2010-01-04_REVISION - C1981008 (4)

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we don't have enough water. Although, we have offered verbally and in writing many times to give more water if needed. We have offered 12 more shares free and they have refused. Federal and State laws say that there must be a dpendable water supply( dependable water supply is one in which enough water is available for irrigation in 8 out of 10 years for crops commonly grown.)The CC Ditch has been here since the early 1900's and has been proven and documented by NRCS and the Department of agriculture as being a very dependable water supply. The DRMS has several documented letters from NRCS stating just that. DRMS should have never approved many things that are documented at the court house and WFC should have never misrepresented NUMEROUS facts. DRMS has documented that 85% of the permit area is agriculture, and has been irrigated either for hay or pasture and the DRMS is going to allow WFC to tell them that now after 100 years that there is not sufficient irrigation water to sustain these farms that were in existence before they were ever here and have those properties put in DRYLAND just because WFC says so ? ?? I think it is time that I call the Department of Agriculture, the US department of Agriculture , the secretary of the interior and the SMCRA and see if they agree with WFC, especially when DRMS laws state they are trying to strengthen and enhance agriculture and maintain, protect, and improve 6 already agricultural lands. They are to return all agricultural lands back to the way they were in better condition and to use them for a higher standard. I believe all of these people will be very interested in this. very falsely developed revision and all of it's misleading so -called facts that are actually lies to save WFC the money and trouble of returning the property to the way it was. When Lance and Ross stood in our field at the Sunshine Corner before they took possession and Said "What kind of Alfalfa do you plant? These are the largest windrows we have ever seen and the prettiest alfalfa field.". At the court house from 1973 on, it is documented as irrigated crop land or irrigated hayland. We are mandated every year by the Department of Agriculture to fill out a census of our production rates and what we plant and how many acres we are irrigating. So I think I would like to invite a representative of the Department of Agriculture, a representative of the Secretary of Interior, the Governors Office, the Department of Land Use, the Montrose County Commissioners, and all of the farmers and ranchers in this area to this meeting especially the ones in the Permit - Revision that WFC cut to pieces with our bad management of irrigation and farming skills. All of the farms mentioned in the revision were irrigated with a GOOD water supply and is so documented clear back in the 1970's, 1980's, and 1990's, and 2000's at the court house. They did not become dry land until WFC made them take their irrigation water off the properties. Who is determining whether or not there is enough irrigation water to do these properties? WFC does not have the right to do that, they are not the farmers. If it was irrigated before they entered the property and the property was producing, then it should be back as irrigated. Your laws state that specifically. Your laws also state that the mine is suppose to be supporting and improving any type of agriculture to a better good not to make it worse than when they entered it. Why would you want to take any type of agricultural land that is being used for grazing, hay, or any other type of feed and has supported that farm for the past 50 years and make it into dry land? All of this contradicts your laws and I think the SMCRA and the US Department of agriculture needs to be informed and I am going to send a packet to each of them because I do not feel that lands that have been irrigated should be allowed to be dried up and I don't believe these other people will either and I don't think the OPERATOR has the right to