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Prime Farmland - Negative Determination for PR-04 acreage S of BB Road, immediately E of <br />2700 Road <br />UNITED IliTATES 10iTUFAL <br />DEPARTMENT OF kk'. '17.`' <br />AGRICULTURE CONSERVATION <br />S I <br />1."RV ICE <br />Todd LeFovre <br />Western Fuels <br />box 628 <br />NuCla. CO 814:34 <br />Todd: <br />102 Far Place <br />Suite 104 <br />Montrose, CO 81401 <br />(9701 . <br />Marcy, 29 1996 <br />On Fet)rtiary 16, 1, p,k­ with you and Jim Irvine at a <br />site owned by Garvey Bro.w­ ai',I: planned for future coal mining. <br />Jim was in thvi process -,, marring soils at this site and had two <br />k;otl PILS open ior At both pit locat.ions, the soil <br />was moderately dc-ep ib*_-crock withir. 40 inches of the surface). <br />We field tested soil pH .it line eat t:,e locations and determined it <br />to he greiter than 7.4. jl", that ilojd P14 tests for <br />,ill soil horizons in al pil:: !ic hid duo in this area were <br />greater than '!.4 I uxiuer!7tand that all lab test <br />rosult s ofif irin t lie f cold rest 1 1, <br />A•coidina to 0 Natt. Re-niirces Conservation Service <br />criteria for (jetermining prime faiiiiiands in Colorado, "irrigated <br />so.jIs with becirock with4n 4ry of the surface and soil <br />horizons that have a pit hi than - 1.4 are considered as having <br />high cc)nductivi ty and th�t . L 3-re arp not prune ". Based on my <br />ob at thew: sites, this sea better firs the mapping <br />unit description for Piciares. loam titan Harx tine sandy loam. <br />Proqrvsso loam does not. even quality as potentially prime. <br />Plea;if- let niv know if I con bi.- e tuther ds.:istance. <br />SI ncere L Y <br />eu <br />I I nd t <br />Conlii:rvdt lon1st <br />Wednesday, March 03,2010.max <br />Attachment 2.04.9-6-4 <br />