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SECTION II -REVISIONS TO THE PERMIT The following technical and minor revisions have been processed since the permit renewal was completed in December of 1997. Technical Revision Summary None. Minor Revision Summary Minor Revision Description Decision/Date MR-08 Revise weed control plan. AP 2/5/99 MR-09 Revise location of public office for AP 8/16/99 application filing SECTION III -STATUS OF STIPULATIONS No stipulations have been added to the Blue Ribbon Mine permit since the renewal in 1997. All stipulations previously added to the permit have been complied with. Details regarding stipulation resolution can be found in a memorandum to file dated August 1, 1992. SECTION IV -PERMIT VARIANCES The Blue Ribbon Mine permit does not involve any variances regarding mountaintop removal or the achievement of approximate original contour. There were no experimental practices allowed at this site. There is also no combined surface and underground mining operations at the Blue Ribbon Mine. The Blue Ribbon Mine permit application includes an application for variance from approximate original contour restoration requirements for steep slope mining. The application detailing responses to all applicable sections of Rule 2.06,.5(2) can be found in Appendix D of the permit application. A letter demonstrating approval by the U.S. Forest Service, the surface land owner, can be found on page 17iv of the permit application. The operator committed to providing appropriate geotechnical analysis and proposed restored slope configurations which achieve a static safety factor of 1.3 pursuant to Rule 4.27.4(1). The stabilization of the slope below the mine bench was done in 1985 in accordance with the technical revision request for mine bench stabilization. The mine bench was backfilled with material obtained from the hillside directly south of the mine bench. Approximately 10,000 cubic yards of material was removed from this site. Exhibit F-2, in the permit application, shows the approximate final contours of both the mine bench and hillside borrow area. The mine bench area backfill was placed on approximately a 15-degree slope from the invert of the drainage ditch on the top of the mine bench. The hillside borrow area was not excavated to a slope greater than 25 degrees. This area was seeded and mulched in 1986.