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before drilling, blasting, or mining, in accordance with 4.25.3 and in a manner that prevents <br />• mixing or contaminating. <br />The productivity of the land prior to mining, including appropriate classification as PRIME <br />Farmlands, as well as the average yields. <br />Requirements for prime farmland to ensure that the land will have agricultural productive <br />capacity which is equal after mining to PRE mining levels and the LAND IS NOT LOST AS AN <br />IMPORTANT NATIONAL RESOURCE. <br />The operator must lease or use other sources of water to restore prime farmlands back into <br />production. <br />The management level is what the USDA determines to be a high level of management, not <br />what the operator or DRMS thinks our management level was or what other farmers management <br />level was. It is a set amount determined by the USDA irregardless of what they think we were <br />doing. <br />The National soil survey handbook is the official reference for Prime farmland soils and must <br />be kept in the Divisions office. <br />Technical revisions have been used inappropriately. <br />Permit renewals and permit revisions have not been publicized properly and any objections <br />have been disregarded when DRMS saw fit. The landowner has not been involved and made a <br />part of decisions concerning his own property. The DRMS and WFC only involve the landowner <br />if he happens to read a public notice in the paper and if he understands it and if he can have an <br />objection filed in time even if he has not seen any of the material. Lease agreements have not <br />and cannot be met now because of the damages caused by the removal of our prime soils. <br />• The DRMS nor WFC can change our prime farmland to dryland in a revision according to all <br />of your rules and regulations. The law state that the landowner must request in writing for this <br />type of change. And if the DRMS had done their jobs, the Secretary of Interior, the Secretary of <br />Agriculture, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture would have already been notified and they <br />would have to follow the plans set by them. The operator is not allowed to put this prime <br />farmland in a revision and the DRMS, again are not doing their jobs. <br />V ' <br />