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production because that is what the Morgan family requested. The Morgans <br />have already agreed to these points, and in light of such agreement it is difficult <br />to determine the relevance of much of this comment. WFC will not respond to <br />the personal attacks and inflammatory statements contained in this comment. <br />Comment No. 10: <br />Page 2.04.3-8 First off, NH2 required an ENTIRE NEW PERMIT <br />APPLICATION. This was required by the State since NH 1 and NH2 were not <br />contiguous. Since the new permit was required by the State, the accuracy of <br />this permit should have been required and the correct terminology required <br />according to the Pre-Mine Land use definitions as required in 1.04. No add <br />on, no changing the meaning, just the facts. <br />WFC Response: <br />WFC cannot determine what, if any, relevance this comment has to PR 06. <br />Comment No. 11: <br />Page 2.04 3-8 Lies! "There are other crop areas in the vicinity for silage corn, <br />but none in the permit area. Every field that we own on this place has been <br />planted in corn at one time or another during rotation. And has not only <br />been used for silage corn, but we have been up many tons of grain in grain <br />bins. Alfalfa kills alfalfa so overseeding is not possible. So when production <br />falls off, we plow up, plant in corn, oats, wheat, etc and then after as year or <br />two, go back to the alfalfa. <br />On San Miguel Powers Property, when we had it, we also planted corn and <br />wheat. We are the only ones in this area that raise Straight Alfalfa. Most of <br />the farmers had a grass or grass/ alfalfa, but most all was harvested. <br />"We believe that one area of former irrigated hayland should be classified as <br />irrigated cropland:" Another very stupid statement. All of the Pre-mine use of <br />the Morgan properties was irrigated cropland. When Lance Wade signed the <br />lease in 1998 he put "all of the property will be returned to farmable, row <br />crop condition, alfalfa." This is his words. We had no pasture or just <br />haylands as they say. "One area" All of the fields on the Morgan property <br />being mined were historically irrigated and cropped as per letter attached <br />form Jim Boyd, NRCS. <br />The fields East approximately 50 acres part of the Sunshine place was <br />producing 700 ton of corn and had just been put in AV 120 alfalfa prior to the <br />acquisition of the property. <br />The fields West had also been planted in corn and wheat and prior to them <br />mining Morgans property in 1999/2000, were returned to alfalfa. Weimers <br />felt that was one of the best corn fields they had ever seen in the state.