2013-01-23_GENERAL DOCUMENTS - C1981008

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970 - 864 -7682 p.1 11 1 Page JoEllen Turner RECEIVED JAN 232013 Division of Reclamation, Mining & Safety ground information as this was illegal.. Written by Mr. Kamper. All of this proof will be submitted with pictures in hard form. Mr. Lewicki keeps stating "AMENDMENT' area. Please show me this terminology in the rules and regulations and explain to us what an Amendment area is comprised of. Please indicate to me and show me a copy of the ACT or of the rules and regulations that allow for "RE- MAPPING" or better yet, "IMPROVED RE- MAPPING" of prime farmland for which the soil scientist were NEVER HERE to test the original soils, for which we objected to but allowed for only DATA gathering purposes as what we were told and WRITTEN to and please show me in the rules and regulations where a prime farmland determination can be made 10 YEARS after the beginning of mining and please show me where the Rules and Regulations allows for an independent soil scientist to change an NRCS prime farmland determination. I would like a copy of all of these rules and regulations and the portion of the Act which allows that as soon as possible. I am again requesting an informal hearing to be held here in Nucla, Colorado so these farmers can understand what has happened and what WFC is trying to do. They have been told continuously that we are trying to shut the mine down instead of the truth which we want our property put back as good as or better than it was to the prime farmland status that we had prior to mining. We should not be PUNISHED for the failure of WFC doing their job and if the rules and regulations are not being enforced as they READ, then these large farms and ranchers around here need to know. As you are very well aware of, WFC MINES private grounds because they don't want to deal with the laws governing federal lands and BLM and WITHOUT these FARMERS, there would be NO coal mine. Mr. Morgan leased his property to WFC to HELP this community and to allow for all people of this community to enjoy cheaper energy which coal provides as MR. Morgan Testified to over and over. At the time he leased his property, he had approximately $900,000 dollars in bank which was also presented in discovery to the court and MONEY was not the reason for the lease. This was the BEST part of our property of which was the easiest to mine. We are GUARANTEED by the ACT that the landowner and the landowner rights will be PROTECTED to the fullest extent of the law. I am also filing another formal complaint to OSM. This permit revision should have NEVER been allowed. We have not even been heard in court of our appeal to bring PR -06 into compliance with the prime farmland Board Decision that guaranteed our property to be restored to prime farmland. Our soils were Barx 2E soils some very very deep soils. The equipment used by Jim Irvine went down only 72 inches and this was in frozen ground and still was obtainable and requested that this be performed in fozen times is not our faults. Because WFC did not do their jobs and preserve and protect these soils from contamination such as the "PIT WATER" which even WFC documents is not fit for domestic, livestock, irrigation, uses and then USES this "PIT WATER" to even HYDRO -SEED the stockpiles with temporary seedings as well as constant 30 truck loads a day for dust control.. If I have to, I will get written statements from WATER truck drivers as well as Williams which 1 already have, that this pit water was used and approximately 30 trucks per day. These will be people that are not bought and paid for by WFC. If Greg Lewicki and Associates had actually compiled REAL information from the Jim Irvine soil survey, they would have seen for themselves that approximately 150 - 200,000 cubic yards of prime soils were removed from this property as did NRCS and OSM and