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Division of Reclamation, Mining, and Safety <br />Room 215, Centennial Building <br />1313 Sherman Street <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />May 14, 2012 <br />Re: New Horizon North Mine 0.2010 -089 <br />k a'� <br />MAY 242012 <br />Division of Reclamation <br />Mining & Safety ' <br />To Whom It May Concern; X am submitting an objection to the approval of this permit. I have <br />lived around the Nucla area most of my life and have hunted there all of my life. I am in favor of <br />coal powered power plants and have nothing against coal mining. <br />What has brought me to write this letter is, I would someday like to retire back in Nucla. Rut, I <br />am very upset with the way the country is looking as a result of the coal mining in that area. Years <br />ago when Peabody coal was there, they left a mess and very beautiful farms were turned into rock <br />and drylands. Now, 1 have returned every year and have seen some of the prettiest farms in the <br />country left with stockpiles of soils year after year. I work in the oil and gas industry and deal with <br />the returning of these areas once the minerals have been retrieved. It is very upsetting to see what <br />is happening in Nucla. All of these farms should have already been in full production and given <br />back to the landowners. It must be done in a timely manner and I am not seeing that. These <br />farms were beautiful trees, orchards, and numerous alfalfa fields. All of these areas were <br />completely irrigated and all 1 am seeing is soils and rocks. <br />I do not feel that a new permit should be issued to a mining company that has taken years to put <br />these beautiful farms back into production. This is why I was retiring in Nucla. I have been trying <br />to buy a small farm there and live my days out there comfortably. But, the scenery has diminished <br />tremendously from the coal mining industry. <br />Why haven't the soils been returned? The place that they are working on presently was one of the <br />prettiest places in the valley and some of the most hay ever produced came from that farm. Now it <br />is and has been just piles of dirt, eye sores, for more than 8 of the last years I have been here. I <br />have watched them push nice red dirt off in the pit in years past and now the same thing, whyP <br />Where did the huge mountain come from on the edge of the coal mine? This was never there. A <br />school teacher lived up on top and now there is a mountain that has taken away some ofthe most <br />beautiful views. <br />[ do not feel that a new permit should be issued to a coal mine that shows so little care and <br />concern and respect for the landowners and their lives. Thank you for listening. <br />Art Hutto <br />281 Holly Lane <br />Grand Junction, Colorado 81503 <br />