Texas Administrative Code
Title 16 - ECONOMIC REGULATION
Part 1 - RAILROAD COMMISSION OF TEXAS
Chapter 12 - COAL MINING REGULATIONS
Subchapter K - PERMANENT PROGRAM PERFORMANCE STANDARDS
Division 3 - PERMANENT PROGRAM PERFORMANCE STANDARDS - UNDERGROUND MINING ACTIVITIES
- Section 12.500 - Signs and Markers
- Section 12.501 - Casing and Sealing of Exposed Underground Openings: General Requirements
- Section 12.502 - Casing and Sealing of Underground Openings: Temporary
- Section 12.503 - Casing and Sealing of Underground Openings: Permanent
- Section 12.504 - Topsoil: General Requirements
- Section 12.505 - Topsoil: Removal
- Section 12.506 - Topsoil: Storage
- Section 12.507 - Topsoil: Redistribution
- Section 12.508 - Topsoil: Nutrients and Soil Amendments
- Section 12.509 - Hydrologic Balance: General Requirements
- Section 12.510 - Hydrologic Balance: Water-Quality Standards and Effluent Limitations
- Section 12.511 - Hydrologic Balance: Diversions
- Section 12.513 - Hydrologic Balance: Sediment Control Measures
- Section 12.514 - Hydrologic Balance: Siltation Structures
- Section 12.515 - Hydrologic Balance: Discharge Structures
- Section 12.516 - Hydrologic Balance: Acid-Forming and Toxic-Forming Materials
- Section 12.517 - Hydrologic Balance: Permanent and Temporary Impoundments
- Section 12.518 - Hydrologic Balance: Underground Mine Entry and Access Discharges
- Section 12.519 - Hydrologic Balance: Surface and Ground-Water Monitoring
- Section 12.520 - Hydrologic Balance: Transfer of Wells
- Section 12.521 - Hydrologic Balance: Water Rights and Replacement
- Section 12.522 - Hydrologic Balance: Discharge of Water into an Underground Mine
- Section 12.523 - Hydrologic Balance: Postmining Rehabilitation of Sedimentation Ponds, Diversions, Impoundments, and Treatment Facilities
- Section 12.524 - Hydrologic Balance: Stream Buffer Zones
- Section 12.525 - Coal Recovery
- Section 12.526 - Use of Explosives: General Requirements
- Section 12.527 - Use of Explosives: Pre-Blasting Survey
- Section 12.528 - Use of Explosives: Control of Adverse Effects
- Section 12.530 - Use of Explosives: Records of Blasting Operations
- Section 12.531 - Disposal of Underground Development Waste and Excess Spoil: General Requirements
- Section 12.532 - Disposal of Underground Development Waste and Excess Spoil: Valley Fills
- Section 12.533 - Disposal of Underground Development Waste and Excess Spoil: Head-of-Hollow Fills
- Section 12.534 - Disposal of Underground Development Waste and Excess Spoil: Durable Rock Fills
- Section 12.535 - Coal Mine Waste Banks: General Requirements
- Section 12.536 - Coal Mine Waste Banks: Site Inspection
- Section 12.537 - Coal Mine Waste Banks: Water-Control Measures
- Section 12.538 - Coal Mine Waste Banks: Construction Requirements
- Section 12.539 - Coal Mine Waste: Burning
- Section 12.540 - Coal Mine Waste: Burned-Waste Utilization
- Section 12.541 - Coal Mine Waste: Return to Underground Workings
- Section 12.542 - Disposal of Noncoal Wastes
- Section 12.543 - Coal Mine Waste: Dams and Embankments: General Requirements
- Section 12.544 - Coal Mine Waste: Dams and Embankments: Site Preparation
- Section 12.545 - Coal Mine Waste: Dams and Embankments: Design and Construction
- Section 12.547 - Protection of Fish, Wildlife, and Related Environmental Values
- Section 12.548 - Slides And Other Damage
- Section 12.549 - Pipelines
- Section 12.550 - Contemporaneous Reclamation
- Section 12.551 - Backfilling and Grading: General Requirements
- Section 12.552 - Backfilling and Grading: General Grading Requirements
- Section 12.553 - Backfilling and Grading: Covering Coal and Acid- and Toxic-Forming Materials
- Section 12.554 - Stabilization of Surface Areas for Underground Mining
- Section 12.555 - Revegetation: General Requirements
- Section 12.556 - Revegetation: Use of Introduced Species
- Section 12.557 - Revegetation: Timing
- Section 12.558 - Revegetation: Mulching and Other Soil Stabilizing Practices
- Section 12.559 - Revegetation: Grazing
- Section 12.560 - Revegetation: Standards for Success
- Section 12.562 - Subsidence Control: General Requirements
- Section 12.563 - Subsidence Control: Public Notice
- Section 12.564 - Subsidence Control: Surface-Owner Protection
- Section 12.565 - Subsidence Control: Buffer Zones
- Section 12.566 - Cessation of Operations: Temporary
- Section 12.567 - Cessation of Operations: Permanent
- Section 12.568 - Postmining Land Use
- Section 12.569 - Roads: General
- Section 12.570 - Primary Roads
- Section 12.571 - Utility Installations
- Section 12.572 - Support Facilities
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