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r~ ~~~ A~ • • REGION V ON-SITE INSPECTION kEPORT SUNFLOWER ENERGY CORPORATION BLUE RIBBON MINE Star Route Box 15 Paonia, Colorado 81428 DATE: June 20, 1979 TIME: 9:00 A.M. IVEATHER: Clear COUNTY & STATE: Delta County, Colorado STATE PERMIT: 76-6 COD7PANY OFFICIAL: Dave Asher STA 7'E OFFICIAL: None OSM OFFICIALS: Gary Fritz, Ron Gregg, Ginger Kaldenbach NOV NLrMBERS: None GENERAL COPMIE NTS This mine is located several miles up the U.S. Forest Service Hubbard Creek access road north of Colorado Highway 133. The access road leaves the main highway between Bowie and Somerset in the North Fork of the Gunnison River mining area. This is an underground coal mine. It is presently operating on fee coal under State Permit 76-6. There was a mining plan submitted on May 21, 1979 for approval to mine federal coal, but it has not yet been reviewed. Colorado Lease, C-033301, has been subleased by Sunflower Energy from U.S. Steel Corporation. The lease and approved assignment documents were reviewed and found to be in order. The surface area where the mine facilities are located is private land and the sue•face over the mine is Forest Service owned. COMPLIANCE WITH INTERIM REGULATIONS 717.11 General Obligations A copy of the recently submitted mining plan was reviewed at the mine site. Copies of permits for fugitive dust, local government approval and state approval were adeyuate. No NPDES permit was available at the site but a letter showing that the permit was in the process of being amended at the Colorado Water Q~ali.ty Control Division was available. No water is presently discharged so a Notice of Violation was not given. The operator was advised that a copy of the NPDES permit must be at or near the mine site when water discharge begins. Discharge of water from the mine or the disturbed area will not begin until the drainage system is completed.