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(Page 2) MINE ID # OR PROSPECTING ID #: M-ono-028 INSPECTION DATE: _ 6/5/00 OBSERVATIONS INSPECTOR'SINITIALS: JCS This inspection was conducted in order to monitor compliance of the operation with the requirements of the Act, Rules and the conditions of the permit. The site was inactive at the time of the inspection. Although the designated Inspection Contact, i.e. Larry Menegatti, was left a voice mail message notifying him of the Division's intended inspection, the operator was not represented during the inspection. The ID sign for the site was posted and acceptable. Boundary markers for the four sides of the approved permit area were also identified. It is recommended that the operator review the conditions of leis approved permit application and comply with them. Although not laid out exactly as represented in the approved permit application, there were "collection' ditches located near the northwest, northeast and southeast permit area boundaries, ditches that lead to a small sediment pond adjacent to the northeast boundary of the permit area. The ditch along the northwest boundary, however, is incomplete and does not extend the length of that boundary as proposed and approved in the permit application. Unfortunately, in the area along the northwest permit area boundary without the collection ditch, what may be stripped and stockpiled overburden and/or topsoil lies immediately adjacent to the boundary and near the top of a northwest facing slope, Without the approved collection ditch between this stockpile and the slope, the material in the stockpile is clearly in a position to be eroded by storm water and to be carried unimpeded out of the permit area. There is also no containment berm along the southwest boundary of the permit area as proposed and approved in the permit application. The absence of the approved storm water control structures represents a failure to protect areas outside of the permit area from damaee and/or to minimize the uotential disturbance of the included on Page 3 of this report. Rule 3.1.9 (3) requires that topsoil stockpiles shall be stored in places and configurations to minimize erosion and where disturbance by ongoing mining operations will be minimized. Although it appears that topsoil and overburden may have been stripped from the extraction area prior to its being mined, there are no stockpiles of these materials located in the extreme northeast part of the permit area as proposed and approved in the permit application. The present location of what may be these materials along the northwest permit area boundary appears neither to agree with the conditions of the approved permit or with the requirements of Rule 3.1.9 (3). The mining operation, however, is in its early stages and these materials, if they consist of overburden and/or topsoil, can and should be moved to their approved locations in conjunction with completing the storm water control system along the northwest and southwest boundaries. Completion of the storm water control system is the corrective action required for the compliance problem mentioned previously in this report. The present disturbance related to the mining operation appears to be within the boundaries of the approved permiVaffected area. The access/haul road, although appearing to be newly cut and serving only as access to the pit, is indicated in the permit application to have been an "existing" road and is, therefore, not included in the permit area. ~ -~ ~ ~ 3 to '~8~3 ~/~, I & E Contact Address NAME: Mr. Mike Ferrero OPERATOR: Mike A. Ferrero STREET: 34259 Hwy. 12 CITY/STATE2IP: Trinidad CO 81082 _ _