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State laws, contacting the Secretary of interior and the US Department of Agriculture and NOT <br />• permit WFC to enter our property until all prime farmland plans were met.. WFC did not start <br />mining this property until years later which the DRMS had plenty of time to contact the Secretary <br />of Interior and the US Department of Agriculture. Each Haul Pac at that time, held about 100 <br />tons. Topsoil of a prime consistency was worth about $100 per ton.And this quote is not for <br />GOOD quality topsoil as ours was ) There was 3 haul pacs for three days and three nights, <br />hauling 100 tons each. They removed a minimum of $2,350,000 worth of prime topsoil off of <br />this property and put it on Bud Bensons and YOU allowed them to do it. YOU violated every <br />rule and regulation set forth governing PRIME TOPSOIL because NO PRIME SOILS CAN <br />EVER LEAVE THE PROPERTY THEY ARE ON! AND that is figuring the VERY <br />MINIMUM for PRIME soils. THEN in 2008. 10 years later, 10 years later, you come up with a <br />back ward and forward plan which we do not accept or agree to. We had soils up to 60 inches <br />deep and YOU want to put back 22 inches. The Bench One Material , the salt content and <br />conductivity was raised from 4 which we had less that 4, we had 3.88 maximum, you have <br />allowed them to raise to 6 And then it says that this will not affect NEW seeding but once <br />established, it could. And then it says, MAYBE not alfalfa or grasses, but we DON "T JUST <br />RAISE ALFALFA. What about Corn, and wheat, and oats, and everything we raise. You have <br />NO RIGHTS nor does WFC to make those kind of decisions about our prime topsoil according <br />to ALL FEDERAL AND STATE LAWS WITHOUT THE WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE <br />LANDOWNER!!!!! WE HAD PRIME TOPSOIL OF UP 60 INCHES OR MORE AND YOU <br />WANT US TO ACCEPT 22 and WE WEREN'T ALLOWED AT THE MEETING TO PUT IN <br />OUR KNOWLEDGE AT ALL. WE HAVE BEEN VIOLATED BY WESTERN FUELS AND <br />• THE DIVISION OF RECLAMATION, MINING, AND SAFETY!!!!! Also, when they were <br />doing the soil sample for the bench one material to be suitable, they HIT lots of rock and was <br />unable to auger some of the sample points and in our Prime Soils, THERE WERE NO <br />ROCKS! ! !! AND then what happens in the future ?? Say we need another soil survey done for <br />whatever reason. WHERE ARE OUR PRIME SOILS 60 inches DEEP THAT HAVE BEEN <br />THERE FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS ? ? ?? NOW we have 22 inches and then a mess under <br />that. THIS IS NOT RIGHT!!! <br />You have NO right to take away what we had and You have no right to have allowed WFC to do <br />that. You have violated ALL of the Federal and State Laws. <br />There is a lot of things done wrong to us here and we were just asking for our property to be put <br />back so that we could go on with our lives. YOU and WFC are threatening our livelihoods and <br />trying to take away the only jobs we have and we have begged you to put us back the way we <br />were. But, instead we have had to fight every bit of the way and are still fighting and if this <br />continues, we have NOTHING to lose to go forward with whatever suits we need to file, but they <br />will not be just against WFC, they will also be against the Division for failing to do their jobs and <br />upholding the rules and regulations that were set forth to govern the mining industry and <br />protecting the landowner from this terrible thing that has happened. <br />We have told you in over 50 letters and in Person that this is UNLIKE every farm in this area. <br />Mr. Morgan has Used this farm for the ENTIRE support of his family. THERE was NO other <br />jobs that he did. He did not work off this farm and neither did Mrs. Morgan and EVERY <br />• EVERY farmer here has used other sources of employment. Bud Benson or no one else has <br />