2012-07-23_INSPECTION - C1996084

• Permit No: C1996084
• IBM Index Class Name: Inspection
• Doc Date: 7/23/2012
• Doc Name: Inspection Report
• From: DRMS
• To: Ron Thompson
• Inspection Date: 7/17/2012
• Email Name: JHB
• Email Name: DIH
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

July 17, 2012 C -1996- 084 /Lorencito Canyon Mine JHB
Inspection Topic Summary
NOTE: Y= Inspected N =Not Inspected R= Comments Noted V =Violation Issued NA Applicable
Y - Air Resource Protection
N -Availability of Records
R - Backfill & Grading
R - Excess Spoil and Dev. Waste
NA - Explosives
N - Fish & Wildlife
R - Hydrologic Balance
Y - Gen. Compliance With Mine Plan
R - Other
NA - Processing Waste
R -Roads
R - Reclamation Success
R - Revegetation
NA - Subsidence
R - Slides and Other Damage
NA - Support Facilities On -site
Y -Signs and Markers
NA - Support Facilities Not On -site
Y - Special Categories Of Mining
R - Topsoil
COMMENTS
This was a partial inspection conducted by Janet Binns of CDRMS .Bobby Steele met the inspector at the mine
entrance road. Mr. Steele was completing maintenance repairs of previously identified gullies at the Lorencito
Canyon Mine.
The inspector had been at the New Elk Mine when New Elk Coal Company personnel contacted Mr. Steele who
was completing work at Lorencito. NECC still had an excavator and haul truck on site. The inspector chose to
meet Mr. Steele at the Lorencito Canyon Mine to confirm gully repairs and detennine if any additional gully work
was required before the equipment was removed from the site.
The mine site has been very dry. The region has been receiving afternoon thunderstonms. However, the afternoon
of the inspection stones formed west of the mine site and went south of the mine. Another stone formed west of
the mine site and went north of the mine, leaving the Lorencito Mine dry. Bobby noted that was very typical of
the weather patterns in the area, and Lorencito was often missed by the localized thunderstorms.
BACKFILL and GRADING — Rule 4.14
Contemporaneous Reclamation 4.14.1; Approximate Original Contour 4.14.2; Highwall Elimination
4.14.1(2)(f); Steep Slopes 4.14.2, 4.27; Handling of Acid and Toxic Materials 4.14.3; Stabilization of Rills and
Gullies 4.14.6:
NECC conducted limited Rill and Gully repairs on the reclaimed areas in accordance with Rule 4.15.7(5)(a)
during the early part of July. NECC was finalizing these repairs at the time of the inspection.
EXCESS SPOIL and DEVELOPMENT WASTE — Rule 4.09
Placement, Drainage Control; Surface Stabilization:
The three fills on the mine site: Fill 7, Fill 8, and F1119 remain in good condition, with good vegetative cover and
no signs of instability. NECC repaired two small gullies on the upper bench of Fill 8. A gully that had formed
immediately east of Fill 8 was appropriately repaired as well.
Number of Partial Inspection this Fiscal Year: 1
Number of Complete Inspections this Fiscal Year: 0
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