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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 />Some debris had washed down the channel above the drop inlet Culvert "A", at the NE corner of the portal area. <br />Some limbs and rock were caught up in the steel beams over the drop inlet, and this debris needs to be <br />cleaned off. <br />The diversion ditch that runs behind the topsoil and construction material stockpiles had flowed recently, and in <br />one location a compacted mass of tumbleweed, mud, and other debris had lodged in the channel and caused <br />flow to run outside of the channel for a short distance. The point of blockage is immediately to the south of the <br />east end of the construction dirt stockpile. The ditch blockage needs to be cleaned out to restore original <br />ditch capacity. <br />Topsoil <br />The cheatgrass infestation on the topsoil stockpile was sprayed with Round-up herbicide last fall. <br />Treatment appeared to have been effective, there has been no cheatgrass germination this spring. <br />Seeding with the stabilization seedmix will be necessary in the fall. Track-hoe roughening or other <br />seedbed preparation treatment will be necessary to ensure proper seed/soil contact, given the large <br />amount of dead cheatgrass residue present on the soil surface. <br />Support Facilities <br />The sediment drying area near the McClane Mine sediment pond held only a small quantity of recent ditch <br />cleanings. The small permanent coal waste disposal site in the Munger Canyon permit area has been reclaimed <br />and is no longer be available for disposal of coal fines, waste rock and coaly sediment from McClane operatons. <br />A recently approved minor revision commits to submittal of a plan for a coal waste disposal area within <br />the McClane Canyon permit area prior to the end of 2007. Until the new permanent disposal site is <br />approved, coal waste materials will need to be stored in the sediment drying area and in designated temporary <br />storage areas in the coal stockpile vicinity. <br />4 <br />