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September 30, 2011 <br />Mr. Berry <br />X Greg Lewicki And Associates, PLLC <br />11541 Warrington Court Phone: (303) 346 -5196 Fax (303 )-346 -6934 <br />Parker, CO USA 80138 E -Mail: info @lewicki.biz <br />David A. Berry <br />Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining, and Safety <br />1313 Sherman Street, Room 215 <br />Denver, CO 80203 <br />RE: New Horizon Mine - Permit C- 1981 -008 - Office of Surface Mining Evaluation of PR -06 <br />The Division of Reclamation Mining, and Safety required in a letter dated August 8, 2011 that <br />Western Fuels - Colorado, the operator and permit holder of the New Horizon Mine respond to <br />several technical items determined by the Office of Surface Mining in their review of Permit <br />Revision 06. In accordance with this demand, WFC has developed a sampling plan for the soil <br />stockpiles present on the Morgan property, the undisturbed prime farmland soils on the Morgan <br />property, and the soil material already redistributed on the eastern end of the Morgan property. <br />This sampling plan is attached as a technical revision (TR -61) to the permit. <br />Technical Revision 61 consists of the following modifications to the permit: <br />1. Section 2.0.4.9 - Addition of subsection 18.0 <br />2. Attachment 2.04.9 -10 - New attachment containing sampling and analysis plan (SAP) <br />3. Map 2.04.9 -3 - New map showing sampling locations on Morgan property <br />TR -61 only addresses the OSM requirements for further data regarding the quality of material <br />within the stockpiles on the Morgan property, the undisturbed prime farmland soils on the <br />Morgan property, and the redistributed Bench Substitute Subsoil and Mixed Topsoil on the <br />eastern end of the Morgan property. This data will be used to revise the topsoil redistribution <br />plan on the Morgan property, if necessary. Additional items such as the yield standard for the <br />Morgan property, and other concerns in the OSM review documents, are not addressed here, but <br />will be in future permit revisions. <br />CC: Ross Gubka, Lance Wade - WFC <br />Jo Ellen Turner <br />Aaron DeJoic - KeyAG <br />Robert Dunker - University of Illinois <br />ECEW ED <br />SEP <br />Division of Reclamation, <br />Mining and Safety <br />Sincerely, <br />Greg Lewicki, PE <br />Greg Lewicki and Associates <br />