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H <br />As faz as specific items concerning the 2000 AHR, the Division has the following questions and <br />comments: <br />For the Fire Mountain Canal, both the upper station and the lower station, the monitoring <br />requirement is to perform field sampling in May, June and September, with a full suite <br />analysis to be run on the first and third monitoring event. However, the field and full suite <br />analyses were only run in May and July, with no location visit in September. Please <br />explain. <br />There aze several sampling locations where there were flows at the sites during the second <br />and/or fourth quarters and field measurements were taken, but where no full suite <br />analyses were performed. The locations are site D2-1 on 5/17/00 (0.2 gpm), site B Gulch <br />to on 4/26/00 (l.lgpm), site Steph-]o on 5/O1/00 (0.2 gpm) and site D34-15 on 5/03/00 <br />(1.9 gpm) and on 6/29/00 (0.7 gpm). Please explain. <br />The Division notes that the following pazameters were missing from the report: <br />a. Conductivity at sites D34-12 (5/29/00), D2-1 (5/17/00), D32-4 (5/17/00) and <br />D34-14 (5/29/00). <br />b. Flow rate at sites D32-4 (5/17/00, 6/29/00 and 9/28/00) and D34-14 (5/29/00, <br />6/29/00, 9/28/00 and 12/01/00). <br />c. Pond #6 was visited twice in the second quarter but not in the other quarters. <br />These few omissions appeaz to be sporadic in nature and not representative of the overall <br />hydrologic monitoring program. <br />2000 Annual Mine Inflow Report <br />BRL reported that the total mine inflow from natural sources averaged less than 10 gallons per <br />minute. BRL also reported that there were no mine water discharges in 2000. <br />BRL calculated that the consumptive water use at the Bowie No. 2 Mine for year 2000 was about <br />159 acre-feet of water, This is less than the estimated consumptive use of 234.6 acre-feet that is <br />stated on permit application page 2.04-57i. <br />BRL concludes that any increase in water from mine water inflow could be used for dust <br />suppression, thereby avoiding the need for any mine water dischazge. However, due to a permit <br />condition stemming from the recent approval of PR-06, BRL committed to the establishment of a <br />mine water discharge pipe system leading from the mine portal to D Gulch. Please submit a <br />minor revision for approval to construct this mine water dischazge pipeline system. <br />