Code of Maryland Regulations › Title 26 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT › Part 4 - SUBTITLES 19-30 › Subtitle 20 - SURFACE COAL MINING AND RECLAMATION UNDER FEDERALLY APPROVED PROGRAM › Chapter 26.20.02 - Permit Applications - General Requirements › Section 26.20.02.11 - Additional Permit Application Information

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 14, July 12, 2024
In addition to the information required by Regulation .10
					 of this chapter, the permit application shall include maps, cross sections, and
					 plans prepared by or under the direction of, and certified by, a qualified
					 registered professional engineer or professional geologist, with assistance
					 from people in related fields such as land surveying and landscape
					 architecture, showing:
A. Elevations
				  and locations of test borings and core samplings;
B. Locations of monitoring stations used to
				  gather data for water quality and quantity, fish and wildlife, and air quality,
				  if required, in preparation of the application;
C. Nature, depth, and thickness of the coal
				  seams to be mined, any coal or rider seams above the seam to be mined, each
				  stratum of the overburden, and the stratum immediately below the lowest coal
				  seam to be mined;
D. All coal crop
				  lines and the strike and dip of the coal to be mined within the proposed permit
				  area;
E. Location and extent of
				  known workings of active, inactive, or abandoned underground mines, including
				  mine openings to the surface within the proposed permit and adjacent
				  areas;
F. Location and extent of
				  subsurface water, if encountered, within the proposed permit and adjacent
				  areas;
G. Location of surface water
				  bodies such as streams, creeks, lakes, ponds, springs, constructed or natural
				  drains, and irrigation ditches within the proposed permit and adjacent
				  areas;
H. The drainage pattern on
				  and away from the land affected including the total drainage area encompassing
				  the operation, the component drainage areas to be used in pond design, the
				  directional flow of water, the location of constructed and natural drainways
				  used for drainage, constructed ponds, dams, sediment traps, keyways, and
				  culverts;
I. Location and extent of
				  existing or previously surface-mined areas within the proposed permit
				  area;
J. Location and dimensions of
				  existing areas of spoil, waste, coal development waste, and non-coal waste
				  disposal, dams, embankments, other impoundments, and water treatment and air
				  pollution control facilities within the proposed permit area;
K. Location, and depth if available, of all
				  active, plugged, and abandoned gas, oil, and water wells and springs within
				  1,000 feet of the proposed permit area, including the names and addresses of
				  the owners of all water wells and springs;
L. Slope measurements shall be made every 200
				  feet along the contour, beginning with the proposed initial point of mining and
				  including the proposed termination point of mining, measured and recorded
				  according to the following:
(1) Each
				  measurement shall consist of an angle of inclination along the prevailing
				  slope, perpendicular to the contour, 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 Bureau,
(2) If 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 Bureau to be
				  representative of the pre-mining 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.