Chapter 53 - Permanent Program Performance Standards: Surface Mining Activities
- Section XV-5301 - Signs and Markers
- Section XV-5303 - Casing and Sealing of Drilled Holes: General Requirements
- Section XV-5305 - Casing and Sealing of Drilled Holes: Temporary
- Section XV-5307 - Casing and Sealing of Drilled Holes: Permanent
- Section XV-5309 - Topsoil: General Requirements
- Section XV-5311 - Topsoil: Removal
- Section XV-5313 - Topsoil: Storage
- Section XV-5315 - Topsoil: Redistribution
- Section XV-5317 - Topsoil: Nutrients and Soil Amendments
- Section XV-5319 - Hydrologic Balance: General Requirements
- Section XV-5321 - Hydrologic Balance: Water Quality Standards and Effluent Limitations
- Section XV-5323 - Hydrologic Balance: Diversions
- Section XV-5325 - Hydrologic Balance: Sediment Control Measures
- Section XV-5327 - Hydrologic Balance: Siltation Structures
- Section XV-5329 - Hydrologic Balance: Discharge Structures
- Section XV-5331 - Hydrologic Balance: Acid-Forming and Toxic-Forming Spoil
- Section XV-5333 - Hydrologic Balance: Impoundments
- Section XV-5335 - Hydrologic Balance: Ground-Water Protection
- Section XV-5337 - Hydrologic Balance: Protection of Ground-Water Recharge Capacity
- Section XV-5339 - Hydrologic Balance: Surface- and Ground-Water Monitoring
- Section XV-5341 - Hydrologic Balance: Transfer of Wells
- Section XV-5343 - Hydrologic Balance: Water Rights and Replacement
- Section XV-5345 - Hydrologic Balance: Discharge of Water into an Underground Mine
- Section XV-5347 - Hydrologic Balance: Post-Mining Rehabilitation of Sedimentation Ponds, Diversions, Impoundments and Treatment Facilities
- Section XV-5349 - Hydrologic Balance: Stream Buffer Zones
- Section XV-5351 - Coal Recovery
- Section XV-5353 - Use of Explosives: General Requirements
- Section XV-5355 - Use of Explosives: Preblasting Survey
- Section XV-5357 - Use of Explosives: Blasting Schedule
- Section XV-5359 - Use of Explosives: Blasting Signs, Warnings and Access Control
- Section XV-5361 - Use of Explosives: Control of Adverse Effects
- Section XV-5363 - Use of Explosives: Records of Blasting Operations
- Section XV-5365 - Disposal of Excess Spoil: General Requirements
- Section XV-5367 - Disposal of Excess Spoil: Valley Fills
- Section XV-5369 - Disposal of Excess Spoil: Head-of-Hollow Fills
- Section XV-5371 - Disposal of Excess Spoil: Durable Rock Fills
- Section XV-5373 - Protection of Underground Mining
- Section XV-5375 - Coal Processing Waste Banks: General Requirements
- Section XV-5377 - Coal Processing Waste Banks: Site Inspection
- Section XV-5379 - Coal Processing Waste Banks: Water Control Measures
- Section XV-5381 - Coal Processing Waste Banks: Construction Requirements
- Section XV-5383 - Coal Processing Waste: Burning
- Section XV-5385 - Coal Processing Waste: Burned Waste Utilization
- Section XV-5387 - Coal Processing Waste: Return to Underground Workings
- Section XV-5389 - Disposal of Noncoal Wastes
- Section XV-5391 - Coal Processing Waste: Dams and Embankments-General Requirements
- Section XV-5393 - Coal Processing Waste: Dams and Embankments-Site Preparation
- Section XV-5395 - Coal Processing Waste: Dams and Embankments-Design and Construction
- Section XV-5397 - Air Resources Protection
- Section XV-5399 - Protection of Fish, Wildlife and Related Environmental Values
- Section XV-5401 - Slides and Other Damage
- Section XV-5403 - Contemporaneous Reclamation
- Section XV-5405 - Backfilling and Grading: General Requirements
- Section XV-5407 - Backfilling and Grading: General Grading Requirements
- Section XV-5409 - Backfilling and Grading: Covering Coal and Acid- and Toxic-Forming Materials
- Section XV-5411 - Backfilling and Grading: Thin Overburden
- Section XV-5413 - Backfilling and Grading: Thick Overburden
- Section XV-5414 - Backfilling and Grading: Previously Mined Areas
- Section XV-5415 - Regrading or Stabilizing Rills and Gullies
- Section XV-5417 - Revegetation: General Requirements
- Section XV-5419 - Revegetation Timing
- Section XV-5421 - Revegetation: Mulching and Other Soil Stabilizing Practices
- Section XV-5423 - Revegetation: Standards for Success
- Section XV-5424 - Revegetation: Standards for Success-Post-Mining Land Use of Pastureland
- Section XV-5425 - Revegetation: Standards for Success-Post-Mining Land Use of Wildlife Habitat
- Section XV-5427 - Cessation of Operations: Temporary
- Section XV-5429 - Cessation of Operations: Permanent
- Section XV-5431 - Post-Mining Land Use
- Section XV-5433 - Roads: General
- Section XV-5435 - Primary Roads
- Section XV-5437 - Other Transportation Facilities
- Section XV-5439 - Support Facilities and Utility Installations