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gig, <br />1 <br />2 <br />3 <br />4 <br />5 <br />6 <br />7 <br />8 <br />9 <br />10 <br />11 <br />12 <br />13 <br />14 <br />15 <br />16 <br />17 <br />18 <br />19 <br />20 <br />21 <br />22 <br />23 <br />24 <br />25 <br />108 acres, put back as cropland. <br />As soon as that agreement was <br />reached, PR 6 was -- was submitted with those -- <br />with those changes, and that became the postmine <br />land use that was ultimately approved by the <br />division staff. <br />The second issue, which is the <br />topsoil management -- basically the Morgan property <br />was initially disturbed in 2004, and that mining <br />sequence you can even see in the picture. <br />You strip topsoil ahead of you. You <br />take overburden off. You have a pit bottom where <br />you extract the coal, and the topsoil goes in back <br />of you. And this whole things moves as a unit <br />operation basically from east to west on this permit <br />area. <br />And so as that was started, at that <br />time a single -lift stripping was approved. That was <br />the approved method, and that occurred from 2004 <br />until February 2008 when the NRCS re- evaluated the <br />prime farmland status of the Morgan property. <br />And since the majority of the soils <br />on the Morgan property were considered prime, then <br />the NRCS determined that the entire property was <br />prime farmland. <br />