2008-03-03_GENERAL DOCUMENTS - C1981008

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We have sent several objections to allowing the permit azea even be renewed because of violations they have done and they had not ever come and talked with us. Some things needed to be worked out and we sent certified mail requesting it not be renewed because of distortion of facts. Ross said that Mr. Irvine printed the value of the PH for prime topsoil not to exceed 7.4. This was an internal paper that had not even been completed yet . Mr. Irvine was suppose to be a very top soil scientist. Avery educated man. Out of all the reseazch and the numerous pages of data claimed in all these yeazs which state 8.4, I"m sorry I do not buy this. Ross has permitted the land over and over agin making 1000's of copies and in these copies over and over again, the PH for prime farmland has always been 8.4. Ross is also very well educated and this stuff is almost automatic for him. Out of all of these pages, why is just this one unfinished internal paper being used now? I worked for Western Fuels for 13 years and for those soil types, slopes, alfalfa, the PH has always been up to 8.4. Mr. Deazstyne seems to know his stuff and classified Morgans' property All of Morgans property south west of the intersection of BB and 27 Roads as Prime Farmland. This we know to be true and was a very good outcome of the meeting. This land has been farmed by the Morgans for the last 50 yeazs and by me personally for 17 yeazs. Ross had a Backwazds Plan and a Forwazd Plan. We have filed a default with Western Fuels because of the 3 days and 3 nights of removing our prime topsoil and putting it on Bensons. We don't know for sure how they can correct this especially at the time they started doing it,. Mr. Frank Morgan and Mike Morgan asked Lance why are you taking our best topsoil off our property and putting it on Bensons. Lance said this is not a democracy, this is communism, those who have give and those who do not, Take. This wasn't a PH error. They knew for fact that this was some of our very best topsoil and they had really messed up on Bensons by putting the road base gravel off of 27 road in with the topsoil and nothing would grow, so they took our best topsoil to satisfy MR. Benson. We begged them not to and after 3 days and 3 nights asked them if they were not going to stop ,that we would contact someone. They have always made you out to be the bad guy, so we didn't know where to turn, now we do. Bensons property did not have anywhere neaz the type of soil we have. This was put on his place just North and East of 2700 Road. We do not know what the forwazd plan should be for this, but that topsoil can never be replaced nor can the prime topsoil put down Ramp 1. Ross said a 40 inch depth would be put back. That should be a minimum of 48 inches. If there is more, then more should be returned tour property. They have always done 2 lifts. When they got over here, they did One lift and threw everything together. We are thankful that they have to go back to two lifts, but they should have to get all of our soil to bedrock regardless of the depth. I have enclosed a photo form 1998 of the "Sunshine Corner" just SW of the intersection of BB and 2700 Road. The term "Improved Pasture" sounds so much better than Dryland and for the azeas that aze actually dry land, this is a good term. But, they want to put this "Sunshine Corner back into this Improved Pasture which is unacceptable. This was one of our leading producers for alfalfa and corn. Just prior to them taking possession, this field had been re-done with prime alfalfa and we had sold Weimers 200 ton of Alfalfa off that one little field besides Patty Morgan 100 ton. Weimers have written the Division a letter to that effect. The mine leases the coal and they pay a dollaz amount for the value of that coal. We have the surface rights leased and what we have produced in the past , we aze losing out $557,000 for the yeazs the mine has already had it. In our lease agreement with Frank Morgan and Western Fuels, they were going to return the