2016-05-04_PERMIT FILE - C1982056 ‎(7)‎

• Permit No: C1982056
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 5/4/2016
• Section_Exhibit Name: 2.06 Special Categories of Mining
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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Rule 2.06.1 - Scope
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Rule 2.06 establishes minimum requirements for permits for the followine special cateeories of surface
coal mining and reclamation operations. which are in addition to all applicable permit application requirements and
procedures of Rule 2:
(1) Experimental practices mining;
(2) Mountaintop removal mining:
(3) Steep slope mining
(4) Variances from approximate original contour restoration requirements for sleep slope mining.
5) Prime farmlands
(6) Variances for delay in contemporaneous reclamation requirement in combined surface and
underground mining operations:
and
(7) Minineofalluvial valley floors,
(S) Auguring;
(9) Coal processing plants or support facilities not located within the permit area of a specified mine;
(10) In situ processing activities.
Rule 2.06.2 - Experimental Practices Mining
(1) Scope. The provisions of 2.06.2 apply to any person who conducts or intends to conduct surface
coal mining and reclamation operations under a permit authorizing the use of alternative mining practices on an
experimental basis if the practices require a variance from the environmental protection performance standards of
Rule 4.
2) The ouroose of 2.06.2 is to provide requirements for the permitting of surface coal minine and
reclamation operations that encourage advances in mining and reclamation practices or allow postmining land use
for industrial, commercial, residential or public use (includine recreational facilities) on an experimental basis. It
docs not include small test plots of limited planned duration that affect a small percent of the total area being
minine or reclaimed and that do not result in violations of any applicable air or wafer environmental reeulations.
(3) Fxperinmental practice means the use of alternative surface coal mining and reclamation operation
practices for experimental or research purposes.
4) No person shall cneaee in or maintain anv experimental practice, unless that nracticc is first
approved by the Board, upon the recommendation of the Division. and with the approval of the Director of the
Office of Surface Mining as an authorized representative of the secretary of the United States Department of
• Interior. The Director must concur in the approval of am experimental practice and the approval of any revision,
which proposes significant alterations in the experimental practice before the experimental practice, is authorized.
Permit Renewal No. 3 2.06-1 3/5/99