Texas Administrative Code
Title 16 - ECONOMIC REGULATION
Part 1 - RAILROAD COMMISSION OF TEXAS
Chapter 12 - COAL MINING REGULATIONS
Subchapter G - SURFACE COAL MINING AND RECLAMATION OPERATIONS, PERMITS, AND COAL EXPLORATION PROCEDURES SYSTEMS
Division 8 - UNDERGROUND MINING PERMIT APPLICATIONS - MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR INFORMATION ON ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES
Section 12.183 - Cross Sections, Maps, and Plans
Universal Citation: 16 TX Admin Code § 12.183
Current through Reg. 50, No. 13; March 28, 2025
(a) The application shall include cross sections, maps, and plans showing:
(1) elevations and locations of test borings
and core samplings;
(2) elevations
and locations of monitoring stations used to gather data on water quality and
quantity, fish and wildlife, and air quality, if required, in preparation of
the application;
(3) 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;
(4) all coal crop lines and the strike and
dip of the coal to be mined within the proposed permit area;
(5) 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;
(6) location and extent of subsurface water,
if encountered, within the proposed permit or adjacent areas, including, but
not limited to areal and vertical distribution of aquifers, and portrayal of
seasonal differences of head in different aquifers on cross sections and
contour maps;
(7) 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;
(8) location and extent of
existing or previously surface-mined areas within the proposed permit
area;
(9) location and dimensions
of existing areas of spoil, waste, coal development waste, and noncoal waste
disposal, dams, embankments, other impoundments, and water treatment and air
pollution control facilities within the proposed permit area;
(10) location, and depth if available, of gas
and oil wells within the proposed permit area and water wells in the permit
area and adjacent areas; and
(11)
sufficient slope measurements to adequately represent the existing land-surface
configuration of the area affected by surface operations and facilities,
measured and recorded according to the following:
(A) each measurement shall consist of an
angle of inclination along the prevailing slope extending 100 linear feet above
and below or beyond the coal outcrop or the area to be disturbed or, where this
is impractical, at locations specified by the Commission;
(B) where the area has been previously mined,
the measurements shall extend at least 100 feet beyond the limits of mining
disturbances, or any other distance determined by the Commission to be
representative of the premining configuration of the land; and
(C) slope measurements shall take into
account natural variations in slope, to provide accurate representation of the
range of natural slopes and reflect geomorphic differences of the area to be
disturbed.
(b) Maps, plans and cross sections included in a permit application and required by this shall be prepared by, or under the direction of and certified by a qualified professional engineer or qualified professional geoscientist, with assistance from experts in related fields such as land surveying and landscape architecture and shall be updated as required by the Commission.
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