SECTION 460:20-31-16. Operation plan: maps and plans

  Each application shall contain maps and plans as follows:

(1)   The maps, plans, and cross sections shall show the underground mining activities to be conducted, the lands to be affected throughout the operation, and any change in a facility or feature to be caused by the proposed operations, if the facility or feature was shown under Sections 460:20-29-10 through 460:20-29-11 of this Chapter.

(2)   The following shall be shown for the proposed permit area:

(A)   Buildings, utility corridors, and facilities to be used;

(B)   The area of land to be affected within the proposed permit area, according to the sequence of mining and reclamation;

(C)   Each area of land for which a performance bond or other equivalent guarantee will be posted under Subchapter 37 of this Chapter;

(D)   Each coal storage, cleaning, and loading area;

(E)   Each topsoil, spoil, coal preparation waste, underground development waste, and noncoal waste storage area;

(F)   Each water diversion, collection, conveyance, treatment, storage and discharge facility to be used;

(G)   Each source of waste and each waste disposal facility relating to coal processing or pollution control;

(H)   Each facility to be used to protect and enhance fish and wildlife related environmental values;

(I)   Each explosives storage and handling facility;

(J)   Location of each sedimentation pond, permanent water impoundment, coal processing waste bank, and coal processing water dam and embankment, in accordance with Section 460:20-31-9 of this Chapter and disposal areas for underground development waste and excess spoil, in accordance with Section 460:20-31-12 of this Chapter;

(K)   Each profile, at cross sections specified by the Department, of the anticipated final surface configuration to be achieved for the affected areas;

(L)   Location of each water and subsidence monitoring point; and

(M)   Location of each facility that will remain on the proposed permit area as a permanent feature, after the completion of underground mining activities.

(3)   Except as provided in Sections 460:20-31-9(a)(2), 460:20-31-9(a)(3), 460:20-31-12, 460:20-45-24(b), 460:20-45-26(c), 460:20-45-27(c) and 460:20-45-29(c) of this Chapter, cross sections, maps, and plans required under (2)(D), (E), (F), (J), and (K) of this Section shall be prepared by, or under the direction of, and certified by a qualified, registered, professional engineer, a professional geologist, or a qualified, registered, professional land surveyor, with assistance from experts in related fields such as landscape architecture.

[Source: Amended at 12 Ok Reg 3592, eff 10-12-95; Amended at 16 Ok Reg 3526, eff 9-13-99]