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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 />General Comments <br />This was an aerial inspection of the Seneca II-W Mine. The site was flown on the morning of 8/28/07, and Harry <br />Ranney of the Division took 25 oblique and near vertical digital image photos. The images were viewed by Dan <br />Mathews of the Division on 8/30107. There is much reclamation activity underway currently in the 016 and 017 <br />watersheds, in the South Extension of the permit area, including topsoiling with scrapers and dozers, road <br />reclamation, and permanent channel construction work. The large area of bare spoil that existed earlier in the <br />year within the Wolf Creek mine block and portions of the South Leg Wadge Pit Area, in the 016 watershed has <br />been much reduced, with only a couple small areas yet to be topsoiled. Topsoiling activity is continuing in these <br />areas, and drill seeding was in progress in the lower portion of the South Leg Wadge Pit area. <br />Topsoiling appears to have been completed in the remaining area of the 017 watershed Wadge Pit area, and <br />reclamation grading of the upper end of Road "K" appeared to be in progress with atrack-hoe. It did not appear <br />that Stock Pond T-25, at the lower end of the 017 reclamation area had been constructed. <br />Older reclaimed areas in the original portions of the permit area showed evidence of recent rill and gully repair <br />activity in various locations. Turf reinforcement mat (TRM) materials had been stacked on the ridgeline in the <br />vicinity of permanent channel PM-4D. The TRM installation in PM-4D is to be completed this field season. <br />The dragline was still in place where it has been stored for several months, at the intersection of HRD-"A" and <br />the Ridgeline Access Road. <br />In the reclaimed "A" pit area, a former scraper road extended from Stock Pond T-5 to the north, crossing <br />Channel 006-E1. Segments of the road on either side of the 006-E1 channel had not been fully eliminated prior <br />to the July inspection, but it appears that additional minor grading and topsoiling was recently completed, as <br />necessary to tie the remnant road segments into the adjacent topography, and eliminate the remnant cut slope <br />and road bed segments <br />3 <br />