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III. COMMENTS -COMPLIANCE Colowyo C-1981-019 18 March 2008 C~ Pg 1 /4 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 andl the facts or evidence supporting the enforcement action. This was a partial inspection of the Colowyo Mine conducted by Jim Stark of CDRMS. The inspection was conducted on 18 March 2008. Tony Tennyson and Ryan Pawlowski of CCC accompanied me on the inspection. The mine was actively mining coal and hauling coal to the loadout at the time of the inspection. The weather warm (raid 40's) and sunny and the ground was covered with snow. The snow has meltecl quite a bit by this point and the operator indicated that the mine has had around two weeks of nice weather that has not been overly hot. This should help with the runoff this spring. Signs and Markers: -All of the necessary signs were in place as required at the time of the inspection. Mine ID signs were in place at the main entrance and at all of the ponds along Colorado Highway 13 as required. Colowyo has a mine identification sign at the acce~~s point (by the Sturgeon house) along Colorado Highway 13, which is the access poiint to the Section 28 Pond. Roads: -The minE~ access road and haul road to the Gossard Loadout is a paved road. The road was wet and icy in spots at the time of the inspection but it was well maintained and in good condition. -The haul roads in the East and West pit areas were dry and appeared to be well maintained and stable at the time of the inspection. No erosional problems were noted on these reads. -The light-use roads around the Gossard Loadout and to the rail loop were dry and appeared to be well maintained and in good condition at the time of the inspection. -The haul roads in the Bower project area (topsoil removal) are well maintained and appear to be stable. These roads are in the Taylor Draw and along the west edge of the Section 16 Pii. There is also a new haul road that was constructed just south of the existing Secti~~n 16 Pit. This road is for continued topsoil removal operations in advance of the raining in the South Taylor area. -The light-use roads in the East Pit reclamation area were all still more or less inaccessible due to snow. -The Sturgeon road (to access the Section 28 Pond and the future Section 21 Pond)was wet ar~d muddy at the time of the inspection. The road appeared to be stable and no er~~sional problems were noted on the road. This road was somewhat improved last fall) for the construction of the Section 28 Pond. The road was hard bladed and Miss~~uri crossings were put in place. That work, along with the gravel surfacing of the road, will need to be completed this spring/summer to get the road up to light-use ro~~d standards. At that point Colowyo will need to submit an as-built drawing and certification for the road.