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JoEllen Turner 970 - 864 -7682 p.12 Colorado Important Farmland where ROSS GUBKA presented that there was an error you would have seen on the prior page that it is documented correctly and you would have also seen that this ERROR WAS FOR soils 40 inches and less to bedrock, but being a soil scientist, you must have overlooked that. Mr. DeJoia, you should have READ your report before you presented it because WFC gave you the facts and you are only re- writing what you were told, you obviously became senile at one point. You document "pre investigation inspections" were conducted on the New Horizon at each mine expansion." You should have stuck to trying to be an expert and a soil scientist because as to repeating facts , you are back to your egotistical nursery stage. You Quote "AS part of this permit revision, the additional areas were investigated for prime farmland by Dean Stindt of the local NRCS office. His negative prime farmland determination was based on the ph of potential prime soils above 7.4 since this was the standard in the USDA documentation at that time. It has since been determined that this ph limit was a typo, and should be 8.4 Mr. Stindts letter can be found in Attachment 2.04.9 -6" which isn't there. Amazing Mr. Dejoia, you have no clue at all and you have no idea what you are talking about. First off, the only letter Dean Stindt had was the 1992 letter of which he states that Barx soils is a prime farmland soil but because of the lack of a dependable irrigation supply on a very "site specific" area on the Nucla East Mine near the office he disqualified it because the water came from Calamity draw and was not CCC Ditch water and could not be considered a good quality and therefore could not be considered prime. He wrote a letter to Michael and to the State saying that his prime farmland determination as site specific and had nothing to do with the Morgan property and any use of this letter was inappropriate. YOUR ATTACHMENT LETTER PROVING THIS IS NOT EVEN IN THIS NOTEBOOK NOR DOES IT EXIST. Your Pr -07 does not allow for us to grow corn. Very much against the rules and regulations. The land must be able to be used for the uses in which it had prior to mining, you need to read the rules, you are clueless. The Act and rules are very specific when it come to prime farmland. You can't take away the abilities we had prior to mining. Siderolls do not allow !for us to grow corn and we can never furrow irrigate again. The soil preparation is also different. For prime farmland, we level and rock pick until it is perfect and we are not going to half ass it for your sake of a revision. The ground is also fertilized to induce first cutting and to give the plants all we can to start. And by the way, we are the farmers and since you have your terminology and the way we do farm here, I don't think we need book by book descriptions of something you know nothing about here. First off, we don't do 24 hour sets, you drown alfalfa, but of course, with your extensive background in farming, you already know that. We do 12 hour sets 7 days a week and if there is any drowning done on new soils, then that accommodated for. Don't tell us how to irrigate or farm, you are not qualified in that position or area and that is not something that is spelled out in a permit. Irrigation is an art and a science and uses the science of trial and error and we don't need your expertise in how this should be done because you DON "T KNOW> I worked for Western Fuels for 13 years and I am the one who suggested siderolls and we had ours long before WFC got theirs. So knock it off with the instructions from a beginner who know nothing. And you don't tell us about cleaning the box either. That is a farmer community effort that seeks no advice from you. Where did you get your bale weights? 43 1 Page