La. Admin. Code tit. 43 § XV-2537

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 11, November 20, 2024

Section XV-2537 - Cross-Sections, Maps and Plans

A. The application shall include cross-sections, maps and plans showing:

1. elevations and locations of test borings and core samplings;

2. elevations and locations of monitoring stations used to gather data for water quality and quantity, fish and wildlife, and air quality, if required, in preparation of the application;

3. nature, depth and thickness of the coal seams to be mined, any coal or rider seams above the seam to be mined, each stratum of the overburden, and the stratum immediately below the lowest coal seam to be mined;

4. all coal crop lines and the strike and dip of the coal to be mined within the proposed mine plan area;

5. location and extent of known workings of active, inactive or abandoned underground mines, including mine openings to the surface within the proposed mine plan and adjacent areas;

6. location and extent of subsurface water, if encountered, within the proposed mine plan or adjacent areas;

7. location of surface-water bodies such as streams, lakes, ponds, springs, constructed or natural drains and irrigation ditches within the proposed mine plan and adjacent areas;

8. location and extent of existing or previously surface-mined areas within the proposed mine plan area;

9. location and dimensions of existing areas of spoil, waste and noncoal waste disposal, dams, embankments, other impoundments, and water treatment and air pollution control facilities within the proposed permit area;

10. location, and depth if available, of gas and oil wells within the proposed permit area and water wells in the mine plan area and adjacent area;

11. maps, plans and cross-sections included in a permit application which are required by this Section shall be prepared by or under the direction of and certified by a qualified registered professional engineer or professional geologist, with assistance from experts in related fields such as land surveying and landscape architecture and shall be updated as required by the office.

La. Admin. Code tit. 43, § XV-2537

Promulgated by the Department of Natural Resources, Office of Conservation, LR 5:395 (December 1979), amended LR 14:441 (July 1988), LR 20:447 (April 1994), LR 24:2283 (December 1998).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 30:901-932.