New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 8 - COAL MINING › Part 5 - GENERAL REQUIREMENTS FOR PERMITS AND PERMIT APPLICATIONS › Section 19.8.5.507 - ANNUAL REPORT

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
A. By March 1
				of each year, the operator shall submit to the director a report, setting out
				in detail the measures taken to effect reclamation of the affected area during
				the previous calendar year. The report must be typewritten and signed by the
				operator. The report must include the following information:
(1) a current topographic or
				orthophotographic map with 5' contour intervals. The map shall be the same
				scale as the mining and reclamation sequence maps found in the approved permit
				with 5' contour intervals. The map must be made on a single sheet, or series of
				sheets, each sheet of the map being no larger than 4' x 4'. The scale and all
				lines and symbols must be clearly described in the legend.
(2) The first annual report map under this
				rule shall show the following, and each subsequent map shall show all
				information from the immediately preceding year's map in addition to any
				changes in:
(a) current permit
				boundary.
(b) maintenance
				buildings, office buildings, and storage areas.
(c) petroleum and industrial chemical storage
				areas.
(d) surface and underground
				storage tanks.
(e) public roads and
				primary and auxiliary roads within the permit.
(f) perennial and major intermittent and
				ephemeral streams, lakes, springs, and other natural bodies of water.
(g) sediment ponds, other approved
				impoundments, and diversions (the sediment ponds should be identified by the
				same system used in the mine plan or modification to the mine plan).
(h) rail facilities.
(i) coal processing, storage, and loading
				facilities within the permit area.
(j) sewage treatment plants, fields, or
				ponds.
(k) coal waste disposal
				areas; other waste disposal areas.
(l) section corners, or grid
				coordinates.
(m) locations of water
				monitoring points (wells, stream sample point, and point source discharges)
				with NPDES permit number (these should correspond to identification systems
				used in the mine plan.
(n)
				topdressing stockpiles (these should correspond to mine plan system of
				identification).
(o) buffer zones.
				Any area that is required to be left undisturbed to protect pre-mine features
				of the landscape, or any area (disturbed or undisturbed) that is purposely
				established to separate different phases of the coal mining
				operation.
(p) all pits (named or
				numbered) as presented in the mine plan or modifications to the mine
				plan.
(q) all areas that have been
				reseeded (indicate initial year of seeding and last year of
				reseeding).
(r) areas on which
				grading was completed during the report year (with each individual area
				indicate the acreage).
(s) areas
				that were first disturbed during the report year (within each individual area
				indicate the acreage).
(t) areas
				governed by the following regulatory performance standards:
(i) pre 79-1
(ii) 79-1
(iii) 80-1
(u) areas currently under bond and bond
				release status of each area.
(3) Three copies of the annual report
				including maps shall be submitted.