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45 <br />1 ring right. If they said it was a typo, an error on <br />2 the first one at 7.4 and then it went to 8.4 in <br />3 2008, knowing what I know about that, the 7.4 is a <br />4 whole lot more desirable than the 8.4. 8.4, you <br />5 could hardly grow alfalfa on that. <br />6 MR. LEWICKI: Well, what it was was <br />7 that the pH of the actual soil is between 7.4 and <br />8 8.4. <br />9 MR. AMICK: Okay. That's a different <br />10 story. <br />11 MR. LEWICKI: So what it meant was <br />12 was when Jim Irvine in 1999 looked at that prime <br />13 farmland inventory -- Colorado report of farmland <br />14 inventory book, and it said that Barx soil is a <br />15 prime soil in Colorado provided that the pH of the <br />16 soil is below 7.4. And we had the soil pH test and <br />17 they were above 7.4. So he said, This is not prime <br />18 farmland. <br />19 And there was also an earlier letter <br />20 from NRCS and there was a piece of Barx soil in the <br />21 eastern part of the permit, and NRCS said at that <br />22 time that soil was not prime. <br />23 So we didn't think it was prime, and <br />24 the NRCS in that February 15 meeting said, This is <br />25 nobody's fault. The soil survey was done correctly. <br />