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October 19, 2011 C- 1981 - 019 / Colowyo Coal Mine JHB <br />Inspection Topic Summary <br />NOTE: Y= Inspected N =Not Inspected R= Comments Noted V= Violation Issued NA =Not Applicable <br />N - Air Resource Protection <br />N - Availability of Records <br />R - Backfill & Grading <br />R - Excess Spoil and Dev. Waste <br />N - Explosives <br />R - Fish & Wildlife <br />R - Hydrologic Balance <br />Y - Gen. Compliance With Mine Plan <br />R - Other <br />NA - Processing Waste <br />R -Roads <br />R - Reclamation Success <br />R - Revegetation <br />NA - Subsidence <br />N - Slides and Other Damage <br />N - Support Facilities On -site <br />N -Signs and Markers <br />NA - Support Facilities Not On -site <br />NA - Special Categories Of Mining <br />R - Topsoil <br />COMMENTS <br />This was a partial inspection conducted by Janet Binns of CDRMS. Kurt Blunt of Colowyo Coal Company <br />accompanied the inspection. The mine is an active surface mine with two active pits; West pit and South Taylor <br />pit. The weather was wane and dry. The mine received rain earlier in the week. CCC is completing reclamation <br />grading and topsoil placement for the 2011 Reclamation plan. The main focus of this inspection was verification <br />of replaced topsoil thickness on the 2011 reclamation parcels. <br />BACKFILL and GRADING — Rule 4.14 <br />Contemporaneous Reclamation 4.14.1; Approximate Original Contour 4.14.2; Highwall Elimination 4.14.1(2)(f); <br />Steep Slopes 4.14.2, 4.27; Handling of Acid and Toxic Materials 4.14.3; Stabilization of Rills and Gullies 4.14.6: <br />Grading of the X -pod area had been completed. A dozer was actively working on construction of the southern <br />collection ditch. The graded slopes blend in well with the native area and appear to follow the approved PMT <br />contours. Equipment was actively moving topsoil in this area. Slopes were not measured during this inspection. <br />A scraper and a dozer were laying in topsoil in the X -Pod parcel. Topsoil for the Aspen /tall shrub study plot has <br />been hauled in. Equipment was working on blending the edges of this plot area into the rest of the regraded slope. <br />The 2011 East Pit reclamation parcel has been graded to final contours as per map 29. Tie in to previously <br />reclaimed parcels and undisturbed ground blends well. Topsoil has been placed on the 2011 East Pit reclamation <br />parcel but contour ditches have not vet been cut in. <br />EXCESS SPOIL and DEVELOPMENT WASTE — Rule 4.09 Placement; Drainage Control; Surface <br />Stabilization: <br />During the inspection Tony Tennyson on Colowyo Coal Company gave the inspector copies of the fourth quarter <br />2011 fill monitoring reports for the West Pit fill and the South Taylor fill. <br />South Taylor fill area has had additional topsoil stripping of the slopes to the west of the fill drainage. Little <br />material has been placed on the South Taylor Fill recently. <br />Number of Partial Inspection this Fiscal Year: 3 <br />Number of Complete Inspections this Fiscal Year: 1 <br />Page 2 of 9 <br />