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III. COMMENTS -COMPLIANCE <br />Below are comments on the inspection. The comments include discussion of observations made <br />during the inspection. Comments also describe any enforcement actions taken during the inspection <br />and the facts or evidence supporting the enforcement action. <br />This was an aerial inspection flown on May 4, 2005. No compliance problems were noted during the <br />aerial overflight. The digital images were examined on May 9, 2005. There was no snow cover at any <br />of the mine site locations. <br />Main Mine Site <br />The main haul road and the access road to the utilities bench were dry and in good condition. The <br />contractor was putting the fmishing touches on the overhead conveyor that leads from the B-seam <br />portal bench up to the D-seam portal bench. The temporary coal loading system on the <br />B-seam portal bench has been disassembled. No problems were noted with any of the facilities. <br />Bench outslopes had good vegetative cover. The rock catchment berm behind the utilities bench was <br />functional with no rockfalls evident behind the berm. There were no problems noted at the B-seam <br />portal bench excess material storage stockpile. The operator had backfilled the small slump in the cut <br />face behind the wash plant. Erosion control matting had been placed on most of this cut slope and on <br />the cut slope just east of the wash plant coal waste loading bin. There were no problems along the <br />conveyor line to the unit train loadout and at the loadout. A train was standing by but it could not be <br />determined if the coal cars had been loaded or were empty. <br />Very little coal was stockpiled on the D-seam portal bench and on the coal stockpile bench at the mine <br />site entrance. There was a little coal dust on old state highway 133 azound the entrance to the mine site, <br />but it did not appear to be a problem. There was standing water in Pond B but it appeazed that it was <br />just above the primary discharge tube. Pond K was wet but no standing water was observed. <br />Coal Waste Piles <br />The gob pile haul road appeazed to be wet in places but was passable. There was no standing water on <br />top of coal waste pile no. 1. The top was graded and appeared to be dry in places. The upland diversion <br />ditch appeared to have sufficient capacity. There was a fair amount of water in Pond C and in Pond D. <br />No problems were noted at the material storage azea. <br />At coal waste pile no. 2, the operator is laying back the outslope of the second bench as required in the <br />geotechnical report supplied through Notice of Violation No. CV-2005-002. The 2.SH:1 V outslope <br />needs to be lowered to SH:1 V. The west half of the outslope has been done and work is progressing on <br />the east half. The top of the pile has been graded and no standing water was evident. The two rock <br />underdrains were exposed in the back of the pile and the upland diversion ditch appeazed to have <br />enough capacity. There was a small amount of water in Pond F. <br />c:lword/bowie2/insp0505 <br />