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RESPONSE TO INSPECTION PROBLEMS The Gallegos Corporation has taken the following corrective actions to potential violations or problems that were noted in Steve Shuey's inspection report dated November 6, 2000. A Land Swap Technical Revision application has been submitted to address the larger staging area and bench dimensions, amount of area requiring and the sequencing of reclamation, revision to permit area to accommodate the larger staging area, change of address for the Inspection and Permitting contact and removal of trees in the path of harvesting. 2. The operator has stabilized the toe of the slope for a distance of approximately 100 feet by constructing a bench that is approximately four (4) feet high by fourteen (14) feet in width. Material for the bench was obtained from existing spoil on the staging area and the bench and by pulling down material from the top of the bench highwall. After the fourteen (14) ft. wide bench was constricted, material was pulled down from the highwall to lessen the highwall slope thereby reducing the bench width to approximately ten (10) feet. This stabilizing action has created two benches, one ten (10) feet in width and a second in excess of twenty (20) feet to contain any material sloughing from the highwall. A berm has been left on the outside of the second bench to contain any material sloughing from the highwall that rolls off the first bench. Grand Junction Lincoln DeVore has been retained to study the stability of the bench highwall with slopes steeper than 2:1 and the use of benches to harvest the skree material. A copy of that geotechnical report is attached. The operator intends on completing the slope stabilization work in the spring when the slope can be modified per the geotechnical study and the approved Land Swap Technical Revision. A silt fence is being installed on the downhill side of the gate to the staging area. A Swale has been constructed along the base of the driveway to direct runoff from the staging area into the silt fence. The operator intends on evaluating the need for a silt fence on the west end of the bench in the spring during runoff since the soil cover on that end of the bench is too shallow to construct a ditch. This shallow soil depth may not stop the runoff from infiltrating into the rocks on the bench. If this infiltration of surface runoff into the rocks occurs on the bench, then no silt fence would be needed. However, if the runoff does not infiltrate into the rocks quickly, then a silt fence will be installed near the end of the bench prior to discharge from the site. The attached photos document the field work completed to address the above drainage and highwall stabilization concerns.