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f ~~~ Umted States <br />~~~ Department of <br />Agnculture <br />• <br />so~i 690 Industrial Blvd. <br />conservatlon Oelta, Colo. 81416 <br />Service <br />soh,ec L' Mine Land Reclamation Permit <br />ro: Colorado 4lestmoreland Inc. <br />Patrica M. Farnsworth <br />Mining Engineer <br />P. 0. Box E <br />Paonia, Colorado 81428 <br />Dear Ms. Farnsworth; <br />r ~ <br />L_J <br /> <br />oa« 7-8-81 <br />According to the 1979 issue of Important Farmlands Map of Oelta County Colorado <br />by SCS and CSU Exp. Sta., the proposed water tank site is not within a cropland <br />area. The truck scale and railroad extension sites are within irrigated land <br />areas, but are not within prime land or lands of national importance. <br />The Stevens gulch water tank site is on soils 32, Delson loam. Although the 32 <br />soil classes at 1Ve 21 irrigated, this area is so located that it has not been <br />flood irrigated and has an extremely low potential for flood irrigation due to <br />the location, ground slope, rocky surface, state water rights and judication of <br />these water rights which would also make the ponding of such water for this site <br />an extremely unlikely possibility. <br />I trust this letter will help answer the questions presented in your letter of <br />7-7-81, copy attached. Please contact us if other data is needed. <br />Sencerely, ~ ~. <br />A. J. Spika, Actin/g District Conservationist <br />T".e SCd co~se•',abcn $+~r~te 3C5-=c. ~ , <br />