Alaska Administrative Code › Title 11 - Natural Resources › Part 6 - Lands › Chapter 97 - Mining Reclamation › Article 5 - Exemptions for Small Operations › 11 AAC 97.500 - Letter of intent

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The letter of intent required by
				  AS
				  27.19.050(b) must be filed
				  annually on a form provided by the department before the mining begins. The
				  following information must be provided:
(1)
				  the name, address, and telephone number of the miner or other person who will
				  serve as agent to receive any notice that is required by this chapter, and the
				  names, addresses, and telephone numbers of all other owners, operators, or
				  leaseholders of the mining operation;
(2) a list of all properties, mining
				  locations, or leases on which the mining operation is to be conducted,
				  including the state or federal casefile number, and the legal description of
				  the land on which the mining operation is to be conducted, described by legal
				  subdivision, section, quarter-section, township, range and meridian;
(3) a map (United States Geological Survey
				  topographic map or the equivalent) at a scale no smaller than 1:63, 360 (inch
				  to the mile) showing the general vicinity of the mining operation and the
				  specific property to be worked; for a material mining operation adjacent to an
				  airport or a public road, the commissioner will, in his or her discretion,
				  waive this requirement and allow the location to be specified by the name of
				  the airport or by the road milepost;
(4) a diagram of the mining operation and the
				  mined area that shows and states the number of acres to be mined during the
				  year and that shows the location corners or property boundaries and their
				  relationship to the reclamation work, the tailings or spoil disposal areas, and
				  the areas otherwise to be affected by the operation; the information furnished
				  must be reasonably appropriate to the scale and complexity of the
				  mine;
(5) total acreage and volume
				  of material to be mined, and the existing acreage of mined area;
(6) total acreage to be reclaimed in the year
				  covered by the letter of intent;
(7) a description of the reclamation measures
				  that will be taken to comply with
				  AS
				  27.19.020 and
				  11 AAC 97.200 -
				  11 AAC 97.250;
(8) if on private land, a signed and
				  notarized statement by the landowner that the miner has the landowner's
				  permission to operate throughout the period covered by the letter of intent;
				  however, this statement is not required if the miner is the landowner, or if
				  the mining operation is on a prior federal mining location and the private
				  landowner received title subject to that location under sec. 22(c) of PL
				  92-203, the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C.
				  1621(c)); if the private
				  landowner believes that reclamation to the standard set out in
				  AS
				  27.19.020 is not feasible because the
				  landowner intends to use the land after mining for a purpose incompatible with
				  natural revegetation, the landowner is encouraged to provide this information
				  as part of the statement. For the purposes of this paragraph, the landowner is
				  the owner of the estate that includes the mineral or material to be
				  mined.