Illinois Administrative Code › Title 62 - MINING › Part 300 - SURFACE MINED LAND CONSERVATION AND RECLAMATION ACT › Subpart A - SURFACE MINED LAND CONSERVATION AND RECLAMATION ACT › Section 300.50 - Permit Application Requirements

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
a) General Requirements
Each geographically distinct mining site and refuse disposal
				  area shall require a separate permit application, which shall be accompanied by
				  a United States Geological Survey Topographical Map outlining the acreage to be
				  affected and adequately showing the land surrounding the acreage to be
				  affected. Each application for a permit, and each amendment to an application
				  for a permit, shall be submitted to the Department pursuant to the Act and to
				  this Part and shall contain the following items (subject to waiver by the
				  Director with respect to amendments to applications as provided for in the
				  Act):
1) a statement of the ownership
				of the land and of the ownership of the minerals to be mined;
2) a list of the minerals to be mined; or
				from which the refuse was derived;
3) the character and composition of the
				vegetation and wildlife on the lands to be affected;
4) the current and past uses of the lands to
				be affected;
5) the current
				assessed valuation of the lands to be affected and the assessed valuation shown
				by the 2 quadrennial assessments next preceding the currently effective
				assessment;
6) the nature, depth
				and proposed disposition of the overburden;
7) the estimated depth to which the mineral
				deposit will be mined;
8) the
				technique to be used in surface mining;
9) the location and names of all streams,
				creeks, bodies of water and underground water resources within the land to be
				affected;
10) drainage on and away
				from the lands previous to being affected during mining and after mining and
				reclamation is completed including directional flow of water, natural and
				artificial drainage and waterways, and streams or tributaries receiving the
				discharge;
11) the location of
				buildings and utility lines within lands to be affected;
12) disclosure of the forfeiture or notice of
				forfeiture of any reclamation bond or reclamation security filed by the
				applicant or any operator related to the applicant, with this state or any
				other state, agency of state government or unit of local government. For the
				purposes of this subsection (a)(12), "operator related to the applicant" means:
A) any person, corporation or entity,
				directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by or under common control of
				the individual or corporate applicant, or
B) any officer or director of an entity or
				corporation performing similar functions with respect to another entity,
				corporation or person related to the individual or corporate
				applicant;
13) the
				results of core drillings of consolidated materials in the overburden when
				required by the Department, provided that the Department may not require core
				drillings at the applicant's expense in excess of one core drill for every 25
				acres of affected land;
14) a
				detailed soil map of medium intensity prepared by Soil Conservation Service,
				U.S. Department of Agriculture, which shows the kind and extent of soils to be
				affected by coal surface mining during the forthcoming permit period. This
				requirement may be waived by the Director upon the written request of the
				applicant filed with and at the time of application, which request verifies
				that:
A) such a map is either not in existence
				or not readily available, and
B) to
				have such a map prepared or made available would necessitate an undue delay.
In the event that the requirement for this map is waived, the
				  applicant shall submit a comparable map approved by the Director. Operators of
				  aggregate mines are not required to submit this map;
15) the desired effective date of
				the permit; and
16) the name,
				address, contact person and phone number of any municipality with legal
				jurisdiction over the proposed permit area through an annexation or
				pre-annexation agreement.
AGENCY NOTE: As provided for in the Act, information
				  respecting the minerals to be mined, respecting the estimated depth to which
				  the mineral deposit will be mined, and respecting the results of core drillings
				  if required by the Department shall be held confidential by the Department upon
				  the written request of the operator.