2020-06-04_PERMIT FILE - C1981008 (60)

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corn, oats or wheat was grown some time in the past. We also acknowledge that you leased the property to Gordon Smith who planted wheat in one or two fields at the north end of the property for several years. 2. We apologize for the incorrect statement that there has not been any active farnvng on the property for 15 years. We now understand that any sort of irrigation, farming, ranching activity on land can be considered farming. According to the mining agency rules, we needed to conduct a pre -mine land use study to establish what the pre -none uses of the land are prior to mining. This was done for your property in 1999 and was approved as part of the permit It does show that the majority of your land was irrigated to some level at that tithe. It is not possible for any mining company to conduct extensive historical studies of land use on properties. 3. WFC also acknowledges that you were able to irrigate all of the more level ground on the south 3/4 of the property as well as the field by Tuttle Draw. We believe by aerial • photographs that Gordon Snuth was able to irrigate this area with the same 24 shares of CCC ditch water that still exists on the property. We acknowledge all of the above items in your letter and we wish we could irrigate just , as you did and not have to worry about any standards. It is important for you to know that WFC has a State approved Irrigated Pasture reference area with approved ratio of CCC water shares per acre, for all irrigated pasture lands to be reclaimed. In order for as to get our reclamation passed by the State Regulatory Agent (DRMS), we must show that the vegetation cover and vegetation production per acre on the reclaimed lands closely matches the same levels of the reference area. Both reference area and reclaimed lands must be managed/ watered the same. Original Proposal in Permit Revision 06 (now withdrawn) The revegetated irrigated pasture on reclaimed lands must be studied in years 9 and 10 u