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U.S. Department of the Interior <br />Office of Surface Mining <br />Citizen Complaints <br />Citizen Complaint Referal Type Written State CO <br />Citizen Complaint Number CC11-140-001 Date Complaint Received 01/06/2011 <br />Complainant OELLEN TURNER Did citizen request confidentiality? <br /> Nature of Complaint <br /> CITIZEN COMPLAINT ALLEGES THAT PRIME FARMLAND (PFL) SOIL WAS REMOVED IN <br /> THE RAIN AND SNOW. <br /> <br /> Performance Standard Category <br /> (Check all that apply) <br />? A. Administrative Acknowledgement Letter 01/12/2011 <br />? B. Hydrologic Balance <br />® C. Topsoil & Subsoil <br /> <br />C <br />FO Decision Letter to Citizen <br />? D. Backfilling & Grading Citizen Informal Review Request <br />? E. Excess Spoil Disposal Informal Review Date <br />? F. Coal Mine Waste <br />? G. Use of Explosive Result of Informal Review <br />? H. Subsidence Control Plan <br />? I. Roads Citizen Notified of Review Results <br />? J. Signs & Markers <br />? K. Distance Prohibitions <br />? L. Revegation <br />? M. Postmining Land Use <br />Comments: <br />WE HAVE RECEIVED A CITIZEN COMPLAINT ALLEGING THAT PRIME FARMLAND (PFL) SOIL WAS REMOVED IN <br />THE RAIN AND SNOW. WE INTERPRET THIS COMPLAINT AS ALLEGING TOPSOIL SALVAGE OPERATIONS WERE <br />CONDUCTED ON PFL DURING PERIODS OF EXCESSIVE PRECIPITATION AND THAT THE SOIL WAS SATURATED. <br />IF THE SOIL WAS SATURATED, HANDLING IT COULD HAVE DAMAGED ITS PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL <br />PROPERTIES AND OPERATIONS WOULD NOT HAVE MINIMIZED EROSION, CONTAMINATION AND / OR <br />COMPACTION.