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March 6, 2012 <br />These pictures were all taken during the soil sampling that was done in November and December <br />of 2011. <br />There is no comparison between our 200,000 cubic yards of Barx 2E soils that were stolen off <br />our property and the so- called "suitable" subsoil that they want to use as a substitute. There is no <br />comparison between our undisturbed pits that were dug and the 3 pits on the subsoil that was <br />dug. The rocks are tremendous and there is no way that we are going to accept those. WFC is <br />not going to steal from our West half to fix the Eastern portion that they stole. And we are not <br />going to accept the bench one material as a replacement for our Barx 2 E soils. Bring our soils <br />back that were taken, if not, replace them with Barx 2 E soils, but you are not using ours to do it <br />with. Return our soils to the depth, quality, and quantity that existed in the natural existence <br />prior to mining, to as good as or better than what we had. <br />These pictures are being sent to DRMS, OSM, and NRCS. NRCS was not there for the 3 pits <br />that were dug, yet you seek the advice and comments of NRCS. They have not been given the <br />facts or the rules and regulations concerning our prime farmland, nor were they ever told even for <br />non -prime farmland that the law requires a two lift operation on farmland and that ALL topsoil <br />must be salvaged. You did not tell them that 200,000 cubic yards of our Barx 2E soils was <br />removed from this property. DRMS told us that these people were given all the facts and 1 point <br />blank asked them and they knew nothing of these things. The first law in the rules and <br />regulations is if advice or consultation is sought that ALL parties involved must be told what the <br />rules and regulations state and what their answers must conform to. These people who were <br />present were never given those rules and regulations or what they were really trying to determine <br />in all of these soil samplings. Withholding information is as much of a crime as making false <br />statements. We are never going to allow our west half to be used to fix the damages that Western <br />fuels did to our East half. We are willing to work with Western Fuels., but they need to make <br />compensation or give us back our soils. They are not going to keep stealing from us. And how <br />are they being allowed to keep applying PR -06 in this reclamation process of grading and bench <br />one materials when PR -06 is under appeal at the courts and we have not gone to court yet? <br />Thank you for your time, <br />JoEllen Turner and Michael Morgan <br />�.� *(4 <br />) <br />V <br />MA RE 1 2 2012 ED <br />Division of Reclamation, <br />Mining and Safety <br />