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May 28 15 07:59p Joellen 9708647682 p.2 <br />Dear Mr. Hernandez and Mr. Bowles: I am really <br />concerned about this "Normal Husbandry" practices that <br />you are having meetings about according to Mel Staats. I <br />am all for bond release, but you must follow the law. <br />Your office was empowered by the Governor to enforce <br />and carry out all the rules and regulations that were put <br />into law by President Carter in 1977. These rules and <br />regulations follow the format of the Federal Governments <br />and are as stringent if not more so than theirs. I know all <br />of you are new at this mine over here. The people that <br />were here from day one are all gone, moved on, or retired <br />with the exception of Mike Boulay who was mostly in <br />charge of the hydrology here and not involved in the day <br />to day permitting and revisions. <br />I am going to give a quick course here because 1 know we <br />are headed in the direction of a war if these laws are <br />broken again and decisions are made without reading the <br />rules and regulations that are in force. <br />The new horizon two became the new horizon two <br />because it was not contiguous to the existing Pea Body <br />Mine so it needed its own permit. In 1992 Dean Stindt <br />who was with NRCS, at that time, did a prime farmland <br />investigation as required in 2.04.12 of your rules and <br />regulations. At that time, I was there working for WFC <br />before they had even gotten the shovel put together to do <br />the mining. Dean Stindt talked with Mel Sta.ats, the <br />irrigator, of the property being inspected. Dean found <br />