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III. Comments/Compliance <br />This was an exploration site inspection conducted by Jim Burnell of CDMG on the <br />ThursdayJuly 31, 2003. .Accompanying the inspection Brian Watterson of RAG American. <br />The purpose of the inspection was for bond release on NOI 1985-159-09. This NOI was <br />originally awarded to Getty Oil Company in 1983 for activity during 1985. Through a series <br />of corporate mergers and agreements, Cyprus-AMAX and later RAG-American inherited this <br />NOI. The work was done nearly twenty years ago. The inspection visited as many sites as <br />was feasible. Many of the drill sites lay at the end of drill roads which have also been <br />reclaimed for twenty years now and in many cases, could nol be located at all. <br />Determination of reclamation success was made based on the existing maps indicating the <br />drill road location. On most of the sites, markers remained. On some, however, markers <br />have disappeared. (This is not uncommon as cattle and elk use them as scratching posts.) <br />Where roads to drillpads could not be located, the pads were not visited as the excellent <br />reclamation on the sites that could be located indicated that reclamation would be <br />acceptable. <br />Site 04-85-8 8 8c. The drillsites contains large sagebrush and rabbitbrush, yarrow, <br />mountain brome and wheagrass with a total cover probably >80%. There was no erosion. <br />The earthwork was fine. The site can't really be distinguished from the surrounding ground. <br />(Photo below.) <br />