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be easily irrigated if WFC or a future landowner decides to make more water available for this <br />area. <br />4) The Morgan property south of BB Road and west of 2700 Road of 107.96 acres that has been <br />designated in the pre -mine discussion (Section 2.04.3) as Irrigated Cropland (IC). All of this <br />tract will be restored to Irrigated Cropland (IC). As previously mentioned, a large portion of this <br />IC area is also designated as Prime Farmland. <br />Prior to mining, the Morgans irrigated their property via sideroll, gated pipe, and <br />traveling big gun. <br />Center pivot irrigation, siderolls, and big guns will be used to provide the post -mine <br />irrigation for the reclaimed Morgan Property. All design calculations and layouts for this <br />system are included in Attachment 2.05.4(2)(e)-7. <br />As of April, 2010, Morgan has leased 62 shares of water (or whatever is necessary) to <br />WFC to irrigate all of their property within the permit area. The lease addendum letter <br />concerning the additional water is included in Attachment 2.05.4(2)(e)-7. Therefore, the <br />entire Morgan -owned area in the permit will be reclaimed as Irrigated Cropland (IC). The <br />Morgan Property contains significant amounts of Prime Farmland. This is discussed in <br />detail in permit Section 2.06.6. <br />5) The parcel of 29.36 acres in the extreme southeast corner of the permit area, which is <br />now owned by WFC. As of the start of PR -08, this parcel has not yet been reclaimed since it <br />contains the main overburden stockpile for the mine. <br />This tract was originally classified as Irrigated Pasture (IP) in the pre -mine land use but <br />no water came with the WFC purchase of this tract and none is allocated for future use. <br />Portions of the tract were "Flood Irrigated" in the past. <br />This land was reclassified as Dryland Pasture (DP) in PR -06. <br />This 29.36 acre area will be graded to a very mild slope which will be planned for future <br />irrigation, if any future landowner decides to irrigate the property. This slope is expected to be <br />2% to 4%. This can only be done after the overburden is removed for final reclamation. <br />All of these changes have been made to Map 2.05.4-5 Post Mine Land Use and Vegetation. <br />In the version of the Map 2.05.4-5 prior to PR -06, an area of 6.73 acres on the Mel Staats property <br />in the southeast corner of the permit was labeled as "Irrigated Farmland Alfalfa Hayland". This <br />area was incorrectly labeled on the map since the area was actually reclaimed as Reclaimed <br />Irrigated Pastureland (IP) years ago with the seed mix for this land use type. This area was seeded <br />in the year 1995. In fact, Mel Staats had interactions with WFC over the years and attended the <br />Phase 2 bond release and had no objections to the reclamation of the property. <br />January 2015 TR -66 2.05.4(2)(e) - 9 <br />