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Division ofReclamation,Mining, and Safety <br />1313 Sherman Street Room 215 <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />February 7.2013 <br />JoEllen Turner <br />970 - 864 -7682 p.3 <br />Dear Sirs: I am writing to request an informal hearing regarding Western Fuels - Colorado application for a permit <br />renewal and a permit revision number 7. <br />First, I would like to inform you that I am objecting to both the permit renewal as well as the permit revision. I have <br />hunted on the Sunshine place, Morgans property for over 20 years. I have also bought hay from JoEllen for over 20 <br />years and still do. I go there every year. I have watched the mining at hunting season every year. 1 also have witnessed <br />soils being removed from the Morgan property and I have witnessed these stockpiles of soils for 8 or 9 years now. This <br />is a shame. <br />I work in the oil and gas industry and whenever we complete ajob, that land has to be put back to excellent shape. <br />These fields were always very beautiful alfalfa and corn and oat fields. There were elk and deer all over. Igot my first <br />elk right off the Sunshine Corner where the Morgan lady lived and it was right out in the middle of an alfalfa field. You <br />can't find any better hay in the country than what the Morgans put up. I have come and loaded hundreds of bales and <br />hauled them to Si. George Utah selling the bales for 3 times as much as what they get in their area. I use many bales <br />every year, myself This is the best hay I have ever seen or fed and a very reasonable price. <br />I picked fruit right out of the little orchard in the front and the flowers, lilacs, snowballs, and others fascinated my wife. <br />We have always wanted to buy a place in that area and make it just like that ,farm. <br />That was all prime farmland. I never seen any better anywhere up there in that area. Sometimes we would come up and <br />watch them cut and bale while we were doing some scouting. The hay was just fantastic. In the permit revision, it also <br />mentions a reference area. There are no fields in that area equal to what they had. So, a reference area also is wrong. 1 <br />do not understand how the law is allowing this. I assume that we are governed by the same type of regulations that <br />should be governing that coal mine. If so, then these people have been done very wrong. I personally would not renew a <br />permit that allows for these farmers to be treated as the Morgans have been treated. Something else I have learned <br />from my business, once the mining begins, then that property must be put back as good as it was before we ever set up <br />our gas or oil wells. This is all documented before we even begin drilling and when we leave that location. I guarantee <br />you it is fixed and seeded and put back like it was. There should be no difference here. That farm was one of the best <br />and should be put back to one of the best. <br />Sincerely, <br />Art Hutto <br />281 Holly Lane <br />Grand Junction, Colorado 81503 <br />