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Marr 6/92 page 2 MLRD issued an order to Kerr as a result of this inspection requiring them to permit two road segments that had previously not been permitted. The road from the county highway to the loadout has a paved surtace and is maintained by Kerr well enough that I did not see any pertormance standards problems. This land is owned by Louisiana Pacific and Kerr has an easement from them to use it. Since this is a private road and Kerr is the sole user, it must be permitted. The other piece of road is that segment from county road 12 to the existing gate at the mine site. This used to be a county road but was dropped from the county records when Kerr started mining the site. Kerr and Jackson Co., have an agreement that allowed Kerr to build a by-pass road, and reclaim the old road. As such, this .5 mile section of road is used solely by Kerr, is no longer a public road, and must be permitted. Mr. Kent Crowder, the Jackson County Administrator, was contacted about the history of the roads in the mine area. The site is in fairly good condition, but the greatest concern I had when I first saw the site was contemporaneous reclamation. There are two large pits open; one at the south end and one at the north end of the disturbed areas. The spoil pile was built with scrappers and contains about 5.5 million cubic yards. Kerr appears to be in compliance with the approved permit requirements. Technical Revision 8 requires Kerr to backfill 300,000 cy annually in the southern pit. The 1990 annual report shows that Kerr backfilled 467,000 cy and the 1991 report shows 440,100 cy were backfilled into the south pit. MLRD recently recalculated the volumetrics of the open pits and the spoil pile. This information was not available at the mine, but the inspector said that the calculations show adequate spoil available for reclamation. The last blasting at the mine was done 7/15/91. There are only eight blasting records from 1991. The blasting schedule was published 3/27/92, with the blasting times every other hour starting at nine thirty in the morning. The ponds were certified 5!7/81, and the haul road was certified 5/8/87. Some conditions existed that are not currently a violation, but could develop into violations if left unaddressed. The CMP west of pond B is starting to pipe and erode at the outlet. The embankments of most of the ponds are not adequately vegetated. The seeding efforts have not been very successful because of the material that the embankments are made from. Well 79-1 also needs to be backfilled. A 3" PVC pipe comes out of the 12" borehole and the hole is still open. Water is apparent about 25' down the hole.