Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES › Part XV - Office of Conservation-Surface Mining › Subpart 3 - Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation Operations Permits and Coal Exploration and Development Procedures Systems › Chapter 29 - Requirements for Permits for Special Categories of Mining › Section XV-2907 - Prime Farmlands

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. Application
				  Contents for Prime Farmland. If land within the proposed permit area is
				  identified as prime farmland under §2539, the applicant shall submit a
				  plan for the mining and restoration of the land. Each plan shall contain, as a
				  minimum:
1. a soil survey of the permit area
				  according to the standards of the National Cooperative Soil Survey and in
				  accordance with the procedures set forth in U.S. Department of Agriculture
				  Handbook 436 "Soil Taxonomy" (U.S. Soil Conservation Service, 1975), as amended
				  on March 22, 1982 and October 5, 1982, and Handbook 18, "Soil Survey Manual"
				  (U.S. Soil Conservation Service, 1951), as amended on December 18, 1979, May 7,
				  1980, May 9, 1980, September 11, 1980, June 9, 1981, June 29, 1981, and
				  November 16, 1982. The U.S. Soil Conservation Service establishes the standards
				  of the National Cooperative Soil Survey and maintains a National Soils Handbook
				  which gives current acceptable procedures for conducting soil surveys. This
				  National Soils Handbook is available for review at area and state SCS offices;
a. U.S. Department of Agriculture Handbooks
				  436 and 18 are incorporated by reference as they exist on the date of adoption
				  of this Section. Notices of changes made to these publications will be
				  periodically published by OSM in the
Federal Register.
The
				  handbooks are on file and available for inspection at the OSM Central Office,
				  U.S. Department of the Interior, 1951 Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington,
				  D.C., at each OSM Technical Center and Field Office, and at the Office of
				  Conservation, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Copies of these documents are also
				  available from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing
				  Office, Washington D.C. 20402, Stock Nos. 001-000-02597-0 and 001-000-00688-6,
				  respectively. In addition, these documents are available for inspection at the
				  national, state and area offices of the Soil Conservation Service, U.S.
				  Department of Agriculture, and at the
Federal Register
library, 1100 L Street, NW., Washington, D.C. Incorporation by reference
				  provisions were approved by the director of the
Federal
				  Register
on June 29, 1981;
b. the soil survey shall include a
				  description of soil mapping units and a representative soil profile as
				  determined by the U.S. Soil Conservation Service, including, but not limited
				  to, soil-horizon depths, pH, and the range of soil densities for each prime
				  farmland soil unit within the permit area. Other representative soil-profile
				  descriptions from the locality, prepared according to the standards of the
				  National Cooperative Soil Survey, may be used if their use is approved by the
				  State Conservationist, U.S. Soil Conservation Service;