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Urge the Office of Surface Mining (OSM) and the Secretary of the Interior, to deny Peabody Coal's life of mine permit and to stop the expansion of the threat to the Hopi-Navajo sacred water supply.

Dear Mr. Gavette,

Before the Office of Surface Mining approves or denies Peabody's proposed permit revision for Black Mesa mine. I am requesting that you force Peabody to stop pumping from the Navajo Aquifer immediately. Furthermore, Peabody's request to increase water withdrawals from 4,400 acre feet to 5,700 acre feet per year is a travesty of environmental justice.

Peabody should not be pumping water from the Navajo Aquifer at all because it is the only drinking water source for the Hopi and many Navajo and because of negative cultural, religious, and hydrogeological impacts. Vital springs and wells have gone dry for much of the year, if not entirely. Peabody claims that there are no major impacts of the mining operations on the aquifer, but there is substantial evidence to suggest otherwise.

The federal government has a special trust responsibility to Native American tribes. I urge you to live up to this responsibility and deny Peabody's permit request. I look forward to receiving a response from you.

Signed,
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