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III. COMMENTS -COMPLIANCE <br />Below aze comments on the inspection. The comments include discussion of observations made during the <br />inspection. Comments also describe any enforcement actions taken during the inspection and the facts or <br />evidence supporting the enforcement action. <br />waste and, then, placing the resultant material into small piles on top of the waste pile for <br />drying. <br />The collection and diversion ditches at the gob pile site were functional. The water bar <br />and the culvert at the entrance to the gob pile were functional, although the culvert inlet <br />will need cleaning soon. <br />Facilities <br />The construction of the unit train loadout has been completed. Trains are being loaded at <br />Bowie No. 2, rather than at the Bowie No. 1 Mine train loadout. However, trucks still <br />haul special order coal to the Bowie No. 1 Mine train loadout for one unit train delivery <br />per month. One unit train had already been loaded at Bowie No.2 before the inspection <br />began but there was no loading of coal rail cars during the inspection. There were no <br />signs of fugitive dust offsite. <br />The coal stockpile located next to Old State Highw~_133 was relatively small in volume. <br />The operator had recently completed its longwall move so most of the stockpiled coal had <br />been shipped out. There were no problems with fugitive dust offsite. The section of Old <br />State Highway 133 in front of the mine site entrance was clean. However, there is one <br />section of the coal stockpile bench berm, just to the east of the reclaim tunnel exhaust fan <br />outlet, that could use some beefing up. <br />There were no problems observed with any of the facilities at the main mine site. There <br />were no fuel leaks at the portal bench fuel bam. No problems were observed at the <br />material storage azeas as well. <br />Slope Stabilitv <br />There were no signs of any slope instability at the former slide azea behind the portals <br />and at the former slide area behind the office. The very small scarp in the road cut at the <br />fmal rum before one gets to the portal bench hasn't grown in the last year or two. There <br />were no signs of slope failure with any of the cut and fill slopes and benches at the main <br />mine site or at the train loadout. <br />Hydrology <br />Because of problems with the underground sumps, the operator has begun pumping mine <br />water out of the mine. Ordinarily, the mine water would be pumped to Pond C. However, <br />2 <br />