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' (Page 2) MINE ID # OR PROSPECTING ID # M-82-033 INSPECTION DATE 1/14/99 INSPECTOR'S INITIALS RCO This inspection was performed by the Division as part of its monitoring of 112 Construction Material permits. The operator was contacted about the inspection, and a time was arranged to meet at the site. The operator was present throughout the inspection. The pit has one entrance, located at the NE corner of the permit. The entrance is adequately marked by the required permit ID sign. The extreme north edge of the existing pit is a pre- law portion of the total pit, and is not within the permit area. It adjoins the permitted pit, but the operator stores construction equipment there and does not mine within that area. That excluded portion has its own separate ramp into the pit, which also bears a permit ID sign, but this entrance and ramp is not regarded as the permit area entrance nor part of the permitted area. The permit was converted from a 110 permit to a 112 permit during 1997. The boundaries finally became well-defined, and the operator had enough acreage in which to operate without fear of crossing outside the permit boundary. The markers which are required to delineate the new 112 permit boundaries were not inspected during this inspection. The operator must ensure that the new corners are well marked at their correct locations, by durable markers, visible in the field by mine personnel and Division inspectors. It is very clear a this time that mining disturbance is confined only to the permit area. (Note: Though the north pit wall is pre-law and out of the 112 permit boundary, the operator is free to perform whatever earthwork is desired to stabilize that slope. Any material which is generated by such "offsite" earthwork, however, cannot be exported from the property or sold. It must be used as backfill on the property.) The pit is excavated to a uniform depth, about 15 feet deep. Most mining has ceased on the south wall of the pit (though there is plenty of distance before reaching the permit boundary), and has recently been concentrated on the west wall. Loaders leave the highwall fairly steep. The reclamation plan calls for 3:1 final slopes, but the operator has not reduced the gradient of most of the walls down to 3:1. Since the reclamation plan does not require topsoil replacement or revegetation, no topsoil is stockpiled. The operator actually mixes the native topsoil with the aggregate to create some of the product sold out of the pit. This creates a somewhat confusing situation, in that there is an adjoining (or ovelapping) 111 permit whose reclamation plan requires topsoil replacement and revegetation. That special operation is finished and reclamation has begun. The 111 operator has removed all equipment and top soiled the east end of that permit, but many thousands of tons of processed aggregate and most of the topsoil stockpiles still remain onsite. The 111 pit has not been sloped or otherwise reclaimed. The operator of the 111 permit is presently required to finish that reclamation, although as soon as that area is released, this overlapping 112 operator may expand his pit and destroy those efforts. This must be sorted out soon, because of the remaining 111 gravel and since the 111 reclamation will proceed to completion in 1999 or 2000. The operator's crusher and conveyors are set up in the western portion of the existing pit, with many tons of processed material present. Those and other onsite equipment do not exhibit any spillage of £uel or fluids. There is a 200-foot setback from the county roads on the north and east to the permit boundaries, and a similar setback from the concrete irrigation ditch running diagonally NW