Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 020 - Environmental Quality, Dept. of › Sub-Agency 0007 - Land Quality - Non Coal › Chapter 5 - EXPLORATION BY DOZING › Section 5-2 - Requirements

Current through July 13, 2024
(a) Any person
				desiring to engage in exploration by dozing so as to substantially affect
				greater than three acres and less than forty acres in any four contiguous
				sixteenth sections shall submit an application to the Administrator for a
				license.
(b) If the proposed
				exploration by dozing will substantially affect forty or more acres in any four
				contiguous sixteenth sections, the applicant must apply for a surface mining
				permit, and the provisions of this Chapter shall not apply.
(c) The application for a license to explore
				by dozing shall be made on the form furnished by the Administrator, in
				duplicate, and shall contain the following information:
(i) The applicant's name, address and
				telephone number;
(ii) If different
				from the applicant, the name, address and telephone number of the operator for
				the exploration activities;
(iii)
				An original USGS topographic map, if one has been issued, showing the general
				area in which exploration is to be conducted, any access roads to be
				constructed, locations of public roads providing access to the area, dwellings,
				surface drainage, utilities, surface waters and impoundments, springs, land
				excavations to be conducted, exploratory holes to be drilled or altered, and
				earth and debris disposal areas. The area of activity shall be shown in more
				detail and distinctly outlined and identified. In lieu of a topographic map, an
				aerial photo of suitable scale may be substituted provided the above
				information is submitted and all section, township and range lines, identifying
				numbers, and a north arrow are added. These may be approximated where the land
				has not been surveyed and section corners set;
(iv) The estimated acreage of land which the
				applicant proposes to substantially affect in each section;
(v) The location of the lands to be explored
				by legal subdivision, section, quarter section (when available), township, and
				range;
(vi) A general description
				of the land within the area covered by the license cross-referenced to the map
				required in (iii) above, which shall include, as nearly as possible, its
				surface topography and geology, surface water, vegetative cover, past and
				present uses, and nature and depth of the overburden, topsoil, and mineral
				seams;
(vii) Names and addresses of
				the owners of record of the surface of all land to be affected;
(viii) Names and addresses of the owners of
				record of the mineral rights to all land to be affected;
(ix) A reclamation plan which shall include a
				description of the measures to be used to comply with the requirements of
				Section
				3 of this Chapter;
(x) A timetable showing:
(A) The anticipated length of time between
				initial surface disturbance and the beginning of reclamation.
(B) A proposed termination date for all
				exploration activities.
(C) A date
				for the completion of all reclamation activities.
(xi) An estimate, prepared in accordance with
				established engineering principles, of the cost of hiring an independent
				contractor to accomplish the reclamation of all land in the license area which
				will be affected by the exploration. Such estimate shall also give a breakdown
				of costs including the costs per acre of backfilling, replacement of topsoil,
				and the cost of seed or seedlings, and the planting thereof; and
(xii) Such other information as the
				Administrator deems necessary to enable him to ensure compliance with the
				Wyoming Environmental Quality Act and all rules adopted pursuant
				thereto.