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1 <br />2 <br />3 <br />4 <br />5 <br />6 <br />7 <br />8 <br />9 <br />10 <br />11 <br />12 <br />13 <br />14 <br />15 <br />16 <br />17 <br />18 <br />19 <br />20 <br />21 <br />22 <br />23 <br />24 <br />25 <br />X <br />Some topsoil had been distributed in <br />this southeastern corner. So this is what was on <br />the ground when we met with NRCS in February of <br />2008, and as Greg mentioned, we needed to -- we <br />required the mine to immediately change their <br />topsoil- handling process on the ground. <br />No longer could they -- would they be <br />allowed to just strip the topsoil in a single lift <br />and create piles that were combined Lift A and Lift <br />B topsoil. They would now have to start separating <br />the topsoils by lifts. We also required that they <br />evaluate the suitability of the backfill that had <br />been placed in this eastern end of the Morgan <br />property. <br />And Walsh & Associates was hired by <br />Western Fuels to come in and conduct a soil survey <br />testing program to evaluate that suitability of that <br />material to function as subsoil. <br />This is just more an instructional <br />slide. This is looking at the western end of the <br />Morgan property as of just this past July. And I'd <br />like to describe, I guess, visually the process that <br />the mine has been using since March 2008. <br />You can see that the field here to <br />the west continues to be farmed. This first line <br />