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p.4 <br />1 <br />WFC entered the Morgan property and mined it with the consent of the DRMS after having a <br />Class One Soil Survey done stating that it was Prime Farmland. WFC KNEW for fact that we <br />raised alfalfa and had NO livestock. All of our irrigation had been in place long before the <br />MINE was even in this country. DRMS was also aware of these facts. And the OSM has been <br />made aware for many months now and still are allowing the STATE and WFC to proceed <br />without a legal plan in place. We have a Committinent from WFC as well as the STATE to <br />return all of this to the Prime Farmland Cropland status that it was prior to the mine entering the <br />property and now that plan is also being disregarded and not kept in force as the DRMS and <br />WFC stated and promised. DRMS and WFC is trying to change our Prime Farmland to Dry land <br />with upcoming revisions that are illegal. They stole the soil and don't know how to fix it to <br />guarantee bond release, so they are trying to change our very best Prime Farmland to daryland.. <br />I will send all of the actual rules and laws and proof of violations as soon as I can get them typed <br />up. I will be filing a civil suit in the amount of 5 million dollars against the State and WFC as <br />soon as the time frame allows. Some one is going to pay for the theft of our prime soils that have <br />been stolen and the DRMS allowed the mine to do the theft, so charges will be filed against both. <br />If the laws, rules, and regulations had been followed governing Prime Farm lands and the rights <br />of the landowner had been protected to the fullest as these laws were intended to do, we wouldn't <br />have to be filing this. But, as I have stated, our environment was not protected, the landowner <br />was not protected, and the landowner is being discriminated against, and our Prime Farmland <br />was not protected. The history of our land is gone. And, all any one says is that it is unfortunate, <br />and we must just accept it and go on. I don't think so, someone is going to pay for the loss of our <br />prime soils and the way of life that we had prior to mining. The Sunshine Corner produced more <br />alfalfa and corn per acre than any other piece of property on the Morgan place. They took our <br />VERY BEST. Our soils ranged up to 72 inches deep, rich, thick soils, BarxDarvey soils that are <br />irreplaceable. If the DRMS had stuck to the two-lift operation that was in place prior to the mine <br />entering the property and did the prime farmland investigation as required by law, we would have <br />no need to file a suit. But, they are continuously violating the same laws instead of fixing them. <br />WFC again was removing soils off our property and DRMS did put a stop to it, but when we <br />called Sandy Brown and tried to get them to stop, she didn't. So again for 2 days, they removed <br />our soils. Mr. Berry did finally put a stop to it. Do they really believe that if we had 1000' s of <br />tons of prime top soil on this place that we would just give it away instead of using on other areas <br />of Mr. Morgans 2000 acres??? You don't give away prime topsoil or any other subsoil or <br />materials that could be sold commercially for a very high price if we had no need for them! <br />If the mine had just come in, removed our soils, took their coal, put our soils back to cropland as <br />they were, there would be no need for any of this. And even now, when we are begging them to <br />put our property back to the irrigated prime farm land crop land as it was, the DRMS and WFC <br />are not only fighting us, but putting us down in every breath they take as farmers. <br />Discrimination. <br />Thank you for your time, <br />124