2010-11-17_REVISION - C1981008 ‎(2)‎

• Permit No: C1981008
• IBM Index Class Name: REVISION
• Doc Date: 11/17/2010
• Doc Name: Transcript MLRB Hearing
• Type & Sequence: PR6
• Email Name: DIH
• Email Name: MPB
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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That was covered in a meeting in
February 15th of 2008 in Grand Junction with NRCS
and the division, and the NRCS provided immediate
guidance as to what topsoil stripping procedures
must be employed immediately to preserve the prime
farmland.
And also procedures were set up to
also look at the -- what we call the Bench 1
suitable subsoil that was already placed on the
eastern portion of the Morgan property to make sure
that it met the standards of suitability, and those
suitability standards covered EC, pH, sodium
absorption, rock fragments.
All kinds of parameters were tested
to make sure that that eastern portion of the
suitable subsoil that was already placed on Morgan
met the standards that prime farmland required.
As time went on, we then submitted
all these procedures in TR 57, which Marcia also
mentioned. That was ultimately approved with no
protest. But the procedures were -- were initiated
on the ground immediately after that Grand Junction
meeting as soon as the prime farmland was announced
by NRCS.
And then as part of PR 6, we