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~. oc/s ~ Bear No. 1 Mine, C-81-038 SL-02 Bond release June 10, 2003 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Weather: dry, sunny, windy Participants: Joe Dudash, Colo DMG Desty Dyer & Danna Knox, BLM Basil Bear, operator Kenneth Pavlisick, landowner (East mine only) Randy Pair, OSM The West Mine portal bench has been backfilled and graded to AOC (except the sediment control section, which has been excluded £rom this bond release).. It has also been resoiled and planted; growth is sparse and weedy after the drought. Desty Dyer reported that BLM has no concerns about the portal sealing or about the regraded slope configuration. The initial access route immediately adjacent to East Roatcap Creek has been blocked by the landowner at its lower end. It has been reestablished through the disturbed area, but has fallen into disrepair above the disturbed area. It is no longer in use, and no longer needed, since the haul road higher up has been extended up-canyon and is used by all parties for access. BLM requested that some additional minor grading be done at the upper switchback bench on the "livestock trail" at the S end of the portal area. At the fan shaft site NNW of the W portal, the fan structure has been removed and the vertical fan shaft has been backfilled; however, the reclamation plan calls for a concrete cap over the backfill, which has not yet been constructed. There is also an adjacent water tank which has not yet been removed. After this work is done, grading will be required to attain AOC- For these reasons, this area does not meet Phase i bond release criteria. The operator is requesting bond release for the monies required £or the demolition and shaft backfill. Below the East Mine, the refuse pile has been nearly completed. Only a small section at the upper end of the top of the pile had not been covered with dirt (perhaps 20 feet by 20 feet, though we did not measure). Joe Dudash will check cover depths at a 36~ Y