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` ' (Page 2) <br />MINE ID # OR PROSPECTING ID # M-97-089 <br />INSPECTION DATE 11/21!97 INSPECTOR'S INITIALS WHE <br />OBSERVATIONS <br />This inspection was conducted in response to written complaints submitted by the following parties <br />regarding possible illegal mining and/or exploration activities within the proposed permit area for <br />the Stone Gravel Pit application: <br />Susie Campbell Bell, dated 11/11/97, received by DMG on 11/13/97, claiming commencement <br />of exploration and/or mining activities prior to permit issuance. Ms. Bell indicated, in her <br />11/11/97 letter, that on 11/7/97 she observed a front end loader and a bulldozer operating at <br />or near the proposed permit area; <br />Frederick W. Bell & Susan Campbell Bell, dated 11/12/97, received by DMG on 11/14/97, <br />claiming commencement of exploration and/or mining activities prior to permit issuance and <br />possible damage to archaeological site; <br />Bruce A. Bradley, dated 1 1 /4/97, received by DMG on 1 1 /7/97, claiming recent bulldozer <br />activity on or near the proposed permit area and damaging archaeological sites; <br />Ric & Lynda Emerson, dated 1 1 /14/97, received by DMG on 1 1 /17/97, claiming recent bulldozer <br />activity on or near the proposed permit area, resulting in destruction of archaeological ruins and <br />construction of an impoundment, prior to permit issuance; and <br />Ruth M. Stickman, dated 11/12/97, received by DMG on 11/17/97, claiming commencement <br />of exploration and/or mining activities prior to permit issuance. <br />Clyde Johnson, BLM, and Douglas Conger, Agent for the Applicant, attended the inspection. <br />During the inspection, mining related equipment was not observed on or near the proposed permit <br />area. No activities were observed. Livestock was observed near the NE boundary of the proposed <br />permit area. Proposed permit area is part of BLM grazing allotment and was not fenced from <br />surrounding grazing allotment areas. Tracks from cattle, horse and deer were observed within the <br />proposed permit area. All access roads within and surrounding the proposed permit area appeared <br />to be previously established roads and not recently constructed. <br />Evidence of recent dozer activity, within the proposed permit area, was confined to the north <br />access road. Dozer tracks followed the north road, from the entrance gate, and proceeded off the <br />north end of the permit area. Dozer had cleaned sediment from two stock ponds located beyond <br />the north and NW boundary of the proposed permit area. Excavated sediments were utilized to <br />reinforce existing pond embankments. Evidence of excavated materials being transported off-site <br />was not observed. Stock pond maintenance, conducted on BLM lands with BLM authorization, <br />where excavated materials are not hauled off-site, are defined by Rule 1.2.2(b) as activities not <br />requiring a reclamation permit. Therefore, the stock pond maintenance activity, observed beyond <br />