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(Page 2) <br /> <br />MINE ID # OR PROSPECTING ID # N-Sro 233 <br />INSPECTION DATE_~14~RQ INSPECTOR'S INITIALS SGT <br />OBSERVATIONS <br />This inspection was conducted in response to a request by the operator, Costilla County, for <br />release of reclamation responsibility for the pit. The site was inactive at the time of the <br />inspection in that no actual reclamation efforts were underway. The operator was represented <br />by Mathew Valdez of the Costilla Planning and Zoning Office and Larry Gomez, District <br />Foreman. <br />The ID sign for the site was in order. The permit area boundaries are marked by fences. <br />The site is well graded. Although the approved post-mining land use for the pit is as a <br />landfill, there is little evidence of trash remaining on site. <br />The 5 ground water monitoring wells on site have been plugged and marked with metal fence <br />posts. <br />According to the District Foreman, the site was seeded with the approved seed mix earlier in <br />the year. There is, however, little evidence of the desired grasses in the vegetative cover. <br />That cover consists mainly of annual weeds. It will apparently require some additional time <br />for significant development of the desired vegetation to manifest itself. <br />There has been no apparent effort to reclaim the roads that crisscross Che site, although <br />reclamation of the interior roads is not excluded in the approved reclamation plan. <br />Reclamation of the roads, specifically re-vegetation, will be difficult unless traffic on the <br />roads is significantly reduced. <br />Examination of the approved reclamation plan for the site indicates that minimum reclamation <br />standards must be met by the vegetative cover. <br />It is the Division's opinion that the vegetative cover developed on the site does not meet <br />minimum reclamation performance standards. As a result the Division cannot approve the <br />release request. This is a compliance oroblem that will be included on Page 3 of this report. <br />Cc: Larry Gomez District Foreman <br />Box 126 <br />Ft. Garland, CO 61133 <br />I & E Contact Address <br />~ CE <br />NAME Ms. Elizabeth Pacheco, County Administrator ^ BL <br />OPERATOR Costilla County ^ FS <br />STREET 352 Main St. ^ HW <br />CITY/STATE/ZIP San Luis. CO 81152 ^ HMWMD (CH) <br />C:-:: i i~~l'=^ f!'iAiL MO. z 3~°( 53s c~~3 ^ sE <br />nt='(UFii~ RECEIPT REQUESTED <br />