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III. COMMENTS -COMPLIANCE Below are comments on the inspection. The comments include discussion of observations made during the inspection. Comments also describe any enforcement actions taken during the inspection and the facts or evidence supporting the enforcement action. Main Mine Site No problems were observed at the utility bench. The back ditch and the bench's outside berm were in place. The material storage area was orderly. The rock catchment berm above the utility bench was functional. The slide just below the utility bench appears to have stabilized. The operator stated that an engineer has looked at the slide and remedial operations will begin very soon. "rhe road to the utility bench was in good condition. There was a moderate amount of coal stockpiled on the D-seam portal bench. No problems with fugitive dust were observed. There were no problems with any of the facilities on this bench, including the fuel barn. Ditches had sufficient capacity. There were no problems with the highwall or the cut slope behind the warehouse. No problems were observed with the structures or ditches at the B-seam portal bench. There were no erosional or stability problems at the B-seam portal bench excess material stockpile area. Cross drains on top of the stockpile were in place. The vegetative cover at the main topsoil stockpile was very good. Topsoil signs were up. There was a moderate amount of stockpiled coal on the coal stockpile bench. There were no indications of fugitive dust going offsite or of coal dust being tracked onto the main highway. The ditches and culverts around the main entrance were functional. There was a little standing water in sediment pond B. The pond was not discharging. The pond embankment was stable and the spillways were functional. No problems were noted at the wash plant area. The culverts and ditches were functional. The highwall was stable. Surface disturbance markers were up around the site and the mine ID sign was up at the mine entrance. Coal Waste Disposal Site The gob pile haul road was in very good condition. The outside berm of the haul road, road ditches and the road ditch straw bales were in place. Pond D was almost dry while pond C had some water in it, but was not discharging. Pond F had a little water in it. The discharge structures of the ponds were operational. The operator was placing coal waste in the gob pile area between gob pile no. 1 and gob pile no. 2. Above this area, the operator was excavating soil to increase future gob storage area and to provide cover material for the gob. The gob pile area had positive drainage. The lower sections of the gob pile were already covered with soil material. The gob pile outslopes were stable. Field Minor Revision No. 84 Field Minor Revision No. 84 was approved so that Bowie Resources could take the topsoil-like material that was originally salvaged from the Hubbard Creek vent shaft construction site and stockpile it at the Bowie No. 2 unit train loadout topsoil stockpile. The topsoil-like material can come from the Paonia Water Pollution Control Facility or directly from the Hubbard Creek vent shaft construction site. 2