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III. COMMENTS • COMPLIANCE <br />Below are comments on the inspection. The comments include discussion of observations made <br />during the inspection. Comments also describe any enforcement actions taken during the inspection <br />and the facts or evidence supporting the enforcement action. <br />Sediment Ponds 8 and 9 were both dry; perimeter collection ditches andberms were properly maintained. <br />Unit Train Loadout Area <br />Pond 1-2 and the sewage lagoon cells were dry. The Loadout remains inactive, although resumption of <br />active use for the UTL and associated haul road, truck scales, and power facilities has been approved. <br />Lodestaz Energy, Inc. would use the Loadout to ship coat from their McClane Canyon Mine. Snowcap Coal <br />Company would continue as the designatedpermittee and operator. Routine "spring maintenance" <br />grading of road ditches and sediment collection ditches in the Loadout vicinity is warranted. The pile <br />of scrap metal from North Portal facility area demolition is still on site, southwest of Pond 1-2. Tonya <br />Hammond indicated it would be shipped out by rail, upon installation of a necessary rail switch. <br />Overland Conveyor Corridor <br />Facilities demolition has been completed, with the exception of the suspension bridge segment over the <br />river and the adjacent Transfer-2. These facilities are scheduled far demolition during 2003. Final grading <br />and seeding of the conveyor comdor is also scheduled for 2003. <br />North Decline Area <br />Inspection on 3/28/02 began at the dewatering system drill pad, east of the North Decline reclaimed azea. <br />The drilling contractor was on site, and had just recently completed final installation of thedewatering pipe <br />and backfilling of the associated trenching. The dewatering pipe extends from the pipe previously installed <br />in the angled drill hole to the culvert that passes beneath I-70 to the newOutfal1016 adjacent to the <br />Colorado River. Final site grading, topsoiling, seedbed prep, seeding, and installation of final sediment <br />control berms and silt fencing was to be completed shortly. Tonya Hammond indicated that the valve on <br />Dischazge 002 (the siphon outfall) would be closed within the next day or two, to allow for water levels to <br />rise within the mine to the level at which permanent discharge will initiate from the newdewatering pipe. <br />Within the North Decline reclaimed azea, surface soil had been stripped from a small bare azea within the, <br />southeast portion of the site, and replaced with a small quantity of soil from thedewatering site. The poor <br />quality soil was placed at the base of [he dewatering site excavation, and covered with overburden <br />previously excavated. The topsoiled bare patch had been ripped and will be seeded at the same time the <br />dewatering drill pad site is seeded. <br />Pond 7 and the two sediment traps at the North Decline were dry. The Fall, 2000 permanent seeding along <br />the Ute Water Line corridor through the site appears to have been successful, with promising initial <br />establishment of perennial grasses and shrubs. <br />Cameo Borrow Area 2 <br />Pond 11 was dry, with no appreciable sediment accumulation. Soil excavation associated with the current <br />CRDA-1 reclamation project had been largely completed. Reclamation of the excavated borrow area is to <br />include ripping, topsoiling, random rock distribution (to the extent rock is available) and seeding, and is to <br />be largely completed by the end of April in conjunction with the current CRDA reclamation project. Some <br />portion of the Borrow excavation final reclamation may be delayed until completion of the CRDA-2 road <br />reclamation in the 4"' quarter, 2002. <br />