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LJ <br />(Page 2) <br />MINE ID # OR PROSPECTING ID #: n-t-90-14A <br />INSPECTION DATE: 7/17/00 JCS <br />r~ <br />OBSERVATIONS <br />This inspection wits conducted in order to check compliance of the operation with the requirements of the <br />Act, Rules, and the conditions of the permit. The site was inactive at the time of the inspection. The <br />County was represented by Rick Spady during the inspection. <br />The ID sign was in order. The County representative was able to identify a number of markers for the <br />permit/affected area boundaries; although it appeared the most northwestern marker was missing. Granted <br />that it is difficult to maintain markers such as isolated fence posts in areas where cattle are active, the <br />boundaries of the approved permit area should be marked. This is a compliance problem that will be <br />included on Page 3 of this report. <br />The permit/affected area is irregular and follows a stream channel from which the material is removed for <br />use. There is no overburden and topsoil, in the normal sense, to remove from the extraction areas and <br />stockpile for reclamation purposes. The currently approved reclamation plan calls for the first material <br />removed from extraction areas to be formed into berms around the excavated areas and to be seeded as <br />well as planted with some willows in order to provide some interception of flood flows. Since berms <br />formed around they extraction areas early in the mining operation would appear to interfere with the manner <br />in which the County is conducting its extraction of material from those areas, the County may want to <br />reconsider and revise some aspects of the approved reclamation plan. It was not apparent to this inspector <br />that there were berms around the two active areas of extraction where material was being pushed from the <br />channel into stockpiles adjacent to the stream banks. <br />Active extraction operations are being conducted very close to the east permit/affected area boundary and <br />the County should take care not to extend the area of disturbance beyond that boundary. <br />I & E Contact Address <br />NAME: Mr. Rick Spady <br />OPERATOR: Kiowa County <br />STREET: P O Box 100 <br />CITY/STATElZIP: Eadc O 81036 <br />CERTIFIED MAIL NO..~~G 7~Y 'Z~ <br />RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED <br />