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_5 May 26, 2004 GEC Strip Mine Bond forfeiture site administered by the Colorado Division of Minerals and Geology (DMG) Revoked Permit No. C-81-037 EY 04 Special Focus Evaluation May 25, 2004, field evaluation on site Participants: Jim Stark, DMG Kent Gorham, DMG Henry Austin, Office of Surface Mining (OSM) The participants evaluated the GEC bond forfeiture site for off site impacts as outlined in the DMG / OSM EY 2004 Performance Agreement. This same off site impacts analysis of Colorado DMG's 13-14 bond forfeiture /permit revocation sites was conducted by the joint DMG / OSM Oversight Team during Evaluation Year 2000 (EY 2000). Weather conditions were overcast and windy, ground conditions were very dry on all areas inspected. Prior to the inspection we reviewed documents including the following: EY 1999 Colorado $ond Forfeiture Sites, a DMG listing of all bond forfeiture sites, their respective histories, and current disposition; the OSM December 2000 Annual Evaluation Summary Report, that documents the findings of the EY 2000 special focus evaluations of these same bond forfeiture sites; and the EY 2004 Performance Agreement write up describing the off site impact analysis /evaluation to be conducted over the next two evaluation years (to end Tune 30, 2005) on Colorado's 14 bond forfeiture / or permit revocation sites (13 bond forfeitures & 1 permit revocation w/o bond forfeiture-a bank completed the reclamation at that permit revocation site). The EY 2000 evaluation findings for this topic listed minor off site impacts, primarily from sediment leaving the permit area in ali cases, from 3 of the 14 bond forfeiture sites in Colorado. The GEC site was one of those three sites in EYO 00 found to be contributing unknown amounts of sediments off the former permit area boundaries, and into the immediately adjacent hydrologic system (ephemeral and intermittent drainages adjacent to the GEC disturbed /partially reclaimed aeeas). There are no perennial streams receiving direct flow from the disturbed areas at GEC, and the closest perennial stream is approximately 11 miles from the disturbed area. This EY 2004 evaluation also finds the same, that minor amounts of sediment are leavingthe disturbed /reclaimed areas (former permit areas) and creating a minor off site impact to (OSM-REG-8 /Table 4: 1 minor hydroloQV impact, to a land resource) the ephemeral and intermittent drain~es channels noted above.