INSPEC26035

• Permit No: C1980007
• IBM Index Class Name: Inspection
• Doc Name: Inspection Report
• Inspection Date: 6/14/2005
• 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.
allow for sites to be developed and reclaimed at lower cost, with less disturbance, and with
more rapid stabilization than the traditional approach that entails topsoil salvage. It is
recommended that the method be proposed for limited, defined locations by a revision to
the permit, with potential for more general implementation based on documented results.
Approval of the approach would require a demonstration of the applicability of the topsoil
salvage variance provision of Rule 4,06.2(2)(a).
Digital photos were taken at a number of the reclamation sites observed, and these photos
are described below:
#1823 and #1824) Lone Pine Gulch Substation 2002 Reclamation. "Brush Crush" pipeline
corridor on steep slope in background. At the substation site, there is good establishment
of seeded perennials including wheatgrasses, mountain brome, yarrow, blue flax, and small
burner. There is also a significant component of the invasive annual cheatgrass brome in
this location. Dense growth of sprouting shrubs is apparent along the "brush crushed"
corridor in the background, and it is becoming difficult to distinguish from adjacent
undisturbed areas, from a distance.
#1825) Gambel oak root sprouting, and some serviceberry along brush crush corridor below
Lone Pine Gulch fan bench. Mature shrubs along the corridor had been dozed off to a
height of approximately 6 inches. Some of the sprouts that resulted are already 3 to 4 feet
high.
#1826) Lone Pine portals area (2002 reclamationl. Effective stand of seeded perennial
grasses and some seeded forbs. Scattered bull thistle plants (a noxious biennial) were
recently sprayed.
#1827) Lone Pine topsoil stockpile area (2002 reclamation). Good establishment of
mountain brome, along with bluegrass, yarrow, lupine, and Rocky Mountain penstemon.
Also a small patch of the noxious perennial Canada thistle, which was recently sprayed, and
a small patch of the noxious perennial yellow toadflax, which will need to be sprayed. The
Lone Pine development waste disposal area (no photo) was reclaimed in 1996. This site
exhibits good cover and diversity of seeded grasses and forbs, including mountain brome
and apparently smooth brome, western wheatgrass, American vetch, Kentucky bluegrass,
and a native aster. There is also a patch of yellow toadflax in this location, which will need
to be sprayed.
#1828) View from "A Patch of Rocks" (aka Apache Rocks).
#1829) Apache Rocks (subsidence cracks?)
#1830 & 1831) 2000 reclaimed drill site just west of Apache Rocks. This site exhibits a
good, diverse cover of seeded grasses and forbs, along with species that have volunteered
from the topsoil, or from adjacent areas, such as snowberry shrubs and dandelion, both of
which are prominent components of the stand. There were fresh elk tracks here, and
evidence of a few cattle earlier in the spring, but minimal grazing impact was evident.