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January 24, 2012 C -1981 -019 /Colowyo Coal Mine RDZ <br /> <br /> <br />Number of Partial Inspection this Fiscal Year: 5 <br />Number of Complete Inspections this Fiscal Year: 2 <br /> <br /> Page 2 of 6 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Inspection Topic Summary <br />NOTE: Y =Inspected N =Not Inspected R =Comments Noted V =Violation I ssued NA =Not Applicable <br />R - Air Resource Protection <br />N - Availability of Records <br />R - Backfill & Grading <br />N - Excess Spoil and Dev. Waste <br />N - Explosives <br />N - Fish & Wildlife <br />R - Hydrologic Balance <br />R - Gen. Compliance With Mine Plan <br />R - Other <br />NA - P rocessing Waste <br /> <br />R - Roads <br />N - Reclamation Success <br />N - Revegetation <br />NA - Subsidence <br />N - Slides and Other Damage <br />R - Support Facilities On -site <br />R - Signs and Markers <br />NA - Support Facilities Not On -site <br />NA - Special Categories Of Mining <br />R - Topsoil <br /> <br /> <br />COMMENTS <br /> <br /> <br />The weather was cold, and the ground was partially covered with snow. <br /> <br />In West Pit no coal was being hauled. In South Taylor Pit the 129 l oader was loading coal into trucks. Backfill <br />operations are described below. <br /> <br />AIR RES OURCE PROTECTION – Rule 4.17: <br />No problems were observed with fugitive dust. <br /> <br />BACKFILL and GRADING – Rule 4.14 Contemporaneous Reclamation 4.14.1; Approximate Original Contour <br />4.14.2; Highwall Elimination 4.14.1(2)(f); Steep Slopes 4.14.2, 4.27; Handling of Acid and Toxic Materials <br />4.14.3; Stabilization of Rills and Gullies 4.14.6: <br />Operations continue to move the large West Pit spoil pile (aka “Henk’s Peak”) to fill the pit. The 102 dragline was <br />casting spoil during the inspectio n. <br /> <br />In West Pit, the103 dragline was casting spoil. <br /> <br />In South Taylor Pit the 114 shovel was loading trucks with interburden. <br /> <br />At South Taylor fill, trucks were dumping loads. <br /> <br /> <br />