Administrative Rules of Montana › Department 17 - ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 17.4 - PROCEDURAL RULES › Subchapter 17.4.7 - Environmental Impact Statement-Fees › Rule 17.4.724 - FEE ASSESSMENT CATEGORIES: STRIP AND UNDERGROUND MINE RECLAMATION

Current through Register Vol. 13, July 5, 2024
The Strip and Underground Mine Reclamation Act categories are
				  as follows:
(1) Prospecting
				categories, include, but are not limited to: access rights; land acquisition;
				application information and preparation; bonding; license fees; resource data
				inventories; professional services and evaluations; equipment; all disturbances
				including road construction and renovations; core drilling; blasting; removal
				and deposition of overburden and other materials; mineral extraction and
				haulage; water and pollution control measures; and all other prospecting
				activities.
(2) Costs associated
				with prospecting reclamation, include, but are not limited to: equipment;
				topsoil salvage, haulage and redistribution; problem spoil; cuttings or waste
				handling procedures; backfilling; regrading; core hole plugging; sealing of
				artesian wells or other aquifers; subsidence controls; water and pollution
				control measures; revegetation activities and all other reclamation
				activities.
(3) Contingency costs
				associated with the prospecting project include but are not limited to:
				salaries; wages; fringe benefits; insurance; rents; premiums; retainers; and
				all other costs associated with the project.
(4) Costs associated with facility
				construction, include, but are not limited to: land acquisition; construction
				and other disturbance activities; blasting; equipment; all facilities, railroad
				loops and spurs; road construction and renovation; power and transmission
				lines; resource data inventories on the proposed facility; professional
				services and evaluations; application information and preparation; erection
				sites; waste disposal areas; treatment ponds; water and pollution control
				measures; and other facility related component costs.
(5) Costs associated with mining include but
				are not limited to: land acquisition; application information and preparation;
				permit fee; bonding; resource data inventories covering the future mining
				acreage; professional services and evaluations; equipment; road construction
				and renovation; waste disposal areas; treatment ponds; water and erosion
				control measures; blasting; overburden removal and deposition; mineral
				extraction, haulage, and further processing prior to shipment; and all other
				mining related activities.
(6)
				Costs associated with mining reclamation include but are not limited to:
				equipment; topsoil salvage; haulage and redistribution; problem soil; spoil and
				debris burial; treatment procedures; highwall reduction; backfilling and
				subsidence controls; regrading; revegetation activities; water and erosion
				control measures; post mining spoil, vegetation, and wildlife testing and
				monitoring for bond release; dismantling and removal of facilities; and all
				other costs associated with reclamation of facility site and mining
				disturbance.
(7) Contingency costs
				associated with the mining project include but are not limited to: salaries;
				wages; fringe benefits; insurance; rents; premiums; retainers; and all other
				costs associated with the project.
(8) Coal conservation costs are any
				additional costs to the mining project incurred because of the coal
				conservation requirements shall be submitted by the applicant. The various
				costs should be broken down and itemized under the various categories. All
				categories, including but not limited to those listed below, should be
				addressed. The categories are: mining of additional seams; removal of pit
				wedges; change in mining plans and all other related coal conservation
				categories.
75-1-202, MCA; IMP,
					 75-1-202,
					 MCA;