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<br />pre-existing disturbances near the edge ofthe permit, to show a bit of them offsite (even though <br />they presumably will not be affected). <br />Sunday Mine <br />The new map includes most of the surface structures observed last year during my inspection. <br />This map shows a defined boundary line around most of the disturbance at or near the portal. <br />However, this boundary is different than others shown on earlier maps. Please indicate how and <br />why these corner points were selected or located. My calculations show that this polygon slightly <br />exceeds 20 acres. Your permit acreage is 20 acres, but is supposed to include the areas of the <br />numerous vent sites and their associated access roads. These features are not shown. <br />Please provide a reference to a locatable point. Also, please show the rest of the short road to the <br />county road. <br />As mentioned above, the access roads and the uphill vent holes and radio tower are not shown. <br />There are no powerlines to these locations shown either. If these exist, please include them, as <br />well as indications of whose property the transformers are, and which vents or road sections have <br />been reclaimed. <br />There is only one portal shown, though earlier maps show two. Has one been closed and <br />reclaimed? Please show its (former) location. <br />A "new" area of activity was identified as associated with this permit during the 1997 inspection, <br />which is not shown on the new map. It is a decline used for a vent shaft, located on the GMG <br />#13 claim. There are several pre-existing mining features and new sediment structures there <br />which should be included on the map, total permit acreage, and bondable disturbance. Please <br />provide them. <br />The original permit materials stated that there was no topsoil due to this being apre-law site <br />where none was salvaged. Presumably, as operations progressed and the "footprint" of affected <br />area grew, topsoil would have been stripped and salvaged somewhere for later use in reclamation. <br />Please show that location and provide information as to its volume. <br />Please show the sediment and runoff control structures on the mining map, and removed from the <br />reclamation map if appropriate. <br />umma <br />I have tried to present as comprehensive a review as possible, so that wherever appropriate these <br />revisions may be included. The Rules and Regulations clearly state what must be included on the <br />maps. The existing file maps are inadequate (outdated, incomplete, unclear) and this is the time to <br />bring them up to the required standard. In some cases the file contains only a existing condition <br />of the site, with no map of future operations, and no reclamation map. (The Rules have not <br />become tougher; these details should have been required and provided earlier, in order to <br />adequately assess the impact from mining and cost of reclamation. The new language in the Rules <br />simply asks for these things, plainly and up front.) These revisions may appear to be an enormous <br />