2013-01-23_GENERAL DOCUMENTS - C1981008

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JoEllen Turner 970 - 864 -7682 p.15 TO MININGininl!III11 1!I iiiliiiiinit l tll>!nIiiiliiiiilniifiiiiiiii It amazes me that the State doesn't have a farmer person in here that can see how ridiculous this revision is!! OSM had better put a stop to all of this or the State. It's pretty obvious that the State doesn't have any intentions of doing their jobs or they would not have allowed such a ridiculous revision that sent all the progress right straight back to 5 years ago. Mr. Berry ordered these things to be worked out and most things had already been done until this revision that degressed to the things that we started with 5 years ago. Mr. Dejoia and lewicki, you need to get your facts straight and forget all this crap you produce because you have a fight now a real fight. We seen some progress over the past 5 years and finally got some of your lies and facts put to real use, but now, you have shown us that you have NO NO intentions of fixing this place and this isn't going to happen and if the State won't do something to fix this, then we will. We want an informal hearing here, taped. And I am requesting a copy of the tape, not a transcript and I also will be taping it as well as othersw We will try and get in touch with the television stations and news media, as well as the Sheep Mountain alliance which is an environmentalist group that fights coal mines and the things they do to people. People with some money that can help us fight this. We had a beautiful effficient, working ranch here and no WFC, State, or government agency is going to take that away from us. I will try and contact all the Board members directly. We have a Board order which the proper procedure that we had to follow was to appeal that if you believed that it was not in compliance. These rules and regulations are written for the Mine not for the landowner, but we followed all the rules and regulations governing surface coal mining and we appealed costing us thousands and thousands of dollars doing THE OUR TO MAKES RE THAT THE STATE OR WESTERN FUELS WAS NOT T OUR JOBS S LS DO THEIR JOBS. This is also a formal complaint to the Office of Surface Mining. The State is not enforcing the rules and regulations and they are not in compliance with what the rules and regulations that state they must be. We are requesting administrative procedures and we are requesting an informal review and this means communicating with the Landowner. Since the civil suit began, DRMS, OSM, and other agencies refuse to communicate with us. We have sent hundreds of objections an are requesting an informal hearing to be held here in Nucla Colorado at a neutral place and convenient time that all these farmers and ranchers may attend. This revision is illegal and these people around here need to know and see what WFC does and what the state allows. They need to see that there is really no rules or regulations protecting them and that these rules and regulations can be changed at will to suit the coal mine. They also need to see how many thousands of dollars that we have spent because the State will not do their jobs. The Board ordered that these things be done and the State will not even carry out proper procedures to make sure they are done. Western Fuels never received any type of punishment for stealing 196,000 cubic yards of our topsoil, they never got punished for not segregating our soil, they never got punished for contamination, they never got punished for anything that will ruin us for the rest of our lives. And all of this was in the jurisdiction of the State. And this pr -07 simply went back to the VERY first Pr -06 and copied it word for ward. Mr. Berry promised us, on tape, that he would try and fix this. He promised on tape that this type of thing WOULD NEVER NEVER 25 'Page