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III. COMMENTS -COMPLIANCE <br />Below are comments on the inspection. The comments include discussion of observations made during the <br />inspection. Comments also describe any enforcement actions taken during the inspection and the facts or evidence <br />supporting the enforcement action. <br />This was a partial inspection of the Blue Flame Mine conducted by Tom Kaldenbach of the Colorado Division of <br />Minerals and Geology. Prior to May 2004 DMG had last conducted reclamation on this site in May 1993. In <br />May 2004, DMG had a subsidence feature at the top of the portal area regraded and a diversion ditch was <br />excavated around the regraded area. <br />HYDROLOGIC BALANCE <br />There are no ponds or ditches on the site. <br />REVEGETATION <br />With the exception of the area disturbed in May 2004, revegetated areas have good cover. The May 2004 <br />disturbed area has about 500 square feet of bare ground. Elsewhere on the site there is a wide variety of wheat <br />and rye grasses. Locally, titer milkvetch and yellow sweet clover are abundant. What appears to be Wood's rose <br />and other woody shrubs are well-developed. Three patches of large (Musk?) thistle need control, each patch <br />covers roughly 200 square feet. <br />RECLAMATION SUCCESS <br />Other than the previously mentioned thistle patches, no problems were found at the site <br />