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September 26, 2011 C -1982 -057 /Seneca II -W Mine SLB <br /> <br /> <br />Number of Partial Inspection this Fiscal Year: 7 <br />Number of Complete Inspections this Fiscal Ye ar: 1 <br /> <br /> Page 2 of 4 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Inspection Topic Summary <br />NOTE: Y =Inspected N =Not Inspected R =Comments Noted V =Violation Issued NA =Not Applicable <br />NA - Air Resource Protection <br />N - Availability of Records <br />N - Backfill & Grading <br />NA - Excess Spoil and Dev. Waste <br />NA - Explosives <br />N - Fish & Wildlife <br />R - Hydrologic Ba lance <br />Y - Gen. Compliance With Mine Plan <br />NA - Other <br />NA - Processing Waste <br /> <br />N - Roads <br />N - Reclamation Success <br />R - Revegetation <br />NA - Subsidence <br />R - Slides and Other Damage <br />N - Support Facilities On -site <br />N - Signs and Markers <br />NA - Support Facilitie s Not On -site <br />NA - Special Categories Of Mining <br />N - Topsoil <br /> <br /> <br />COMMENTS <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 Lim its 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 />Impoundments 4.05.6, 4.05.9; Stream Buffer Zones 4.05.18: <br /> Ponds 006, 016, and 017 and stock tanks T5, T25, T26, and T27 all held w ater. Drainages in the Pond 016 <br />and 017 watersheds had not yet been repaired since the July thunderstorms that damaged them. The drainages are <br />all functional but not stable. <br /> <br />REVEGETATION – Rule 4.15 Vegetative Cover; Timing: <br /> Shrub transplant areas we re observed in the reclaimed facilities area, Pond 006, and former Topsoil <br />Stockpile I location. Cattle were grazing in the North Pit area, concentrated near Stock Tank T5. <br /> <br />SLIDES and DAMAGE - Rule 4.12: <br /> Work was underway on the Pond 016A slide repair . A bulldozer was moving material from the base of <br />the slide into Pond 016A. A compactor was working in the backfilled Pond 016A. An excavator was removing <br />sediment from the south end of Pond 016A, and a truck was moving the material to the approved loc ations <br />northeast of the pond. <br /> <br /> <br />ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS/COMPLIANCE <br /> <br />No enforcement actions were initiated as a result of this inspection, nor are any pending. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />