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JoEllen Turner <br />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 />970 - 864 -7682 p.1 <br />RECE <br />JAN 2 8 2 013 <br />Division of Reclamation. <br />Mining & Safety <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. 4.25 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 />-7__. <_7f'2 t ?0 - 7 7 X 2....7 r -d'L --r( --c <br />