_INSPECTION - C1980007 ‎(23)‎

• Permit No: C1980007
• IBM Index Class Name: INSPECTION
• Doc Name: Inspection Report
• Inspection Date: 10/3/2008
• Email Name: TAK
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

111. 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.
This was a complete inspection conducted by Tom Kaldenbach of DRMS. Henry Barbe of Mountain
Coal Company represented the operator. Photographs taken during the inspection are attached to the
end of this report. With the operator's consent, this report was issued from the Denver office of
DRMS.
The longwall was active in B-Seam Panel 25. Development work was in progress for panel E-1.
Availabilitv of Records
All required records were on file in the mine office (see attached list).
Signs and Markers
Mine i.d. signs were properly displayed at the two entrances on Highway 133. Topsoil markers were
properly displayed on topsoil stockpiles seen during the inspection(as listed in the discussion of
Topsoil, below). Stream buffer markers were in place in Sylvester Gulch. The affected area boundary
was properly marked by signs around the perimeter of the disturbed area in the main surface facilities
area, the Lone Pine Gulch area, the Deer Creek Shaft site, and the Corrals laydown/staging area.
Roads
Road surfaces, embankments, and road ditches and culverts were in good repair in the main surface
facilities area and in Sylvester Gulch.
Hydrologic Balance
The following sediment control ponds contained water, but were not discharging: MB-2R(outfall
004), MB-3 (outfall 005), SG-1 (outfall 014), and MB-4 (outfall 008). MB-1 was discharging less than
100 gpm of clear water. The discharge structures, embankments, and inslopes of these five ponds
appeared in good condition.
Mine water was not being discharged in Sylvester Gulch from outfall 017.
Unlined ditches next to Sylvester Gulch Road and around the shaft sites in the Gulch were in good
repair. The operator's representative explained that maintenance work has recently begun on ditches
and culverts on the site as a result the preventative maintenance survey completed earlier this year.
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