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J <br />7 <br />E <br />J <br />7 <br />7 <br />l <br />7 <br />7 <br />i <br />7 <br />7 <br />42 <br />1 decision about prime. Could you repeat those two <br />2 dates and what happened? <br />3 MR. LEWICKI: Yeah. I think that's a <br />4 very important distinction on the prime farmland. <br />5 In 1999 we did a soil survey. We hired a soil <br />6 specialist, independent, to conduct a soil survey of <br />7 the lands that we were going to add to the permit, <br />8 basically west of 2700 Road. The Morgan property is <br />9 in that. <br />10 In that soil survey they evaluated <br />11 prime farmlands. At that time the Colorado <br />12 Important Farmland Inventory required that the pH of <br />13 the soil be less than 8.4 to be -- 7.4 to be prime <br />14 farmland, and at that time it was above 7.4. So <br />15 they wrote in the report that Barx soil on the <br />16 Morgan property is not prime for that reason. <br />17 And later on when it was evaluated in <br />18 2008, that document was recognized by NRCS as having <br />19 a typo in it. It should have read 8.4, which would <br />20 have meant that it was prime. <br />21 MS. GREEN: And what caused it to be <br />22 evaluated in 2008? What was the trigger for that? <br />23 MR. LEWICKI: The NRCS announced it, <br />24 and they were -- they, I believe, asked to do <br />25 another evaluation. <br />