2013-02-08_REVISION - C1981008 (3)

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02/08/2013 14:55 FAX Division of Reclamation, Mining, and Safety 1313 Sherman Street Room 215 Denver, Colorado 80203 February 7, 2013 Dear Sirs: 1 am writing to request an informal hearing regarding Western Fuels - Colorado application for a permit renewal and a permit revision number 7. First, I would like to inform you that I am objecting to both the permit renewal as well as the permit revision_ I have hunted on the Sunshine place, Morgans property for over 20 years. 1 have also bought hay from JoEllen for over 20 years and still do. 1 go there every year. I have watched the mining at hunting season every year. I also have witnessed soils being removed from the Morgan property and I have witnessed these stockpiles of soils for 8 or 9 years now. This is a shame. I work in the oil and gas industry and whenever we complete a job, that land has to be put hack to excellent shape. These fields were always very beautiful alfalfa and corn and oat felds. There were elk and deer all over. I got my first elk right oft'the Sunshine Corner where the Morgan lady lived and it was right out in the middle of an alfalfa field. You can't find any better hay in the country than what the Morgans put up. I have come and loaded hundreds of hales and hauled them to St. George Utah selling the bales for 3 times as much as what they get in their area. I use many bales every year, myself. This' is the best hay 1 have ever seen or fed and a very reasonable price. I picked fruit right out of the little orchard in the front and the flowers, lilacs, snowballs, and others ,fascinated my wife, We have always wanted to buy a place in that area and make it just like that farm. Sincerely, Art Hutto 281 Holly Lane Grand Junction, Colorado 81503 Z1 001 That was all prime farmland. I never seen any better anywhere up there in that area. Sometimes we would come up and watch them cut and bale while we were doing some scouting. The hay was just fantastic. In the permit revision, it also mentions a reference area. There are no fields in that area equal to what they had. So, a reference area also is wrung. I do not understand how the law is allowing this. I assume that we are governed by the same type of regulations that should be governing that coal mine. Ifso, then these people have been done very wrong. 1 personally would not renew a permit that allows for these farmers to he treated as the Morgans have been treated. Something else I have learned from my business, once the mining begins, then that property must be put back as good as it was before we ever set up our gas or oil wells. This is all documented before we even begin drilling and when we leave that location, I guarantee you it is fixed and seeded and put back like it was. There should be no di here. That farm was one of the best and should be put back to one of the best. RECEIVED FER 08 2613 DIVISION OF RECLAMATION MINING AND SAFETY