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NRCS "Prime Farmland" - Colorado Important Farmland Inventory pH error; verification of 1996 <br />• determination <br />United States Department of Agriculture <br />Mm <br />Natural Resourceis Oonswvattrrfl ServtCe co @ � Jsda 90V <br />jFTn Bovd Resoure Conservaluon*t P M boyrj <br />970, 32 x 7 32+5 -10HCE <br />P 0 So- 2� 970 4247 •FAX <br />t4orwood, CO $I A23 <br />%larch 4, 21t1 t1 <br />Divismon ot'Keetarnation, Nlining and Safety <br />Department of Natural Resources <br />1 01 South 3` `street, Suite 301 <br />(irand Junction, CO 81501 <br />[)car concerned Parties <br />Accompanving this letter ate documents related to "Prime Farmland delerrinnation fi „,tr land <br />w ithin I I IV N vw tim I /m n -% I nc, WC%LCI Fuels-Coloradc . mine h ermit area In particular, would <br />I ike to addte&s a letter written March 2-), 19% h4 former NRCS RCSOUIVC ('01IS&VVationiSt Mr <br />Dean Stindt In the letter submitted to. Western Fuels-Colorado, W Stindt made a negative <br />deterrilinatimi regarding the presence ot'Prime iarmland on ( Bros property planned fief <br />future coal rninint; tic \ka-s assisted by soil scientist 10ir Jim Irvine. Intermountain Resource <br />• inventories Inc.- who was hired b% lNel'A Horizon Nfille to complete all Order I Soil Survney for <br />the nine PCI Mil area <br />W Stindi stated in panq two of his letter that 'litigated soik with bedrock ckrthirl 40 Inches <br />I I I onsidocd is having 11 11 <br />A the stirlace and so I hor'z.ons that hate a pit h ig her than ' t are ate c <br />property, since both of these criteiia were met, the solk were considel`CU not PlillIC Farnfland by <br />Mr Stindt in III letter <br />%1r Stindt and \Vli <br />Conseivation SCrVICe dOCUrnent in circulation at that time titled "Colorado Important Farnfland <br />I oventoi y. " A htch indeed established the above enterla I'm prime farmland d"Is on pksae <br />ol document U'nfoitunatel}, the pI I limit of” -4 was an crrcq in the docurrient and should <br />ha-.-t- read 8 -4 Instead This mistake In the C 010radO 1111D011aIll Fat ofland Inventory document is <br />addressed more flully in a letter written bv Dave DearslYne, NRCS Soil Scientist. dated February <br />11. 2008, and enclosed <br />RegardIcs. ofthe mistake described above, w hich has since been corrected the soil designation <br />of scat Prime Farmland fill the 0 Beers piopvrty *,Nas most likely correct since the soils were <br />Its than 40 Inches in depth, and thviVfk)ie may not have met the water holditim capacltv criteria <br />established for Prime Farmland desienation it is if the soil pi I limit of -4, an error, <br />referred to in the Colorado Important FaTmIand Inventiwv and referenced in the (Tarye Bros <br />determination, Nvas used in -subsequem determinations cl�Prlmc Faimiand for othvi properile-S <br />mined within the Ne%e I Fortran Mine permit area. <br />�,411o.0"Pweh the <br />sutgww MthOW li cv, W-We iamU A yw»I (4",t1 sty :md Efrwto�mt,, <br />Friday, March 05, 2010-max <br />