_INSPECTION - C1980007 ‎(49)‎

• Permit No: C1980007
• IBM Index Class Name: INSPECTION
• Doc Name: Inspection Report
• Inspection Date: 7/29/2009
• Email Name: TAK
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

/I/. 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. Ryan Sweetwood of
Mountain Coal Company represented the operator. Howard Strand and Elizabeth Shaeffer of the
Office of Surface Mining were also along on the inspection for the purpose of conducting an OSM
Special Focus Topic oversight evaluation. The special focus topic was "Prevention of Off-site Impacts
- Prevention of Material Subsidence Damage to, and the Diminution of Reasonably Foreseeable Use
of, Structures and Renewable Resource Lands".
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 near the middle of E-Seam Panel 1. The ground was dry.
Availability 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 and at the Corrals staging
area. Topsoil markers and affected area boundary markers were properly displayed in all areas
inspected, including: the main surface facilities area, Sylvester Gulch, the Deer Creek Shaft site,
Monument Dam borrow area, and the Corrals staging area, . Stream buffer markers were in place in
Sylvester Gulch and next to the North Fork of the Gunnison River along the northern perimeter of the
main facilities area.
Roads
Road surfaces were in good condition in all areas inspected.
Hydrologic Balance
The following sediment control ponds contained low levels of water and were not discharging: MB-I,
MB-2R (CDPS outfall 004), MB-3 (CDPS outfall 005), SG-1 (CDPS outfall 014), and MB-4 (CDPS
outfall 008). The embankments and inslopes of these five ponds appeared in good condition. The
discharge structures of SG-1 and MB-3 were inspected and appeared to be in good shape.
No discharge was occurring at the mine water discharge site in Sylvester Gulch(CDPS outfall 017).
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