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Auguust 19. 1996 Inspection During the August 19, 1996 Yoast Mine inspection which you and I conducted, we visited the junction of Road 27 and the Yoast haul road with Seneca personnel to discuss the technical revision for the dragline move, which was being reviewed at the time. During that inspection, 1. Seneca staff discussed several options for modifying the plans which had already been submitted in a proposed revision. I understood them to say that the dragline could be walked off Road 27 and onto the adjacent ground with little or no modification of the road shoulder. They also indicated they would probably not need to remove topsoil from the path of the dragline after it crossed Road 27 because the dragline would cause minimal disturbance. 2. Seneca staff discussed options for routing traffic around the dragline during the move. I agreed with them that decisions about that aspect of the project would be up to Routt County, not DMG. I said that because this part of the project involved traffic routing, which I did not think was directly related to coal mining activity. The option of widening Road 27 rather than building a bypass was discussed but, nothing was said about the source of material for widening Road 27. 3. I do not recall hearing any mention of road work on Road 27a during our site visit. 4. All of the discussion about timing of permit work and earth work on this day involved, a. DMG working closely with Seneca in order to facilitate the review of the technical revision application as quickly as possible and, b. commencement of earth work a few days in advance of the dragline move, which Seneca staff anticipated would happen during the third week of September. I did observe the spray painting on Road 27a while we drove to the Seneca Mine office. I did not notice any markings on the rock outcrop adjacent to the road. During a subsequent phone conversation (August 30, 1996), Mike Altavilla told me that Seneca staff had specifically pointed those markings out to us during the inspection. I told Mr. Altavilla that I had heard no mention of those markings. I told him that I had considered asking what the road markings were, but never asked the question. After noticing the markings, I certainly would have remembered and been very interested in any conversation aobut widening the road.