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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 C81 -408 <br />970 - 864 -7682 <br />p.7 <br />This is a petition to the objection of Permit RevisionNumber 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 5 The National soils survey handbook <br />Investigation that bad to be completed prior to mining. <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 mininE on the Morgan property is completed and final <br />backf lling 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 />£/W- / i7 / '/' / 0 iayee ph V444.0 f ' 0 7 <br />Aln Po . )o 1 MOMN3Cf Ca itexac tor -k <br />I <br />Mt <br />1 <br />u <br />0 l oX $$? 416 MxaSE <br />.5 <br />Sr <br />/IC se <br />wPRo <br />d /I <br />75 A.)6( 04g2_5ZY2" <br />l J� <br />