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Mr. David A. Berry <br />Director, Office of Mined Land Reclamation <br />Division of Reclamation, Mining, and Safety <br />1313 Sherman Street, Room 215 <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />RE. permit Revision #6 and the violation of Rules and Regulations governing surface mining <br />Dear Mr. Berry: <br />We are requesting, again the withdrawal and disallowance of permit revision # 6 based on the <br />numerous false documentation, false information, false data, and the misuse of'the Hiles and <br />regulations governing surface coal mine as well as the misuse of terminology and the deliberate <br />attempt to not only disqualify prime farmlands and alluvials within the permit area but to be- little <br />the farmer in the attempt to do so. <br />We are also requesting a copy of all permit- rencwals from 1992 on. We do not see or understand <br />how this operator acquired,a permit renewal with so many violations. We still have not received <br />a copy of permit renewal # 5 that we objected to and that has been renewed to 2013 and we are <br />strongly objecting to this renewal based upon all of the misinformation and the destruction of <br />facts presented in permit revision #6. We have requested the copy of permit renewal. #5, 27 <br />times from the state and WFC also had been provided with this request, not only at the public <br />meeting, but in numerous communications prior to that time. We still have never got to see this <br />and it is still not at the court house. <br />1.04(40) Historically used for cropland means (1) lands that have been used for cropland for <br />ANY 5 years or more out of the 10 years immediately preceding the acquisition including <br />purchase lease or option. Remember the lease a was signed in 1999 and WFC has only been <br />mining since 1992. Attached is a copy of the 1998 lease, last page of agreement. All of this land <br />could have set idle in DIRT for 5 years and still qualify for cropland!! But it had always been <br />cropped and irrigated for 50 years since Morgans owned it and even prior to that when they <br />bought it. <br />1 .04(70) irreparable damage to the environment. Everything around us is our environment, air <br />water, soils. etc. Irreparable harm to the environment means any damage to the environment that <br />cannot be corrected by actions of the applicant. Barx Darvey soils cannot be duplicated. They <br />can develop a soil that might be able to put our ground back using our own bench one material, <br />but they cannot give us back WHAT WE HAD. But they have raised the salt content and this <br />will not harm SHALLOW crops as they used ornamental plants from, the Walsh studies to verify <br />this, but we grow DEEP rooted crops and as MR. Dearstyne stated, this high salt content may be <br />detrimental to some of the crops that we grow. We also have never given WRITTEN consent to <br />them allowing them to use this bench one material. We have never approved this action.. This <br />was decided at the February meeting in Grand Junction where we were not permitted to attend <br />