2010-02-18_REVISION - C1981008 (3)

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The law states that anyone providing false information in a document, plan, permit, revision, certification, representation to the DRMS is punishable by fine, imprisonment, or both. The entire Permit-Revision #6 is a document containing mostly lies or misrepresentation or falsifying documents and certifying information that is used incorrectly and also containing lies. We are asking the Division to have WFC withdraw all of the Permit-Revision #6 because of the false documentation that it contains and we feel that WFC has deliberately discriminated against us as well as the Division on the Morgan Property and used false information to do so and I think I can prove this. We believe that the rules and regulations set forth by the Federal and State government have been violated and Misused against the Morgan family and property. In 1998, Frank Morgan signed a contract with WFC allowing them to lease the coal. WFC knew for fact that this was Prime Farmland and had been told on numerous occassions. This was 1998 and I want all you to keep this in mind. WFC had a soil survey done in 1998 by Intermountain Resources and Soil Scientist by the name of Jim Irvine. Jim Irvine did what he considered to be a Class 1, very intensive soil survey. The chemical characteristics of a soil survey involve PH factors that according to the National Soil Survey Handbook must qualify within the criteria of 4.5 to 8.4 to be prime farmland. The reason 1998 is so important is because Ross Gubka has documented at the court house in 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2 of 2000 that Prime Farmland must have a PH pf 4.5 • to 8.4 as per the National Soil Survey Handbook. So, Ross Gubka knew prior to this soil survey what the criteria was for prime farmland per the National Soil Survey Handbook. The law states that the Division Must have a copy of the National Soil Survey Handbook in their office at all times. The law also states that the Division must have at least 4 people at the Division that is familiar with Agriculture and Soils. When I say Law, I'm referring to the rules and regulations and laws that the Division has set forth to govern and protect the landowners and the public and regulate the mines in all mining operations. So, the laws that I quote are the Divisions very own laws. When the soil survey was done and showed PH factors within the criteria of the National soil Survey Handbook and that we had Barak -Darvey soils that are best suited for prime farmland, The Secretary of the Interior and the Us Departments of Agriculture should have been contacted immediately according to their laws..Remember, WFC had this documentation and the Division also had this documentation. After contacting these agencies, they would decide on how the soils would be handled in 2 lifts and how the reclamation would be done as quickly as possible to return this prime farmland back into production. None of this was done. Years later, WFC removed some of our very best prime top soil from the place, haul pack after haul pack for three days and 3 nights. Mr. Morgan and Mike went to Lance and asked him what was going on. Lance said, this is a communist state, those who have give, those who need take. I began calling every number in the GJCT telephone book, 25 calls leaving messages at any place that dealt in mining and finally got Dan Mathews. After 3 days and 3 nights of removing our very best prime top soil, 100's of tons, and putting it on Bud Bensons property, it finally quit. DRMS later had a meeting in GJCT which mike and I begged to go to, but the Division said "NO! We kept calling and asking and again and again, they said NO! After the meeting, we were told that they had developed a FORWARD and a BACKWARD plan. • Our topsoil was priceless. Worth just as much to us as the coal was worth to WFC. But everyone