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INSPECTION REPORT 4 emergency spillway until the primary spillway was open. Johnson Draw pond #7 was not discharging through the open channel. A spring between Ponds #7 and 8 was flowing about 4 to 5 gallons a minute. Pond #9 was discharging water through the spillway. One of their 32 yard draglines was working at the top end of Ashmore on the east side of the pit. The sediment ponds in East, West and Middle Pyeatt Draw were checked for stability and discharge. All were snow covered with little if any standing water. There was no discharge from any of the ponds. There was some question about topsoil removal and storage on the Middle "A" haulroad near the "A" pit substation. Operations people widened the haul road in that area on the 10th of January to better accomodate pit traffic, in doing so, they windrowed topsoil back from the new disturbance into an area behind the road berm. The comment was made that the soil should have been picked up and moved~to a permitted permanent storage area. Reg and permit review did not require placement in permanent storage. Changes in the 30 CFR standards now allow the operator to place the soil in an area with no requirement or time limit for moving it to permanent storage on surface mines but there are however, there are still some requirements for doing so in underground regs. State regulations have been combined to include both surface and underground standards but this being a surface mine the interpretation was made that the requirement to place in permanent storage is at the discretion of the operator. In addition to the question about storage and timing therof, there was some discussion as to whether the operator is required to mulch the topsoil when it is redistributed and planted with permanent vegetation. Review of the mine plan and State Regulations indicated that the opertor is not required to mulch but instead has opetions as to how it is treated to reduce the potential of erosion. We did not find comments in the mine plan as to how that is to be done on this mine and must assume that State approval requires no more. RECORDS REVIEW Their mining permit, C-81-010, expires, December 31, 1992. Their NPDES permit ,CO-0032115, for discharge points 001-014 expires, July 31, 1996. Their certificate of public liability insurance isued by the Federal Insurance Co. is effective until July 20, 1992. The description of operations on the certificate lists Trapper Mining Permit C-81-010 as being one of the operations having coverge. It was noted that the certificate did not list blasting oeprations as being covered.