New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE
Chapter 8 - COAL MINING
Part 8 - PERMIT APPLICATIONS - MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR INFORMATION ON ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES
Section 19.8.8.813 - CROSS SECTIONS, MAPS AND PLANS
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024
The application shall include cross sections, maps and plans showing:
A. elevations and locations of test borings and core samplings;
B. elevations and locations of monitoring stations used to gather data for water quality and quantity, fish and wildlife, and air quality if required, in preparation of the application;
C. nature, depth, and thickness of the coal seams to be mined, any coal or rider seams above the seam to be mined, each stratum of the overburden and the stratum immediately below the lowest coal seam to be mined;
D. all coal crop lines and the strike and dip of the coal to be mined within the proposed permit area;
E. location and extent of known workings of active, inactive, or abandoned underground mines, including mine openings to the surface within the proposed permit and adjacent areas;
F. location and extent of sub-surface water, if encountered, within the proposed permit or adjacent area;
G. location of surface water bodies such as streams, lakes, ponds, springs, constructed or natural drains and irrigation ditches within the proposed permit and adjacent areas;
H. location and extent of existing or previously surface mined areas within the proposed permit area;
I. location and dimensions of existing areas of spoil, waste, and non-coal waste disposal, dams, embankments, other impoundments and water treatment and air pollution control facilities within the proposed permit area;
J. location and depth if available, of gas and oil wells within the proposed permit area and water wells in the permit and adjacent areas;
K. the existing land surface configuration of the proposed permit area on contour maps of a maximum of 5 foot contour intervals;
L. Maps, plans, and cross sections included in a permit application which are required by this section shall be prepared by or under the direction of and certified by a qualified professional geologist or a registered professional engineer, with assistance from experts in related fields such as land surveying reclamation or mined land rehabilitation and shall be updated as required by the director.
