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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 />This is a petition to the objection of Permit Revision 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 irrivate.d and i.-. nrirl brii idtr..d prirne fanni'aati. <br />Permit Revision number 6 "Board Ordered" 'West= 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 FfIrmlmui The C47',1.1:_rt has entual a Sadii.:Triczt agaiasi. Wesitm r uei s ror <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 />raining and reclaimed rcling to rime far,r md r1 and Teg 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 />bw1c611ing 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 />e ectic tAA <br />ato <br />50 &CZ <br />JoEllen Turner <br />.1\;Dtg. 114 D aYl <br />- ) ‘ 'y <br />970-864-7682 p.4 <br />e r1 7 -147 - r ri4V1.-01Z r5S e 5- 762 SAYF E CO 12 9 <br />PteiSe Lef ftV"'" <br />jii 1/' SA 3 p cAls".01 VozAr C:o Piz- 07 <br />Please 64611-0 <br />a 0 . <br />V\\-kMkk <br />