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On � 4 <br />2700 Road and south of BB Road, Dean Stindt of the NRCS stated that the area of Barx soil type <br />was potential for prime farmland but only if it had an adequate and dependable supply of water. <br />After he did an inspection of the property in 1992 he concluded that the historic practices d <br />include intensive irrigation management and there was not adequate supply of water for the Barx <br />soil type in this area to be considered prime farmland soils. Th j"ll tter is found in Attachment <br />2.04.9 -6. Soil type 98E is a renaming of the original 70B soil type cover in the 1992 l etter . <br />10.2 Prime Farmland Determination - 2008 <br />In early 2008, The Norwood office of the MRCS determined that the Begay, Barx and Darvey soil <br />ty pes (equivale to`°the 98A and 98E soils- -in-the- permit area "west" of 2700 Road), met the <br />quali ic of "Prime Farmland" as defined by the'USDA; - provided that they were previously <br />irrigated and managed for prime farmland and size to be economic. See letter <br />from Dave Dearstyne of the NRCS dated February 11, 2008 in "Attachment 2.04.9 -10. Part of the <br />- reason for this reversal was due to a typographical error in the previous NRCS documentation. <br />... <br />Based on his conclusion, a major effort was made to revise the topsoil handling procedures to <br />-' account for the prime farmland. soils. This work was done in the latter part of 2008 and the early <br />part of 2009 under Technical Revision 57, y whicWwas:submitted to the DRMS in March 2008. Very <br />specific and detailed soil stripping °and replacement procedures were developed in this Revision <br />accounting for the prime farmlan in the permit area: "it -fate alized by all parties that <br />the term "prime farmland ", as de c din the.-previous letters, needed clarification. Basically, <br />prime farmland =oniTexiste: where =there is:,an a d de endable supply of water and the <br />land must be economically .viable to irrigate and farm. This is important since some areas of prime <br />farmland soil may exist which are noftFuly= prime farmlands. Examples of these situations follow: <br />a) Areas wwhich -rnay- have °not been historically farmed in the past for any number of reasons <br />b) Areas which are too small to. irrigate- efficiently and economically <br />C) A ch may have been irrigated in the past but the water no longer exists to <br />adequate and dependable supply.'` <br />(Revised October 09) <br />2.04.9 -14 <br />b (t)1\� <br />permit an <br />c p� � , I <br />ru0-0 <br />