Nevada Administrative Code
Chapter 445A - Water Controls
MINING FACILITIES
Operation and Design of Facilities
Section 445A.429 - Procedures required to prevent release of contaminants; requirements concerning impoundments

1. The holder of the permit must institute appropriate procedures to ensure that all mined areas do not release contaminants that have the potential to degrade the waters of the State.

2. Open pit mines must, to the extent practicable, be free-draining or left in a manner which minimizes the impoundment of surface drainage and the potential for contaminants to be transported and degrade the waters of the State.

3. Underground mines must, to the extent practicable, be left in a manner which minimizes the inflow and outflow of water through the openings to the mine on the surface of the land.

4. Bodies of water which are a result of mine pits penetrating the water table must not create an impoundment which:

5. The holder of a permit may apply to the Commission to establish a beneficial use with a level of protection less than that required by paragraph (b) of subsection 4 for water impounded in a specific mine pit.