N.M. Admin. Code § 19.8.5.505

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 23, December 10, 2024

Section 19.8.5.505 - PERMIT APPLICATIONS: GENERAL REQUIREMENTS FOR FORMAT AND CONTENTS

A. Applications for permits to conduct surface coal mining and reclamation operations shall be filed in the format required by the director. The application shall be complete and include, at a minimum, for surface mining activities, all the applicable information required under 19.8.7, 19.8.8 and 19.8.9 NMAC and for special types of surface coal mining and reclamation operations, all the information required under 19.8.10 NMAC.

B. Information set forth in the application shall be current, presented clearly and concisely, and supported by appropriate references to technical and other written material available to the director.

C. All technical data submitted to the application shall be accompanied by:

(1) names of persons or organizations which collected and analyzed such data;

(2) dates of the collection and analyses;

(3) descriptions of methodology used to collect and analyze the data; and

(4) the application shall contain a bibliography of published and unpublished material used and names, addresses and telephone numbers of persons providing information through personal communication.

D. Maps and plans - general requirements.

(1) Maps submitted with applications shall be presented in a consolidated format, to the extent possible, and shall include all the types of information that are set forth on topographic maps of the U.S. geological survey of the 1:24,000 scale series. Maps of the permit area shall be at a scale of 1:6,000 or larger. Maps of the remainder of the mine plan area and the adjacent areas shall clearly show the lands and waters within those areas and be in a scale determined by the director, but in no event smaller than 1:24,000.

(2) All maps and plans submitted with the application shall distinguish among each of the phases during which surface coal mining operations were or will be conducted at any place within the mine plan area. At a minimum, distinctions shall be clearly shown among those portions of the mine plan area in which surface coal mining operations occurred:

(a) prior to August 3, 1977;

(b) after August 3, 1977 and prior to either:

(i) May 3, 1978;

(ii) in the case of an applicant or operator which obtained a small operator's exemption in accordance with 30 CFR 710.12 January 1, 1979;

(c) after May 3, 1978 (or January 1, 1979, for persons who received a small operator's exemption) and prior to the approval of the regulatory program;

(d) after the estimated date of issuance of a permit by the director.

N.M. Admin. Code § 19.8.5.505

11-29-97; A, 12-15-99; 19.8.5.505 NMAC - Rn, 19 NMAC 8.2.5.505, 9-29-2000