Section 11-8-2.3-19-1907 - 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 Department. The application shall be complete and include, at a minimum: for surface mining activities, all the applicable information required under § 53-9-25 and Rules 23, 25, and 27; and, for special types of surface coal mining and reclamation operations, all applicable information required under the Act and Rule 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 Department.(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 adjacent areas shall clearly show the lands and waters within those areas and be in a scale determined by the Department, 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 during the life of operations.11 Miss. Code. R. § 8-2.3-19-1907