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III. COMMENTS -COMPLIANCE Below are comments on the inspection. The comments include discussion of observations made during the inspection. Comments also describe any enforcement actions taken during the inspection and the facts or evidence supporting the enforcement action. The mine site has one access road, that leads from the portal bench to the utilities bench, and several light use roads for travel to water monitoring locations. No problems were noted with any of these roads. Exolosives The cap and powder houses were locked. The operator stated that no explosives were being stored at the present time. Gob Pile The operator was adding coal waste material to the gob pile. The material appeazed to be fairly dry. The lift was about two feet thick and only covered a third of the gob pile area. The sheepsfoot compactor was being repaired at the time of the inspection. The underdrain inlet was exposed. However, the operator needs to do a better job of keeping dirt and other material out of the exposed underdrain rock. The west side diversion ditch was in and had sufficient capacity. The upland diversion ditch had capacity but needed to be watched for material falling down into the ditch. The operator had recently constructed and graveled the haul road segment leading to the gob pile from the east side. Coverfill Stockpile The operator was preparing to seed and mulch the coverfill stockpile. The east side diversion ditch was in place. The straw bales and containment ditch for this SAE were also in place. There were no erosional problems observed. Facilities The operator has moved engineering into the old mine office, located at the junction of the gob pile haul road and the main haul road. A large coal stockpile is on the portal bench azea. A small amount of fugitive dust was observed from the operation of a front end loader working on the 4