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Mr. Billy Owens Page 2 activities relative to the slide area requires that additional safety measures be utilized as necessary in order to ensure that the safety and well being of the miners involved in these assignments is asswed. The following discussions provide additional detail regarding each task and the particular safety measwes proposed to be utilized for each. A map indicating the locations where the proposed tasks will occur is included for your reference (see enclosed mao entitled: Trapper Mining Inc.. MSHA Work Plan Tasks 1 - 4, G-pit Slide Area). Task 1: Trapper Mine will be removing the thick oak brush vegetative cover in the area to the immediate south of the southern boundary of the slide zone. This task is necessary to improve visibility in the area to the south of the slide so that more effective visual monitoring and inspection can take place here as other work in the slide zone progesses. This work will be done with bulldozers knocking the vegetation down and pushing debris into piles at the mazgins of the areas to be so cleared Trapper is working with the Colorado Division of Reclamation, Ivfining and Safety to this purpose to allow a corridor of 150 feet on the west half of the slide and 250 feet on the east half of the slide to be brushed so that the development of new cracks can be observed and the monitoring of the tension cracks behind the south face can continue. This work will be done during daylight hows only using experienced dozer hands familiar with the hazazds associated with working around highwalls. This work area will be inspected twice per shift while the work is ongoing. Two paths of egess will be maintained at al] times, and positive communication will also be maintained. Equipment operators will be informed of the presence of any known cracks in the vicinity of their assigned work area and will maintain a safe distance from these features during brushing operations. If significant cracks are noticed to be developing during inspections or while work is ongoing, operators will be instructed to immediately withdraw from the area. This task will be completed before other work as described below is initiated. Task 2: Trapper Mine plans to seal up the tension cracks and smooth and seal some of the south slide face area on the west half of the slide in order to reduce moisture infiltration into the slide zone and minimize the opportunity for slide reactivation. Specifically, along the west side of the slide (the portion that trends mostly north/south between Northing 403,700 and 401,250 and between Fasting 1,435,300 and 1,436,600) the existing south slide face and corresponding tension cracks look to be at shallow depth. It is currently thought that the slide occurred on a Tonstein clay layer above the ML Seam and the area described above looks to have broken at the 20 to 30 foot cover line to this seam. Inspections of this area indicate that the cracking occurred at shallow depth; the area is well rubblized with no significant scarp faces present. The sealing work will be done during daylight hours only using experienced dozer hands familiar with the hazazds S:\MSNACOMPIK Order Mod Regoesc Hl.dac