INSPEC23517

• Permit No: C1982055
• IBM Index Class Name: Inspection
• Doc Name: INSPECTION REPORT
• Inspection Date: 6/19/1996
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

III. COMMENTS -COMPLIANCE
Below are comments on the inspection. The comments include discussion of observations
made during the inspection. Comments also describe any enforcement actions taken during
the inspection and the facts or evidence supporting the enforcement action.
This was a complete inspection conducted by Janet Binns of CDMG. No activities were occurring
on site as the mine has been backfilled, graded, mulched and seeded. The landowner, Mr. A.J.
luppa was present during portions of the inspection and provided access to the mine site and to
the records. The Trinidad area has been experiencing a drought, but had received approx 1.3" of
rain on 6/15/96 according to the landowner.
Records: Records were checked in the mine offce. DMG Availability of Records form
accompanies this report. The landowner has been keeping a log DMG and Energy Fuels
personnel visits to the site. This log shows that the engineer visited the site on June I5, 1996.
Coal Processing Waste Btutk (RDA) and Quarterly Pond Inspection both conducted on March 20,
1996 were performed by a different engineer than Energy Fuels has used previously. Mr. Santiago
Romero Jr. performed the first quarter pond and waste bank inspections. The bond document ltas
not been updated since the three bond release approvals in 1995 and 1996. /f additional riders
been issued for the bond, these need to be filed with the public records.
Signs and Markers: Mine I.D. sign is posted at the entrance to the mine from the frontage road.
Appropriate information is contained on the sign. Disturbed area perimeter markers were observed
on the mine site. Mine I.D. signs have been removed at the Santa Fe loadouts as advised in the
February 13, 1996 inspection report. Loadouts !rave been released from the permit area.
Hydrologic Balance: Mine site was dry. Road side ditc{tes are in good repair with no sign of
downcutting or sediment deposition.
Topsoil SAE has a heavy stand of yellow sweetclover with an occasional wheat plant. Although a
few Agropyron sp. were found, the yellow sweetclover is dominant almost to the exclusion of other
species. Tfte silt fence at the Topsoil SAE has been repaired. A section of fence has been
removed from the NW comer, yet additional silt fence ltas been installed upslope of the removed
section. No rilling or sediment deposition was noted at t{:e Topsoil SAE.
Some rilling has occurred on the access road to t/te sediment pond. Of concern is rilling where
the road curves north. Some undercutting of the Reno mat has initiated. The operator needs to
assure that undercutting does not progress. RDA ditch 1 is in good repair with tl:e exception of
fire undercut location noted above. Starkville Gulch Diversion is in good repair with no sign of
scouring or other damage. RDA ditch 2 remains in good repair as well
The sediment pond contains water approximately 5" below primary spillway discharge point.
Primary spillway is clear and trash rack is free of debris. RDA underdrain is discharging into the
pond at a very slow rate, <I/, gpm approx. Water in the pond is extremely turbid. Goldfult are
present in the pond but are staying close to the surface.
CWD#1 remains in good repair. No problems observed with CWD#2, #3, or #5. CWD#5 has
considerable concentration of cocklebur on the embankments. Culverts are clear and functional.
Some sediment remains within the Starkville Gulclt diversion culvert but this amount should not
interfere with flow though the 8 ft. culvert.