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New Horizon Mine, pg_3 The BB asphalt road detour may be retained to facilitate the landowners agricultural land uses, and to enable the Colorado Cooperative Company (Local Irrigation cooperative)paved access to the irrigation ditch intake box#1 for cleaning and maintenance. The permittee is obtaining landowner approval letters to retain the road. We discussed whether the County had any approval responsibilities for the former BB road detour; and we also discussed that it may be a good idea for WFC to propose a Phase III liability release for the reconstructed County road as a"stand alone"bond release document. We inspected sediment pond # 9 which reportedly has never discharged, and noted the temporary diversion associated with this pond. We inspected sediment pond# 14 which fully contains the 100yr. precipitation event. We discussed the easement r.o.w. necessary for the buried water pipeline from the irrigation intake box # 1. We discussed the disposition of the soil stockpiles which will remain along the former BB road detour if it is approved for retention. They may be graded to appropriate contours along the former BB detour road adjacent to where they are now located. We inspected sediment pond# 13 which held a small amount of water and appears to have hydrophytes establishing in and around the pond (possibly indicating the pond bottom is located in saturated alluvium associated with the adjacent stream-creek/and-or irrigation water runoff. This sediment pond# 13 was constructed in prime farmland soils (before they were identified), and soil stockpiles have been segregated to reclaim this pond. We had a brief overview of Mine#1. Mine#1 is completely reclaimed and the reclamation area has received Phase I and II bond release approval, but this reclamation continues to struggle for Phase III revegetation success. Mine# 1 appears stable. We did not walk through the reclamation area. Mr. Gubka oriented us to some of the features on approximately 320 acres of adjacent lands. Recently installed clusters of ground water monitoring wells are being monitored to establish baseline hydrologic information for possible future mine expansion. This concluded the field inspection on October 15"'. On October 16t" we reviewed required permitting, inspection, and environmental monitoring and reporting records. Ms. Talvitie has established a thorough complete inspection checklist on a July 23, 2008, complete inspection and we reviewed these recent inspection report findings including the following: the DRMS permit renewal is pending approval of TR 57 & TR 58 as discussed above.