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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. Topsoil • The topsoil stockpile for the Bear Creek Fansite Facility has been laid back against the slope, and the surface is nicely roughened (Figure 4). It will be seeded and protected with wattles when the summer help comes on board. General Mine Plan Compliance Bear Creek Fansite • The series of power poles that will carry electrical lines up the valley to the Bear Creek Fansite Facility had been installed, and the line was in the process of being strung at the time of the inspection. • Timber harvesting of those trees cleared to make way for the power line and poles has begun, but there is still a long way to go. • At the Bear Creek Fansite Facility, excavation work inside the collar had progressed to nearly 20 feet below the surface and was nearly complete. Project personnel indicated that the mini-excavator, powered by a generator on the surface, had proved a useful tool. • The three utility boreholes permitted under TR-60 and modified by MR-88 were very recently completed (Figure 5). The cement and water visible on the surface was a result of water in the borings being pushed to the surface by the grouting operation. The mixture did not leave the pad area, and was nearly dry at the time of the inspection. • Concrete footers were in place at the southern end of the Fansite Facility, in preparation for erection of the substation. A portion of the substation arrived by flatbed trailer during the inspection (Figure 6). Methane Ventilation Boreholes • We drove up the light use road that heads west from Bear Creek approximately one mile upstream of the Fansite Facility, and looped northward onto Hotchkiss property before returning to the Bear Creek drainage. • GVB-LW11-02 is located immediately adjacent to the light use road (Figure 7), and the associated generator was running on pumped methane at the time of the inspection. • GVB-LW 11-03, LW 10-05 and LW9-05 were visible across the Bear Creek valley to the east. Methane pumping at LW09-05 has concluded, but the site has not been reclaimed (Figure 8); the road will be extended with approval of TR-63. • Methane pumping has concluded at GVB-LW9-01 B through LW8-02, and these sites are scheduled for reclamation during 2009 (Figure 9). • GVB-LW10-01 has been reclaimed already (Figure 10). This concludes the May 2009 inspection report for the Elk Creek Mine. Elk Creek Mine C=1981-022 20-May-2009 -2-