Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024
A. Applications for
permits to conduct surface coal mining and reclamation operations shall be
filed in the format required by the director. The application shall be complete
and include, at a minimum, for surface mining activities, all the applicable
information required under 19.8.7, 19.8.8 and 19.8.9 NMAC and for special types
of surface coal mining and reclamation operations, all the information required
under 19.8.10 NMAC.
B. Information
set forth in the application shall be current, presented clearly and concisely,
and supported by appropriate references to technical and other written material
available to the director.
C. All
technical data submitted to the application shall be accompanied by:
(1) names of persons or organizations which
collected and analyzed such data;
(2) dates of the collection and
analyses;
(3) descriptions of
methodology used to collect and analyze the data; and
(4) the application shall contain a
bibliography of published and unpublished material used and names, addresses
and telephone numbers of persons providing information through personal
communication.
D. Maps
and plans - general requirements.
(1) Maps
submitted with applications shall be presented in a consolidated format, to the
extent possible, and shall include all the types of information that are set
forth on topographic maps of the U.S. geological survey of the 1:24,000 scale
series. Maps of the permit area shall be at a scale of 1:6,000 or larger. Maps
of the remainder of the mine plan area and the adjacent areas shall clearly
show the lands and waters within those areas and be in a scale determined by
the director, but in no event smaller than 1:24,000.
(2) All maps and plans submitted with the
application shall distinguish among each of the phases during which surface
coal mining operations were or will be conducted at any place within the mine
plan area. At a minimum, distinctions shall be clearly shown among those
portions of the mine plan area in which surface coal mining operations
occurred:
(a) prior to August 3,
1977;
(b) after August 3, 1977 and
prior to either:
(i) May 3, 1978;
(ii) in the case of an applicant or operator
which obtained a small operator's exemption in accordance with
30 CFR
710.12 January 1, 1979;
(c) after May 3, 1978 (or January 1, 1979,
for persons who received a small operator's exemption) and prior to the
approval of the regulatory program;
(d) after the estimated date of issuance of a
permit by the director.
