2010-02-18_REVISION - C1981008 (3)

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• The first time that we met the DRMS was several years back. We were not aware of public notices in the paper or that we should be watching for them. Mr. Morgan was a man of honor and figured if a contract was signed, there was nothing else to worry about. This is very untrue. WFC was removing our prime topsoil haul pack after haul pack 3 of them running constantly day and night. Mr. Morgan and Mike Morgan went to the coal mine and asked Lance what was going on. He said this is a communist state, those who have give and those who don't take. I began calling every number to do with mining in the yellow pages and finally got Dan Mathews. I told him that WFC was removing our prime topsoil from the place and putting it on Bensons. After 3 days and 3 nights and leaving messages everywhere sometimes 25 calls a day, after 3 days It finally stopped. Our primes soils are priceless to us and trying to make a substitute is not the same. Our prime soils are worth as much as WFC's coal. DRMS, NRCS, WFC and many more had a meeting in Grand Jct which Mike and I begged to go. We called over and over asking to please allow us to be at this meeting and they said NO. At this meeting, Ross Gubka furnished a document by Jim Irvine, the soil scientist that did a Class Ior A survey for our place way back in 1998. He blamed Jim claiming that our property as well as others as NOT Prime. There fore, they developed a backwards and a forward plan and just swept all the facts under the table. 1998 Mr. Morgan signed a contract with WFC. According to the law that the DRMS has to keep in their office the National Soil Survey Handbook that say prime soils have a PH of 4.5 to 8.4. At the court house in all documentation, it states the same from 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2 of 2000. WFC has provided false documentation through out all of Permit-Revision as well as false documentation from the very beginning and used lies in all of their permit revisions • and in their technical revisions. The DRMS is a Colorado regulatory agency that has laws governing mining and reclamation based on the Federal Government laws and must be as stringent. DRMS's job is to make sure the Operator follows these laws and make sure the Operator is doing their job. Here are the facts: I began tracking down Jim Irvine and in fact, did not state that this was not prime farm land. This is the document that Jim Irvine wrote and Ross used to say was a mistake by Jim Irvine and said that Jim Irvine said our soils were not prime. I'll read that document. And mind you, DRMS had the same document. READ Our Soils were prime and DRMS did not do their jobs and neither did WFC. Our soils should have been 2 lift operation as well as NONE of our soils could ever be removed from this place and the Department of Agriculture and the Secretary of Interior had to be notified immediately before WFC could even enter this property. Next misused fact and documentation. WFC was a very small area in N112 in 1992 and 1993, when mine activities have actually been documented as the start of WFC. And remember, they haven't even been here 20 years but they are the experts on how we farmed, what we grew, and how we irrigated, even though, they weren't even around. Here is a letter written by NRCS agent Dean Stindt. READ and Show map. Now to the actual permit-revision #6. There is not a farmer here that has ever done or does "Wild Flood irrigating, allowing the water to flow across the land at will. Ross has not only insulted us, but this entire revision is nothing but lies and falsehoods. DRMS laws state that any false information provided in any document, permit, revision, plan, application, or anything • provided to the DRMS or any information withheld for the purpose of mining is punishable by