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The location known as 96-27-1, approved for drilling by MR-273, was visited. <br />This is an old reclaimed exploration drillpad with an existing access road. If MCC <br />drill that location, it will be easily accessed and its flat aspect should provide no <br />problems in either water control or reclamation. <br />o~ <br />The location of drillsite 14- as visited, as was the SOM-124 location. These <br />locations are right at the side of the existing road and hence require no road <br />building. The pads were clear and ready for drilling. At the site of drillhole <br />"BBB" topsoil h ~Iready been segregated and piled. The location proposed for <br />drillhole 14~5`~dlso visited. This site has not yet been approved the the USFS <br />as it would require several hundred feet of new road for access. <br />At the current drillsite, two 12-foot deep mudpits were full and a third was nearly <br />so. The USFS has requested that MCC fence these mudpits because the structures <br />present a danger to both wildlife and people. The mud may take as long as a year <br />to dry completely. The drillsite was in good order. Water was being controlled <br />effectively and sediment control was located where necessary. The drillhole was <br />within twenty feet of its objective and the hole scheduled for completion within a <br />day. <br />The water tank site was inspected. This site had been a staging area for water <br />transfer to the Apache Rocks site during fire suppression activities with temporary <br />facilities and equipment spread all around. The clean-up of the area was thorough <br />and the revegetation on the site was progressing very well. The small pond at the <br />edge of the field was nearly dry. Likewise, the small pump pads along the access <br />roads were all reclaimed. <br />The lower refuse pile (LRP) appeared stable. There was no sign of erosion. <br />Vegetation was dry, but cover good. Some equipment was being staged on the flat <br />top of the pile. There were no fresh piles of refuse on the refuse pile expansion <br />area (RPE). Sylvester Gulch was running at about 200 gpm and the water was <br />clear. <br />