Alabama Administrative Code › Title 880 - ALABAMA SURFACE MINING COMMISSION › Chapter 880-X-8F - SURFACE COAL MINING AND RECLAMATION OPERATIONS PERMITS AND COAL EXPLORATION SURFACE MINING PERMIT APPLICATIONS - REQUIREMENTS FOR RECLAMATION AND OPERATION PLAN › Section 880-X-8F-.08 - Operation Plan: Permit Map(s)

Current through Register Vol. 42, No. 9, June 28, 2024
(1) The application shall include a permit map(s) showing --
(a) All boundaries of lands and names of present owners of record of those lands, both surface and subsurface (coal), within or abutting the permit area;
(b) The boundaries of land within the proposed permit area upon which the applicant has the legal right to enter and begin surface mining activities;
(c) The boundaries of all areas proposed to be affected, with subareas of the permit area for which it is anticipated that individual bonds will be obtained;
(d) The location of all buildings within 1,000 feet of the proposed permit area, with identification of the current use of the buildings;
(e) The location of surface and subsurface man-made features within, passing through, or passing over the proposed permit area and adjacent areas, including, but not limited to, major electric transmission lines, pipelines, agricultural drainage tile fields, and the location by name, where known, of all active roads and railroads, right-of-ways, lakes, ponds, springs, and streams;
(f) Each public road located in or within 100 feet of the proposed permit area;
(g) The boundaries of any public park and locations of any cultural or historical resources listed on or eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places and known significant archaeological sites within the permit area or adjacent areas;
(h) Each public or private cemetery, Indian burial ground, or other area where human bodies are interred, that is located in or within 100 feet of the proposed permit area;
(i) Any land within the proposed permit area and adjacent area which is within the boundaries of any units of the State or National Park System, the National Wildlife Refuge System, the National Wilderness Preservation System, National Recreation areas designated by Act of Congress, the National System of Trails or the Wild and Scenic Rivers System, including study rivers designated under Section 5(a) of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act; and
(j) Location of any areas in or adjacent to the proposed permit area which are designated as unsuitable for surface mining activities or have a valid petition pending for such designation;
(k) Location and extent of any threatened or endangered species and associated critical habitat located in or adjacent to the proposed permit area;
(l) Location and extent of existing or previously surface mined areas within the proposed permit area;
(m) Location and extent of known workings of active, inactive, or abandoned underground mines, including mine openings to the surface within the proposed permit area and adjacent areas;
(n) Location and extent of constructed or natural drains, irrigation ditches and any discharges to any surface body of water within the proposed permit area and adjacent areas; and
(o) Location and dimension or extent of areas of existing and proposed spoil, waste and non-coal waste disposal, dams, embankments, settling ponds, and other impoundments, and water treatment and air pollution control facilities, haul roads, and stockpile areas within the proposed permit area;
(p) Sufficient slope measurement to adequately represent the existing land surface configuration of the proposed permit area, measured and recorded according to the following:
1. Each measurement shall consist of an angle of inclination along the prevailing slope extending 100 linear feet above and below or beyond the coal outcrop of the area to be disturbed or, where this is impractical, at locations specified by the Regulatory Authority.
2. Where the area has been previously mined, the measurements shall extend at least 100 feet beyond the limits of mining disturbances, or any other distance determined by the Regulatory Authority to be representative of the premining configuration of the land.
3. Slope measurements shall take into account natural variations in slope, to provide accurate representation of the range of natural slopes and reflect geomorphic differences of the area to be disturbed.