Utah Administrative Code
Topic - Natural Resources
Title R647 - Oil, Gas and Mining; Non-Coal
Rule R647-4 - Small Mining Operations
Section R647-4-110 - Reclamation Plan

Universal Citation: UT Admin Code R 647-4-110

Current through Bulletin 2024-18, September 15, 2024

Each notice of intention shall include a reclamation plan, including maps or drawings as necessary, consisting of a narrative description of the proposed reclamation including, but not limited to:

1. A statement of the current land use and the proposed postmining land use for the disturbed area;

2. A description of the manner and the extent to which roads, highwalls, slopes, impoundments, drainages, pits and ponds, piles, shafts and adits, drill holes, and similar structures will be reclaimed;

3. A detailed description of any surface facilities to be left as part of the postmining land use, including but not limited to buildings, utilities, roads, pads, ponds, pits and surface equipment;

4. A description of the treatment, location and disposition of any deleterious or acid-forming materials generated and left on-site, including a map showing the location of such materials upon the completion of reclamation;

5. A planting program as best calculated to revegetate the disturbed area.

5.11. Plans shall include, at a minimum, grading and/or stabilization procedures, topsoil replacement, seed bed preparation, seed mixture(s) and rate(s), and timing of seeding (fall seeding is preferred timing);

5.12. Where there is no original protective cover, an alternate practical procedure must be proposed to minimize or control erosion or siltation.

6. A statement that the operator will conduct reclamation as required by these rules.

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