Administrative Rules of Montana › Department 17 - ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 17.24 - RECLAMATION › Subchapter 17.24.2 - Rules and Regulations Governing the Opencut Mining Act › Rule 17.24.221 - PLAN OF OPERATION-MAPS

Current through Register Vol. 13, July 5, 2024
(1) For a
				standard permit or standard permit amendment, a plan of operation must comply
				with
				82-4-434(2),
				MCA and include: a site map, area map, reclamation map, location map, and other
				maps necessary to describe the proposed opencut operation. Except as provided
				in (6), maps submitted to the department in accordance with this subchapter
				must be legible, on an air-photo base, and in a scale sufficient to clearly
				describe the subject matter. An application supported by a map submitted in an
				electronic format that is incompatible with the department's systems, that
				cannot be reviewed, or that is otherwise illegible is not acceptable. A map
				submitted in other than electronic format must fill an 8 1/2- by 11- or 11- by
				17-inch sheet leaving margins of approximately 1/2 inch.
(2) The following items must be shown and
				labeled on each map submitted to the department: operator name; site name;
				legal description of the proposed permit area; bar scale; date of drafting; and
				north arrow.
(3) Site maps must
				show and identify the following existing and proposed features as applicable:
(a) permitted access roads, including the
				location, width, waterway crossings, and surfacing;
(b) permit boundaries;
(c) bonded area boundary;
(d) non-bonded area boundary;
(e) excess overburden and fines disposal
				sites;
(f) staging areas;
(g) heavy equipment parking areas;
(h) fuel storage areas;
(i) sight and sound barriers and
				berms;
(j) soil stockpile
				areas;
(k) overburden and excess
				overburden stockpile areas;
(l)
				material stockpile areas;
(m)
				processing facilities, including approximate locations of:
(i) crusher;
(ii) asphalt plant;
(iii) wash plants; and
(iv) concrete plant;
(n) detention ponds;
(o) concrete and asphalt recycling stockpile
				area;
(p) soil and overburden test
				hole and observation point locations;
(q) water system and structures, including:
(i) supply wells;
(ii) water recycling and settling
				ponds;
(iii) surface water
				extraction points;
(iv) discharge
				points for water used in opencut operations; and
(v) all surface waters including, but not
				limited to, ponds, lakes, wetlands, and defined and/or eroded channels of
				waterways including, but not limited to, rivers, creeks, intermittent or
				perennial streams, drainages, ditches, water conveyance facilities, and other
				waterways;
(r) above and
				below ground utilities and easements within the permit boundary;
(s) roads crossing areas where opencut
				activities are prohibited by ARM 17.24.218(1)(g);
(t) erosion controls;
(u) historic disturbances within or adjacent
				to permit area boundary;
(v) the
				data point and map identification number for each pair of coordinates the
				operator provided on the boundary coordinate table that is required by (8);
				and
(w) any other pertinent
				features that are necessary to ensure compliance with the Act and
				rules.