Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES
Part XV - Office of Conservation-Surface Mining
Subpart 5 - Permanent Program Performance Standards
Chapter 53 - Permanent Program Performance Standards: Surface Mining Activities
Section XV-5337 - Hydrologic Balance: Protection of Ground-Water Recharge Capacity
Universal Citation: LA Admin Code XV-5337
Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024
A. Surface mining activities shall be conducted in a manner that facilitates reclamation which will restore approximate premining recharge capacity, through restoration of the capability of the reclaimed areas as a whole, excluding coal processing waste and underground development waste disposal areas and fills, to transmit water to the ground-water system. The recharge capacity shall be restored to a condition which:
1. supports the approved
post-mining land use;
2. minimizes
disturbances to the prevailing hydrologic balance in the mine plan area and in
adjacent areas; and
3. provides a
rate of recharge that approximates the premining recharge rate.
AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 30:901-932.
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