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Reduced Inspection Freguency Checklist <br />MINE: -Sunlight MINE ID: _RevokedC-1981-046 <br />COUNTY: Garfield <br />TYPE OPER. <br />Underground <br />OPERATOR: Garfield Energy Corporation (revoked) INSPECTOR: Byron G. Walker <br />(i) How the site meets each of the criteria under the definition of an abandoned site under rule 1.04(1) and <br />thereby qualifies for a reduction in inspection frequency. <br />Date Permit Revoked and Bond Forfeited: <br />The permit was revoked and the bond was forfeited on Apri122, 1987. <br />Bond Money Held by the Division; $: <br />The amount of bond forfeited was $11,800.00. All of this money was spent on reclamation, there is no <br />remaining money. <br />* * Brief History of Mine Site: <br />The Sunlight Coal Mine was developed prior to 1910 by Colorado Fuel & Iron (CF&I) in seazch of <br />metallurgical coal. There have been numerous owner-operators over the years, the last being the Gazfield Energy <br />Corporation. All mining operations have been conducted from the same portal location and have used an incline <br />driven down the dip of the "D" seam of coal for access and haulage. All mining operations have been room and <br />pillaz with haulage ways driven on strike, and the coal seam mined up the dip of the coal seam (42 degrees). <br />Garfield Energy Corporation obtained a permit from the Mined Land Reclamation Board on October 23,1982. <br />The permit azea encompassed roughly 180 acres, where 5.24 acres of surface were disturbed and 7.31 acres were <br />affected (surface disturbance plus under-mined areas). Surface mining activities of the Sunlight Mine disturbed <br />two azeas adjacent to, and located on the north and south sides of, Gazfield County Road 117 (GCR 117), and a <br />small area of disturbance further to the north. Reclaimed permitted mining-related features at the site include <br />two sealed portals (one below and one above GCR 117); aformer-facilities area bench above GCR 117, and an <br />equipment storage, sediment pond, and air-portal area below GCR 117. Un-reclaimed permitted feature at the <br />site are an upland diversion ditch above the portal areas, and a sediment pond adjacent to, and south of, GCR <br />117. Pre-permit mining-related features at the site include a closed air shaft approximately 0.2 mile north of the <br />road, remnants of coal mine waste piles (both above and below GCR 117), a sediment pond (below the road), <br />and two small settlement or collapse features (0.05 mile north of the GCR 117). The two portals were sealed, <br />facilities were removed, the facilities area bench was reclaimed, and the equipment storage area and lower <br />sediment pond was reclaimed by the Division's Abandoned Mined Lands (AML) Program. AML removed a <br />deteriorating crib wall at the facilities area adjacent to GCR 117 and accomplished remedial reclamation work at <br />a collapse behind the lower air portal. Reclaimed azeas of disturbance were seeded by AML. The closed airshaft <br />and the two settlement or collapse depression features north of the main disturbances have been noted by AML. <br />Are there any pre-law or pre permit mining related disturbances? <br /> <br />