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April 29, 2025 C-1981-028/Keenesburg Strip Mine RDZ <br /> <br /> <br />Number of Partial Inspection this Fiscal Year: 6 <br />Number of Complete Inspections this Fiscal Year: 4 <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 />Y - Air Resource Protection <br />R - Availability of Records <br />NA - Backfill & Grading <br />NA - Excess Spoil and Dev. Waste <br />NA - Explosives <br />R - Fish & Wildlife <br />R - Hydrologic Balance <br />R - Gen. Compliance With Mine Plan <br />N - Other <br />NA - Processing Waste <br /> <br />NA - Roads <br />R - Reclamation Success <br />R - Revegetation <br />NA - Subsidence <br />Y - Slides and Other Damage <br />NA - Support Facilities On-site <br />R - Signs and Markers <br />NA - Support Facilities Not On-site <br />NA - Special Categories Of Mining <br />NA - Topsoil <br /> <br /> <br />COMMENTS <br /> <br />A complete inspection was conducted by Rob Zuber of DRMS on April 29, 2025. No Coors Energy Company <br />(CEC) representative was present at the inspection. <br /> <br />The site is in Permanent Cessation. Most reclamation activities were completed in the fall of 2020. Due to poor <br />success in some areas, however, Coors Energy reclaimed some areas again (harrowing and seeding) in the spring <br />of 2022 and fall of 2023. <br /> <br />The weather was clear and moderate (50 deg F at start). The ground was dry. <br /> <br /> <br />AVAILABILITY OF RECORDS – Rule 5.02.4(1): <br />The records lacked some recent reports. In particular, the Division inspector could not locate pond inspections <br />reports after 2023, recent Division inspection reports were missing, and recent vegetation reports <br />(pests/disease/weeds) were also missing. Coors Energy Company needs to update the records in the second <br />quarter of 2025. (Email correspondence with Ben Moline indicated that he will take records to the mine site by <br />May 9, 2025.) <br /> <br />Please see the list of records below. <br /> <br /> <br />FISH and WILDLIFE – Rule 4.18: <br />Many birds were heard and seen at Sediment Pond 2. <br />