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Court awarded the senior Morgans $200,000 in damages as compensation for <br />future lost productivity of the Morgan property. Id. at p. 7, last paragraph. <br />SUMMARY OF ARGUMENT <br />Because judicial review of agency action is limited to evidence before the <br />agency at the time it made its decision, this Court may not consider evidence that <br />only came into existence after the Board made its decision, and may not consider <br />evidence properly excluded by the Board. <br />The Board correctly ruled that it lacked jurisdiction to consider whether the <br />pre -2008 topsoil management constituted a violation of the Colorado Coal <br />Program. No statute authorizes the Board to take up an alleged violation sua <br />sponte and without following the procedure specified in C.R.S. § 34 -33 -123 and <br />124. The result of that procedure in this case was a finding by DRMS that Western <br />Fuels - Colorado's topsoil management practices did not violate the Colorado Coal <br />Program. Also, other aspects of the topsoil management had already been <br />reviewed and approved in TR -57 after plaintiffs withdrew their objections. The <br />time for any further appeal or review of TR -57 expired more than a year before the <br />hearing on PR -6. <br />The Board properly found that the reclamation plan meets statutory <br />requirements for several reasons. The suitability of the Bench 1 material as subsoil <br />00145923 2 ; 11 <br />