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' • (Page 2) • ,MINE ID f OR PROSPECTING ID / I N-95-095 INSPECTION DATE 11/15/96 INSPECTOR'S INITIALS TAS OBSERVATIONS 1. The Simla Highway Pit ie permitted fQr a total disturbance of 6 acres. The poet-mining land use ie rangeland. The pit ie currently active. 2. An entrance sign was posted and the permit boundary was adequately marked. All disturbance occurred within the permit boundary. 3. Approximately SOi of the mineable deposit has been removed. Pit elopes are currently at a 3:1 configuration. There ie a substantial amount of rill erosion on these elopes; however, all sediment lose remains on site, in thb pit bottom. The exposed elopes consist of a very erodable sand/fine gravel material. Thy Division ie not concerned with the existing soil erosion at the pit. However, if the r~lle develop into gullies then the elopes will be considered to be unstable and the operator will need to provide a plan to stabilize the elopes. 4. All available topsoil has been salvaged and temporarily stored around the periphery of the active pit. There ie also adequately stabilized with a vegetative cover. 5. The vegetative cover in the surrounding area contained primarily blue grama grass and little blueetem. Prairie eandreed, eaod dropeeed, and needle 8 thread grass were also present. The seed mix to be used duringfinal reclamation should include as many of these species ae possible. 6. The reclamation plan specifies that final elopes will be graded to a configuration of no greater than 4:1. The Division agrees wLth this commitment and recommends a elope of 5:1 or greater due to the highly erosive natureiof the soil and overburden materials. I & E Contact Addreee NAME Mervin Caeev OPERATOR E1 Paeo Countv, DOT STREET 3460 Markaheffel Rd. CITY/STATE/ZIP Colorado Sorinoe, CO 80922 cc: Jim Stevens, DMG ^ CE ^ BL ^ FS ^ HW ^ HMWMD (CH) ^ SE ^ WQCD (CH) ^ OTHER