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

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(4) Application contents for operations affecting alluvial valley floors. • (a) If land within the proposed permit area or adjacent area is identified as an alluvial vallev floor and the proposed surface coal mining operation may affect an alluvial valley floor or waters that supply alluvial valley floors, the applicant shall submit a complete application for the proposed surface coal mining and reclamation operations, to be used by the Division or Board, together with other relevant information, including an appropriate combination of information required by 2.06.8(3), as a basis for approval or denial of the permit. The complete application shall include detailed surveys and baseline data required by the Division for determination of. (i) The characteristics of the alluvial valley floor which are necessary to preserve the essential hydrologic functions during and after mining; (ii) The significance of the area to be affected, for agricultural activities; (iii) Whether the operation will avoid during mining and reclamation the interruption, discontinuance, or preclusion of farming on flood irrigated or subirrigated alluvial valley floors; (iv) Whether the operation will cause, or presents an unacceptable risk of causing, material damage to the quantity or quality of surface or ground waters that supply the alluvial valley floor; (v) The effectiveness of proposed reclamation with respect to requirements of the Act and these Rules; and (vi) Specific environmental monitoring required to measure compliance with 4.24 during and after mining reclamation operations. • (b) Certain information specified under 2.06.8(4)(a) is not required under the following circumstances (i) Information relating to 2.06.8U(a_(ii), iii , and (iv) is not required for operations which the statutory exclusions of 2.06.8(5)(b) apply; and (ii) Information relating to 2.06.8(4)(a)(iii) and (iv) is not required if land use on the alluvial valley floor has been undeveloped rangeland which is not significant tofarming or if the Division or Board finds that the farming which will be interrupted, discontinued or precluded is of such small acreage as to be of negligible impact to the farm's agricultural production. (c) Information required under this paragraph shall include an appropriate combination of, but not be limited to: (i) Geologic data, including geologic structure, and surficial geologic maps, and geologic cross-sections; (ii) Soils and vegetation data, including a detailed soil survey and chemical and phvsical analyses of soils, a vegetation map and narrative descriptions of quantitative and qualitative surveys, and land use data, including an evaluation of crop yields; A.�-I• i'.CVL J U M 2 8 2GJ0 PR 99-05 2.06-11 11/17/99