La. Admin. Code tit. 43 § XV-1907

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

Section XV-1907 - 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 office. The application shall be complete and include, at a minimum: for surface mining activities, all the applicable information required under Chapters 23, 25, and 27; and, for special types of surface coal mining and reclamation operations, all the information required under Chapter 29.

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 office.

C. All technical data submitted in the application shall be accompanied by: names of persons or organizations which collected and analyzed such data; dates of the collection and analyses; and descriptions of methodology used to collect and analyze the data.

D. Technical analyses shall be planned by or under the direction of a professional qualified in the subject to be analyzed.

E. The application shall state the name, address and position of officials of each private or academic research organization or governmental agency consulted by the applicant in preparation of the application for information on land uses, soils geology, vegetation, fish and wildlife quantity and quality, air quality, and archaeological, cultural and historic features.

F. Maps and Plans: General Requirements

1. Maps submitted with the application 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 United States 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 office, 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.

La. Admin. Code tit. 43, § XV-1907

Promulgated by the Department of Natural Resources, Office of Conservation, LR 5:395 (December 1979), amended LR 6:177 (May 1980), LR 14:441 (July 1988), LR 20:447 (April 1994).

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