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III. COMMENTS -COMPLIANCE Colowyo C-1981-019 23 July 2008 Pg 1 /6 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. This was a partial inspection of the Colowyo Mine conducted by Jim Stark of CDRMS. The inspection was conducted on 23 and 24 July 2008. Jennifer Sekulski and Ryan Pawlowski of CCC accompanied me on both days of the inspection. The mine was actively mining coal and hauling coal to the loadout at the time of the inspection. The weather very hot and sunny and the ground was dry on both days of the inspection. 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 access point (by the Sturgeon house) along Colorado Highway 13, which is the access point to the Section 28 Pond. Roads: - The mine access road and haul road to the Gossard Loadout is a paved road. The road 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 roads. There was some dust on the roads but the operator was actively watering the roads. - 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 and west of the box cut area for South Taylor and east of the existing Section 16 Pit. These roads are for continued topsoil removal operations in advance of the mining in the South Taylor area. - The light-use road to the Section 16 Pond and reclamation (a spur off of the Bower haul road to the topsoil stockpile) was well maintained and appeared to be stable at the time of the inspection. - The light-use roads in the East Pit reclamation area were all dry. There was some minor rutting and rilling but overall these roads appeared to be stable and were in good condition. - The road in Taylor draw (to the West Pit, East Taylor and West Taylor Ponds) was recently bladed up to the East Taylor Pond. The remaining road to the West Taylor Pond was not in need of any work at this time. The road appeared to be stable and was in overall good condition. No erosional problems were noted on the road. - Anson has constructed a new road to their topsoil stripping area west of the West Taylor Fill area. The road appeared to be stable and was in good condition at the time of the inspection.