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Division of Reclamation, Mining, and Safety 1313 Sherman Street Room 215 Denver, Colorado 80203 RE: Permit Revision No. 7 of New Horizon Permit Number C-81 -008 This is a petition to the objection of Permit Revision Number 7. The Morgan property has always been one of the nicer and most productive farms in this area. The Morgan farm has always been historically irrigated and cropped and has been considered as prime farmland. Permit Revision number 6 `Board Ordered" Western Fuels to return all of the Morgan property to prime farmland standards. NRCS has unanimously stated that all of the Morgan property that was mined was Prime Farmland. The Court has entered a Judgement against Western Fuels for violations of the Rules and Regulations governing prime farmland and for Breach of the lease. The Morgan property needs to be restored to the prime farmland standards that it had prior to mining and reclaimed according to prime farmland rules and regulations. No portion of the Morgan property should be allowed to be changed from the prime farmland determination that has already been approved. Rules and regulations governing this are 2.04.12, a prime farmland Investigation that had to be completed prior to mining 2.06 The National soils survey handbook had to be used to make that determination and NRCS had to be contacted. 1.04 The Morgan property was always historically irrigated and cropped, not pasturelands since 1987. 4.25 The soils had to be segregated and protected until redistribution and were not. The operations for prime farmland are very specific and these decisions had to all be agreed upon and approved prior to any mining activities. The mining on the Morgan property is completed and final backfilling is being done and to change their prime farmland determination for any portion of that property after the fact is inappropriate and is being objected to. The following people have ali read this and this is a formal objection to any changes that Pr -07 presents that changes any of the Morgan property to less than the prime farmland that they had prior to mining :D. (P. 14 1 4 - tG ry c , /`= -Y? ., .._..._.._.../-_ 3-/ z- ' 24 (; ' l - -� .? vJ 2 �s,4v Lwi.i!•.cL11.1--11 irY c j L, - , ---- -- - .5 \-\,,,,A,c_, . .:A 6- 4 R- -,;-)_5 i\c_,A,i c ,,,,,,. bx I, k,--.,, (P4 2 c _ p 0 6 4, „. `S � ;/ lit, ,e)� , -+.- 0 A 1 Le. tici.„,---5 f P!2 C� --,t,t,_ e, ,, Zed Z99L 1798 - 0L6 so 30t G iNLJ r ah NQ t oy ant DRRr f a0 • Po 13.x.1 513z 5 . 1)itr re04- Jewnl uelocf �� 1 Pc o