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MINESITE INSPECTION NARRATIVE <br />December 15 s 16, 1992 <br />Meadows #1 mine <br />Sun Coal Co <br />10200 West 44th Ave <br />Suite 120 <br />Wheat ridge, Colo <br />Personnel Present During the Inspection: <br />Dan Ellison Subcontractor for Sun Coal Co <br />Susan Morrison Colorado Division of Minerals and Geology <br />Gary Fritz Office of Surface Mining\ Albuquerque Field Office #244 <br />Weather and Ground Conditions: Windy and cold with snow showers through <br />the day, with 12 to 30 inches of snow on the ground <br />GENERAL COMMENTS <br />1 <br />This was a complete oversight inspection. The state was notified regarding <br />my schedule and was able to send someone to meet me at the mine for a joint <br />inspection. <br />Initially we stopped in Steamboat Springs to review mine records but Mr. <br />Ellison was not going to be able to help with the record review that day so <br />the decision was made to go on out to the mine and return the following day <br />to look at the mine records. Mr. Ellison did not accompany us while we <br />inspected the mine property. There was no one there from the mine as we <br />went over the area. <br />We began the inspection on the lower area where the office\shop and tipple <br />were located, hoping that the weather would clear later on in the day <br />enough to allow us to go onto the upper slopes of the mine to look at the <br />reclaimation. The northern entrance to the mine is kept locked but the <br />State inspectors have the combination to the lock so they do not have to <br />walk from the mine entrance to complete their mine inspections. At one <br />time, the landowner did have someone staying in a house near the entrance <br />to the mine but it is no longer occupied. The landowner now has set up a <br />snowmobile rental business within the confines of the mine. He has moved <br />in a mobile trailer for an office and set it up on an area within the mine <br />permit boundary. As the inspection progressed, the operator of the <br />snowmobile business entered the mine and stopped to see what we were doing. <br />We introduced ourselves and told him why we were there. Later in the day, <br />we noticed a number of cars going through the area to enter through the <br />mine and drive to the rental office for the snowmobile business. <br />A sign is posted at the mine entrance along the State Route showing the <br />required information. As you enter the access road to the mine, there are <br />three large capacity transformers setting on a gravel pad enclosed with <br />chain link fence. These were set there for the mining operation. They <br />are not marked with visible labels showing the amount of PCB concentration <br />as required by EPA regulation. During the record review, the following <br />day, we asked Mr. Ellison if he knew if they had been tested for the <br />concentration levels. He said that he thought that they had been but would <br />check further and would place the required sign on the transformers, <br />