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September 14, 2011 C -1994 -082 /Yoast Mine SLB <br /> <br /> <br />Number of Partial Inspection this Fiscal Year: 4 <br />Number of Complete Inspections this Fiscal Year: 1 <br /> <br /> Page 2 of 6 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Inspection Topic Summary <br />NOTE: Y =Inspected N =Not Inspect ed R =Comments Noted V =Violation Issued NA =Not Applicable <br />NA - Air Resource Protection <br />N - Availability of Records <br />R - Backfill & Grading <br />NA - Excess Spoil and Dev. Waste <br />NA - Explosives <br />R - Fish & Wildlife <br />R - Hydrologic Balance <br />Y - Gen. Complian ce With Mine Plan <br />N - Other <br />NA - Processing Waste <br /> <br />R - Roads <br />N - Reclamation Success <br />N - Revegetation <br />NA - Subsidence <br />R - Slides and Other Damage <br />NA - Support Facilities On -site <br />N - Signs and Markers <br />NA - Support Facilities Not On -site <br />NA - Spec ial Categories Of Mining <br />N - Topsoil <br /> <br /> <br />COMMENTS <br /> <br />This was a partial inspection of the Yoast Mine conducted by Susan Burgmaier of DRMS. No representative of <br />Seneca Coal Company was on site during the inspection. Weather the first afternoon was cloudy bu t dry. The <br />second day of the inspection was cut short and limited to the Sage Creek ponds due to heavy rain. <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); St eep 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 /> The operator had started work on reconstructing the two problematic drainages (YPM -13 and YPM -9) into <br />Pond 011A in the north pit. YPM -9 had been regraded. <br /> <br />FISH and WILDLIFE – Rule 4.18: <br /> Several deer were in the vicinity of the neck pit slide and in the north pit, and a Red -Tailed Hawk was <br />perched in an aspen tree above the haul road just south of Pond 010. <br /> <br />HYDROLOGIC BALANCE - Rule 4.05 Drainage Control 4.05.1, 4.05.2, 4.05.3; Siltation Structures 4.05.5, <br />4.05.6; Discharge Structures 4.05.7, 4.05.10; Diversions 4.05.4; Effluent Limits 4.05.2; Ground Water <br />Monitoring 4.05.13; Surface Water Monitoring 4.05.13; Drainage – Acid and Toxic Ma terials 4.05.8; <br />Impoundments 4.05.6, 4.05.9; Stream Buffer Zones 4.05.18: <br /> Ponds 010, 011A, 012, 013, and 014 all held water. Clear discharge was observed at Pond 012. All of the <br />embankments were stable and well vegetated. The springs above Pond 012, a t the foot of the slide area, were <br />discharging into Pond 012. <br /> <br />ROADS – Rule 4.03 Construction 4.03.1(3)/4.03.2(3) Drainage 4.03.1(4)/4.03.2(4) Surfacing and <br />Maintenance4.03.1(5) and (6)/4.03.2(5) and (6) Reclamation 4.03.1(7)/4.03.2(7): <br /> A motor grade r was maintaining Haul Road A. This road and all of the other roads within the permit area <br />were in excellent condition.