New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE
Chapter 8 - COAL MINING
Part 3 - CRITERIA FOR DESIGNATING AREAS AS UNSUITABLE FOR SURFACE COAL MINING OPERATIONS
Section 19.8.3.300 - CRITERIA FOR DESIGNATING LANDS AS UNSUITABLE
Universal Citation: 19 NM Admin Code 19.8.3.300
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 24, December 23, 2024
A. Upon petition an area shall be designated as unsuitable for all or certain types of surface coal mining operations, if the director determines that reclamation is not technologically and economically feasible under the act and 19.8.1 through 19.8.35 NMAC.
B. Upon petition an area may be (but is not required to be) designated as unsuitable for certain types of surface coal mining operations, if the operations will:
(1) be incompatible with existing state or
local land use plans or programs;
(2) affect fragile or historic lands in which
the operations could result in significant damage to important historic,
cultural, scientific, or aesthetic values or natural systems;
(3) affect renewable resource lands in which
the operations could result in a substantial loss or reduction of long-range
productivity of water supply or of food or fiber products; or
(4) affect natural hazard lands in which the
operations could substantially endanger life and property, such lands to
include areas subject to frequent flooding and areas of unstable geologic
formations.
C. Pursuant to appropriate petitions, lands listed in 19.8.2 NMAC are subject to designation as unsuitable for all or certain types of surface coal mining operations under 19.8.3.300 NMAC.
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