1. An applicant for a permit to construct,
operate and close permanently a facility which utilizes physical separation
methods of concentrating ore such as placer mining methods and which uses only
coagulants and flocculants submitted to and approved by the Department, must
submit to the Department:
(a) The information
required by paragraphs (a) to (e), inclusive, of subsection 2 of NAC
445A.394.
(b) An abbreviated area of review which
covers only the site and the adjacent area, including an identification of all
surface water within 1/2 mile of the site and the depth and quality of all
groundwater beneath the site .
(c)
A draft operating plan which describes the circuit for concentrating the ores
and identifies all process components .
(d) Except as otherwise provided in this
paragraph, a meteoric water mobility procedure and Profile I analysis conducted
using ASTM E2242-13, "Standard Test Method for Column Percolation Extraction of
Mine Rock by the Meteoric Water Mobility Procedure," available from ASTM
International, P.O. Box C700, 100 Barr Harbor Drive, West Conshohocken,
Pennsylvania 19428-2959, by telephone at (877) 909-2786 or at the Internet
address
http://www.astm.org , for the
price of $46, or the most recently promulgated version thereof that is approved
in writing by the Department and scientifically demonstrated as achieving
equivalent performance to the ASTM E2242-13 method in determining Profile I
constituent concentrations or another approved method of analysis which
characterizes the ore body . Unless otherwise required by the Department based
on specific concerns regarding the potential to degrade the waters of the
State, such an analysis is not required for a facility that will process only
uncrushed alluvium.
(e) The results
of an analysis of the process make up water and process water for the inorganic
constituents listed in NAC
445A.453 and
445A.455 to determine which and
to what extent the process water burden of these elements is increased
.
(f) A certification that the
applicant will not utilize any chemicals in the process except those submitted
to and approved by the Department.
2. The use of a chemical not approved by the
Department removes the facility from this category of operation and requires
the holder of the permit to meet the requirements established in NAC
445A.394 to
445A.398, inclusive.
Added to NAC by
Environmental Comm'n, eff. 9-1-89-Substituted in revision for NAC 445.24328; A
by
R046-18A,
eff. 8/21/2018; A by
R046-18AP,
eff. 8/30/2018
