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Division of Reclamation, Mining, and Safety <br />1313 Sherman Street <br />Room 215 <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />RE: Permit Revision No. 7 of New Horizon Permit Number C -81 -008 <br />1 /1(16:v r`1 C <br />970 '51c <br />/ <br />This is a petition to the objection of Permit Revision Number 7. The Morgan property has <br />always been one of the nicer and most productive farms in this area. The Morgan farm has <br />always been historically irrigated and cropped and has been considered as prime farmland. <br />Permit Revision number 6 `Board Ordered" Western Fuels to return all of the Morgan property <br />to prime farmland standards. NRCS has unanimously stated that all of the Morgan property that <br />was mined was Prime Farmland. The Court has entered a Judgement against Western Fuels for <br />violations of the Rules and Regulations governing prime farmland and for Breach of the lease. <br />The Morgan property needs to be restored to the prime farmland standards that it had prior to <br />mining and reclaimed according to prime farmland rules and regulations. No portion of the <br />Morgan property should be allowed to be changed from the prime farmland determination that <br />has already been approved. Rules and regulations governing this are 2.04.12, a prime farmland <br />Investigation that had to be completed prior to mining. 2.06 The National soils survey handbook <br />had to be used to make that determination and NRCS had to be contacted. 1.04 The Morgan <br />property was always historically irrigated and cropped, not pasturelands since 1987. 425 The <br />soils had to be segregated and protected until redistribution and were not. The operations for <br />prime farmland are very specific and these decisions had to all be agreed upon and approved <br />prior to any mining activities. The mining on the Morgan property is completed and final <br />backfilling is being done and to change their prime farmland determination for any portion of <br />that property after the fact is inappropriate and is being objected to. The following people have <br />all read this and this is a formal objection to any changes that Pr -07 presents that changes any of <br />the Morgan property to less than the prime farmland that they had prior to mining. <br />i/& 7/ gd ri 3 A;7/bM i'u Y/3 , <br />- 2-6 'Cii)rri-t-ki)- atzr IN ( <br />/ F i j 67 <br />.^3./e /. � .:i�1C Z CO F � 1 � 1 Ea S� v.�� �il d �� y <br />t r i c 5 b e' (4.1_1i"-/f15 �l 2I ' ��k ru ; C7 <br />ij c ; � 4 f CO — ( <br />1 <br />Z99L <br />Jeuanl uell3o' <br />