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Permit Sections: <br />2.04.9 Soil Resource Information <br />2.05.4(2) (d) `Topsoil Handling, Stockpiling and Redistribution' <br />2.06.6 `Prime Farmlands' <br />1998 Order 1 Soil Survey <br />Permit Maps: <br />2.04.9 -1 Soil Baseline Map New Horizon 2 Mine <br />2.04.9 -2 Topsoil Balance Map as of February 2008 <br />2.05.4 -4 Postmining Topsoil Replacement New Horizon 2 Study Area <br />2.05.4 -6 Morgan Topsoil Replacement Plan as of June 2010 <br />2.05.4 -9 Topsoil Stockpile Map as of June 2010 <br />Permit attachments: <br />2.04.4.9 -1 Soil Identification Legend <br />2.04.4.9 -2 Soil Classification Legend <br />2.04.4.9 -3 Taxonomic Unit Descriptions <br />2.04.4.9 -4 National Soil Survey Handbook 657.5 <br />2.04.4.9 -5 Important Farmland Inventory NRCS 1982 <br />2.04.4.9 -6 NRCS Prime Farmland Evaluation Letters <br />2.04.4.9 -7 Soil Lab and Field Data Sheets <br />2.04.4.9 -8 Soil Test Location Photos <br />2.04.4.9 -9 Soil Map Unit Descriptions <br />2.05.4(2) (e) -1 NRCS Soil Interpretation Record <br />(1) Citation of applicable State of Colorado rules and regulations: <br />2.04.9 Soil Resource Information <br />2.04.12 Prime Farmland Investigation <br />2.06.6 Prime Farmlands <br />4.05.8 Acid and Toxic Forming Spoil <br />4.06 Topsoil <br />4.25 Operations on Prime Farmland <br />(2) Evaluation of compliance with the requirements of the applicable regulations: <br />Description of the Morgan Property Soils Prior to Mining Disturbance <br />An Order 1 soil survey was conducted in 1998 by Intermountain Resource Inventories Inc. (IRI) <br />to record and document the soils on the New Horizon Mine. This survey was prepared and <br />provided along with submittal of the permit revision application (PR -5) to add the New Horizon <br />Mine to permit C- 008 -81. Table 1 in Attachment A summarizes the soil descriptions taken from <br />2 <br />