I did not accompany Amy as she drove around the mine to look at the site. When she came back to the scale house she said she found two gas cans that needed to be in containment. She said that's all she needed to do and was finished with her inspection. She left the mine. The two gas cans were in fact on road non dyed diesel for my pickup and were just taken out of my truck to haul a full load of stuff at the pit. I loaded them back in my truck to have extra on road fuel when I travel in the back country or long distances. They are not used at the pit. (See picture) The drums in her pictures are empty. We buy new oil in drums from time to time and use them to put recycle oil in from our service truck evacuation tank and oil drained from the equipment. We use these drums to give drained oil to friends with oil heaters in their shops. These drums are not rubbish and serve a useful purpose. We also sell them back to the oil distributors when we have more than one or two to go back. We have stacked them up so they don't look like trash. (See pictures). I am writing this letter a few days after I called Amy Yeldell, Travis Marshall, and Russ Means by phone. I am still highly ticked off with the comments of the second paragraph under observations. I have never had an inspector state or federal put these kinds of statements derived from fantasies