Section 69-05.2-25-03 - Performance standards - Alluvial valley floors -Monitoring1. An environmental monitoring system must be installed, maintained, and operated by the permittee on all alluvial valley floors during operations and continued until all bonds are released. The monitoring system must provide sufficient information to allow the commission to determine that: a. The agricultural utility and production of the alluvial valley floor not within the affected area are being preserved. b. The potential agricultural utility and production on the alluvial valley floor within the affected area have been reestablished. c. The important characteristics supporting the essential hydrologic functions of an alluvial valley floor in the affected area have been reestablished. d. The important characteristics supporting the essential hydrologic functions of an alluvial valley floor in areas not affected are preserved during and after mining. 2. Monitoring must be performed at frequencies adequate to indicate long-term trends that could affect agricultural use of the alluvial valley floors. 3. Monitoring must be performed during operations to identify characteristics of the alluvial valley floor not identified in the permit application and to evaluate the importance of all characteristics. 4. All monitoring data and analyses must be submitted to the commission according to the timetable approved in the permit application. Hydrologic monitoring and reporting must comply with sections 69-05.2-16-05 and 69-05.2-16-14. N.D. Admin Code 69-05.2-25-03
Effective August 1, 1980; amended effective May 1, 1990; May 1,1992; January 1, 1993.General Authority: NDCC 38-14.1-03
Law Implemented: NDCC 38-14.1-24, 38-14.1-42