2010-11-01_REVISION - C1981008 (2)

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To the Board Members O Division of Reclamation, Mining, and Safety 1313 Sherman Street, Room 215 Denver, Colorado 80203 October 23, 2010 Dear Members of the Board: We are objecting to the approval of PR-06 which greatly affects us and our property. I am blind and cannot see, read, nor write. Although, we have been instructed that we are not allowed to object. After discussions with attorneys, if what they are asking us not to object to violates any laws then the contract is not legal, at least that statement. The Rules and Regulations governing surface coal mining allows any person to object. PR-06 violates rules and regulations that were designed to protect the land and the landowner. Irreparable damages have been done to our property and to us. We cannot accept PR-06 and ask that it be withdrawn and a proper Permit Revision governing our property be made right. We leased our property to Western Fuels and they had the right to ONE mineral, Coal. They bought our coal at what they claimed the going rate was and they were to mine the coal and all of our soils were to be stockpiled or put back on my property. We sold the coal to them, we did not sell. anything else nor did we give them permission to anything else. Our prime soils are a very viable mineral. This mineral is--of COMMERCIAL value and for the approximate amount of 190,000 tons that they stole_ cannot be replaced or substituted without Western Fuels paying for those soils. We are not accepting their solution of stealing more of our soils and moving our prime soil depths of up to 72 inches to other portions of our.roperty to cover up their theft. They are suppose to salvage ALL topsoil and our Barx is a prime soil and cannot be replaced with a substitute. They salvaged it, then stole it. When we asked, them to stop, they refused. Lance Wade the Mine manager stated that this is a' communist state and those who have, give, those who don't, take. We cannot grow corn under their plan and methods of irrigation, This place can never be returned to furrow irrigating as they propose, and we are not going to a more intense.method of irrigating with FLOOD as they propose. We will not accept less than what we had. We have suggested a center pivot which will save them a lot of money in the long run. We cannot grow corn under a sideroll andwe have not flood irrigated this place for 39 years and if you look at the documentation you will see that even in 1960, this was furrowed and gated pipe. This, however, cannot be done under their plan because of the way they put it back, furrow irrigating will no longer work. I am the largest stock holder of the CCC ditch and have been long before they were here. This place was historically irrigated and cropped by me for 59 years and prior to that it was also historically irrigated and cropped. We are not going to accept less than what we have and someone s.gomp to pay for the Bars soils thst were %tote,& fmm this place- It was up to the Division to enforce their Rules and Regulations and WFC needs to pay for those soils removed.