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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developed a detailed plan of handling all the soils
that are on the property, and what we did was we
took the mixed topsoil stockpiles that were already
in place, we took the subsoil that was found to be
suitable, and then we added the remaining soils that
would be stripped under the new procedures with A
and B lifts, and we made a plan for reclaiming the
entire Morgan property to prime farmland.
And all of those areas exceeds 48
inches in depth of either suitable subsoil and
topsoil combined. And we did everything we could,
including a request from the Morgans to preserve the
Bench 1 material, which is really considered
overburden.
It's material right below the
subsoil, and that's not required in the prime
farmland regs to salvage that and put it back on the
same property, but Western Fuels, nevertheless,
committed to do that at the Morgan's request.
So we believe that after five
adequacy reviews with the division, the topsoil -
handling procedures were gone over in tremendous
detail.
I have been working with the division
for 30 years. This was the toughest revision I have