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