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 26.20.02.02 - General Application Information

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 14, July 12, 2024
A. Information set forth in the application
				  shall be current, presented clearly and concisely, and supported by appropriate
				  references to technical and other written material available to the Bureau. All
				  technical data submitted in the application shall be accompanied by the names
				  of persons or organizations which collected and analyzed the data, the dates of
				  the collection and analyses, and the descriptions of methodology used to
				  collect and analyze the data. Technical analyses shall be planned by or under
				  the direction of a professional qualified in the subject to be analyzed. The
				  application shall state the name, address, and position of officials of each
				  private or academic research organization or governmental agency consulted by
				  the applicant in preparation of the application for information on land uses,
				  soils, geology, vegetation, fish and wildlife, water quantity and quality, air
				  quality, and archeological, cultural, and historic features.
B. Maps submitted with applications shall
				  include all types of information that are set forth on 7.5 minute topographic
				  maps of the U.S. Geological Survey. Maps of the permit area, the mine plan area
				  and within 1/2 mile of the mine plan area shall be at a scale of 500 feet to
				  the inch or larger. Maps of the adjacent areas shall clearly show the lands and
				  waters within those areas and be at a scale of 1 inch equals 2,000 feet or
				  larger.
C. Maps and plans submitted
				  with the applications shall distinguish among each of the phases during which
				  surface coal mining operations were or will be conducted at any place within
				  the mine plan area. At a minimum, distinctions shall be clearly shown among
				  those portions of the mine plan area in which surface coal mining operations
				  occurred before August 3, 1977; after August 3, 1977, and before May 3, 1978;
				  after May 3, 1978, and before the effective date of these regulations; and
				  after the estimated date of issuance of a permit by the Bureau.
D. Each application for a surface coal mining
				  and reclamation permit pursuant to the Regulatory Program shall be accompanied
				  by a $10 fee.
E. Applications for
				  permits shall be submitted on forms provided by the Bureau and shall be
				  verified under oath, by a responsible official of the applicant, that the
				  information contained in the application is true and correct to the best of the
				  official's information and belief.
F. All water quality analyses performed to
				  meet the requirements of this chapter shall be conducted according to the
				  methodology required by 30
				  CFR §
											780.21. Modeling techniques,
				  interpolation, or statistical techniques may be included as part of a permit
				  application, but actual surface and ground water information may be required by
				  the Bureau when these techniques are used.