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RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED <br />June 21, 2010 <br />Mike Morgan <br />P.O. Box 346 <br />Nucla, CO 81424 <br />Western Fuels-Colorado <br />P.O. Box 628 Dear Mike: <br />Nucla, Colorado 81424 <br />This is to put on record our meeting of June 16, 2010, and our telephone <br />Telephone 970/864-2165 conversation of June 17, 2010. On the morning of June 16 1 picked you up <br />Fax 970/864-2168 at your house and we drove and walked around the Morgan property for <br />about an hour. JoEllen was invited but declined in order to spend time with <br />her granddaughter. <br />You expressed several concerns. First is the rocks in the mixed topsoil. <br />Some of the mixed topsoil will take significant work to get the rocks out of it. <br />The mixed topsoil that has been re spread has only been rough spread <br />with a dozer and has not yet been checked for depth or final grade. It will <br />take several iterations with a dozer, grader and land plane before it is <br />finished. As you said, rocks in the A and B topsoil lifts and in the Bench 1 <br />that is being used for suitable subsoil substitute are always an issue and <br />we must keep them to a minimum. <br />Your second concern was the elevation of the backfill along portions of the <br />south permit fence. Part of this is obviously too low and needs to be <br />brought up to grade with the finer, less rocky Bench 1 before topsoil can be <br />replaced. You also showed me an area that you believe needs more <br />topsoil over the 26" pipeline to give a full 30" of cover over the pipeline. <br />Another of your concerns was the shallow depression that is developing in <br />the backfill where Ramp 1 has been backfilled. We will need to continue to <br />monitor this and keep bringing it up to grade with the finer Bench 1 material <br />until it has stabilized so that topsoil can be replaced. <br />You also asked what the field ditches were for on the latest post mine <br />reclamation map. I told you that I thought they were irrigation tail water <br />return ditches (if that is the proper terminology). I can have Ross discuss <br />those with you if you would like. <br />One of my concerns that we discussed is your insistence that all of the <br />Bench 1 material that is stripped from Morgan's remain on Morgan's. I told <br />you that we can do that, but it will mean stockpiling any excess material on <br />Morgan's until it is needed. You indicated that you did not want to have to <br />- I -