2011-10-11_INSPECTION - C1981013

• Permit No: C1981013
• IBM Index Class Name: INSPECTION
• Doc Date: 10/11/2011
• Doc Name: OSM Inspection Report
• From: OSM
• To: DRMS
• Inspection Date: 6/7/2011
• Email Name: DIH
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

Permittee/
Person
NEW ELK COAL COMPANY, LLC
U. S. DEPT. OF THE INTERIOR
OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING
Mine Site Evaluation
Permit
Number
013 -81
Field Visit
Date
16/07/2011
State Program
Continuation Page
28. Performance Standard Categories
Codes: l= Compliance, 2= Noncompliance, 3 =Not Manned, 4 =Not Started, 5= Noncompliance Identified Elsewhere, 6= Previously Cited
A. Administrative
1. _ Mining within Valid Permit
2. Mining within Bonded Area
3. Terms & Conditions of Permit
4. Liability Insurance
5. Ownership and Control
6. _ Temporary Cessation
7. AML Rec. Fees -- Non - Respondent
8. AML Rec. Fees -- Failure to Pay
B. Hydrologic Balance
1. 1 Drainage Control
2. Inspections & Certifications
3. 1 Siltation Structures
4. 1 Discharge Structures
5. 1 Diversions
6. Effluent Limits
7. Ground Water Monitoring
8. Surface Water Monitoring
9. Drainage -- Acid -Toxic Materials
10. Impoundments
11. Stream Buffer Zones
C. Topsoil & Subsoil
1. Removal
2. Substitute Materials
3._ Storage and Protection
4. 1 Redistribution
D. Backfilling & Grading
1. 1 Exposed Openings
2._ Contemporaneous Reclamation
3._ Approximate Original Contour
4._ Highwall Elimination
5._ Steep Slopes (includes downslope)
6._ Handling of Acid & Toxic Materials
7. 1 Stabilization (rills and gullies)
E. Excess Spoil Disposal
1.3 Placement
2. 3 Drainage Control
3. 3 Surface Stabilization
4. 3 Inspections & Certifications
F. Coal Mine Waste
(Refuse Piles/Impoundments)
1. 3 Drainage Control
2. 3 Surface Stabilization
3.3 Placement
4. 3 Inspections and Certifications
5. 3 Impounding Structures
G. Use Of Explosives
1. 3 Blaster Certification
2. 3 Distance Prohibitions
3. 3 Blast Survey /Schedule
4. 3 Warnings & Records
5. 3 Control of Adverse Effects
General
Category
Performance
1)
H. Subsidence Control Plan
1. Roads
1. Road Construction
2. Certification
3. Drainage
4. Surfacing and Maintenance
5. Reclamation
J. Signs & Markers
1. 1 Signs
2. 1 Markers
K. _Distance Prohibitions
L. Revegetation
1. 1 Vegetative Cover
2. Timing
M. _Postmining Land Use
N. Other
2).
3)
Performance Standard Categories
30 CFR Counterparts
A. Administrative ................................................ ...............................
1. Valid Pemiit 773.11
2. Mining - zithin Bonded _area
3. Terms &. Conditions of Permit
4. Liability Inaarance
. 5. Ocnership and Control
6_ Temporary Cessation
7. AML Rec.. Fees -Non- Respondent
S. !.LL Rec. Fees - Failure to Pay
B. Hydrologic Balance
1. Drainage Control
2_ ections & Certifications
.3. Siltation Structures:
4. Discharge Structures
.. Diversions
6. Effiuerit Limits
7. Ground grater Monitoring
S. Surface Water Monitoring
9. Drainage-Acid - Toxic Materials
10. Impoundments
11. Stream Buffer Zones
C. Topsoil & Subsoil
1. Removal
2. Sub/date Materials..
3. Storage and Protection
4. Redistribution
p.BacItfillin & Grading
1. Exposed Openings
2. Conte nporane ors Reclamation
3. Approximate Original Contour
4. Hi h ',all Elimination
5. Steep Slopes (includes dornslope)
6. Handling of Acid & Toxic Materials
7. Stabilization (rills and gullies)
773.11
773.17
500.60
77S..13
542.11(e) & 816'5 17.131
S70..15(b)
570.15(a)
(816117.31-57)
15
49(a)(10)
16
17
43
12
41(c)
41(e)
41()
19
(81017.22)
2 :a )
22(c)
22(c)
22(d)
516:/817.95 -107)
516 13.14, 15 &21
100
102(a)(1)
102(a)(2)
107
102(c)
95(b)
E. Excess Spoil Disposal (5161817.71 -74)
1. Placement. 71(e)
2. Drainage Control 71(f)
3. Surface Stabilization 7 1(g)
4. Ineections t& Certifications 71(h)
F. Coal Mine Waste (Refuse PllesImpoundments) - 5161817.81 -84)
1. Drainage Control c3(a)
2 Surface Stabilization 53(b)
3. Placernent 83(c)
4. In pectionsand Certifications 53(d)
5. Impounding Structures 54
G. Use of Explosives (816117.61 -68)
1. Saner Certification 61'c)
2. Distance Prohibitions 61(d)
3. Bla /Surve,'Shedule 6264
4. Warnings & Records 66 &65
5. Control of Adverse Effects 67
H. »Subsidence Control Plan (817.121-122)
I. Roads (816 ?317.150 -151)
1. Road Construction 1''0(c)
2. Certification 1s1(a)
3. Drainage 150(b)- 151(d)
4. Surfacing and Maintenance 150(e)- 151(d)
5. Reclamation 150(f
J. Signs & Markers 8161817.11)
1. Signs 11(a),(b). (c)
Markers 11(a),(b),(d),(e),&( f)
K. Distance Prohibitions (761.11)
L. Revegetation (816/817.111 -116)
1. Vegetative Cover 111 & 116
2. Iiming 112
M. Postmining Land Use (816817.133)
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