Administrative Rules of Montana
Department 17 - ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
Chapter 17.24 - RECLAMATION
Subchapter 17.24.8 - Strip and Underground Reclamation Act: Alluvial Valley Floors, Prime Farmlands, Alternate Reclamation, and Auger Mining
Rule 17.24.804 - ALLUVIAL VALLEY FLOORS: MONITORING
Current through Register Vol. 6, March 22, 2024
(1) An environmental monitoring system must be installed, maintained and operated by the permittee on all alluvial valley floors during strip or underground coal mining and reclamation operations and continued until all bonds are released in accordance with ARM 17.24.1114. The monitoring system must provide sufficient information to allow the department to determine that:
(2) Monitoring must be performed at adequate frequencies, 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 requested by the department.
(4) All monitoring data collected and analyses thereof must routinely be made available to the department.
AUTH: 82-4-205, MCA; IMP: 82-4-227, 82-4-231, MCA