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rz? <br />2700 Road and south of BB Road, Dean Stindt of the N <br />?_ - - hat the area of Barx soil type <br />wad potential for prime farmland but only if it had an adequate and dependable supply of water. <br />After he did an inspection of the property in.1992 he concluded that the historic practices di `not <br />include intensive irrigation management and there was not adequate supply of water for the Barx <br />soil type in this area to be considered prime farmland soils. Th's fitter is found in Attachment <br />2.04.9-6. Soil type 98E is a renaming of the original 70B soil type covered in the 1992 letter. <br />10.2 Prime Farmland Determination - 2008 <br />In early 2008, The Norwood office of the NRCS determined that the Begay, Barx and Darvey soil <br />--- <br />quali tons of me Farmland" as defined by <br />irrigated aftd managed for prime farmland and-w( <br />from Dave Dearstyne of the NRCS dated February 11, 2008in <br />they were previously <br />size to be economic. See letter <br />reason for this reversal was due to a typographical error in the previous <br />Based on his conclusion, a major effort was made to revise the topsoil. <br />it area "west" of 2700 Road), met the <br />t 2.04.9-10. Part of the <br />ocumentation. <br />andling p?dures to <br />ccoun or the prime- farmland-soils. This work was done in the latter part of 2008 and the early <br />part of 2009 under Technical Revision 57, which'-was-submitted to the DRMS in March 2008. Very <br />specific and etaified soil'stripping°andi-replappment procedures e developed in this Revision <br />accounting for t?m.a ,m1 <br />and soils in the permit area t was?l? atomized by all parties that <br />the term " P r prime farmland", as described inheap evious letters, needed clarification.Basically, <br />-.!?„?,. aid <br />prime farmlC`Qmjcally a?"Xists-whefe>ther:e rA_a ad?te-mendable supply of water and the <br />land must bviable to irrigate and farm. This is important since some areas of prime <br />farmland soil may exist which are'" <br /> <br />Examples of these situations follow: <br />a) Areas vcfa mayhave-nofi been historically farmed in the past for any number of reasons <br />b) Areas which are too small 1-0-Yrigate, efficiently and economically <br />??. <br />c) A !;!$*iich may have been irrigated in the past but the water no longer exists to permit an <br />adequate and dependable supply. <br />(Revised October 0 9) 2.04.9-14 <br />_- S Al \Otl <br />V <br />p?