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October 4, 2011 C -1981 -038 /Bowie No. 1 Mine JJD <br /> <br /> <br />Number of Partial Inspection this Fiscal Year: 2 <br />Number of Complete Inspections this Fiscal Year: 2 <br /> <br /> Page 2 of 7 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Inspection Topic Summary <br />NOTE: Y =Inspected N =Not Inspected R =Comments Note d V =Violation Issued NA =Not Applicable <br />R - Air Resource Protection <br />R - Availability of Records <br />R - Backfill & Grading <br />NA - Excess Spoil and Dev. Waste <br />NA - Explosives <br />Y - Fish & Wildlife <br />R - Hydrologic Balance <br />Y - Gen. Compliance With Mine Plan <br />N A - Other <br />R - Processing Waste <br /> <br />R - Roads <br />R - Reclamation Success <br />R - Revegetation <br />Y - Subsidence <br />R - 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 Min ing <br />R - Topsoil <br /> <br /> <br />COMMENTS <br /> <br />AIR RESOURCE PROTECTION – Rule 4.17: <br /> There were no signs of fugitive dust at any of the mine’s disturbed areas. Most of the disturbed areas have <br />at least a moderate cover of vegetation and portions of the East Mine had been recently hydroseeded. No <br />indications of dirt or mud being tracked onto public roads were observed. <br /> <br />AVAILABILITY OF RECORDS – Rule 5.02.4(1): <br /> All of the required mine records were located at the Bowie No. 2 Mine office, as documented on the <br />attached reco rds checklist. <br /> <br />BACKFILL and GRADING – Rule 4.14 Contemporaneous Reclamation 4.14.1; Approximate Original <br />Contour 4.14.2; Highwall Elimination 4.14.1(2)(f); Steep Slopes 4.14.2, 4.27; Handling of Acid and Toxic <br />Materials 4.14.3; Stabilization of Rills and Gullies 4.14.6: <br /> The operator recently regraded portions of the East Mine slopes in preparation for reseeding. The <br />reseeding took place a couple months ago and is working out very well. The backfilled slopes showed no signs of <br />slope instability or erosio nal gullying. <br /> <br />The operator has also narrowed the East Mine dirt haul road from the entrance up to the former crusher/screener <br />bench level. The regraded road shoulders were rough graded and reseeded. <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 Materials 4.05.8; <br />Impoun dments 4.05.6, 4.05.9; Stream Buffer Zones 4.05.18: <br /> All four of the bin wall ponds at the East Mine were dry. The pond second from the top, pond no. 2, had <br />been recently cleaned out. The ponds’ primary discharge structures were functional and the open ch annel <br />emergency spillways were unblocked. The bin walls themselves appeared to be stable. The sediment pond at the