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

(5) Each person who desires to conduct an experimental practice shall submit application for approval
•of the experimental practice by the Board. upon the recommendation of the Division. The application shall contain
appropriate descriptions, maps, plans. and data which show:
(a) The nature of the experimental practice, including a description of the performance
standards for which variances are requested and the duration of the experimental practice:
(b) How use of the experimental practice:
(i) Encourages advances in mining and reclamation technology, or
(ii) Allows a postmining land use for industrial, commercial, residential, or public use,
including recreational facilities, on an experimental basis, when the results are not otherwise attainable under these
Rules and the Act.
(c) That the mining and reclamation operations proposed for using an experimental practice
are not larger or more numerous than necessary to determine the effectiveness and economic feasibilitv of the
experimental practice.
(d) That the experimental practice:
(i) Is potentially more or at least as environmentally protective, during and after the
proposed mining operations, as those required under Rule 4:
(ii) Will not reduce the protection afforded public health and safety below that provided
• by the requirements of Rule 4.
(e) That the applicant will conduct special monitoring with respect to the experimental
practice during and after the operations involved. The monitoring program shall:
(i) Insure the collection and analysis of sufficient and reliable data to enable the
Board, upon the recommendation of the Division. to make adequate comparisons with other surface coal mining
and reclamation operations employing sunilar experimental practices: and
(ii) Include requirements designed to identify, as soon as possible, potential risks to
the environment and public health and safety from the use of the experimental practice.
(6) Each application shall set forth the environmental protection performance standards of Rule 4,
which will be implemented, in the event the objective of the experimental practice is a lailme.
(7) All ezperhuental practices for which variances are sought shall be specifically identified within the
newspaper advertisements by the applicant and the written notifications by the Division as required under 2.073.
(R) No experimental practice shall be authorized, unless the Board, after the reconintcndation by the
Division first finds, in writing upon the basis of a complete application tiled in accordance with the requirements
of 2.06.2 that:
(a) The experimental practice meets all the requirements of 2.06.2(5)(b) -2.06.2(5)(c); and
• ("b) The experimental practice is based on a cleariv defined set of objectives which can reasonable be
expected to be achieved.
Permit Renewal No. 3 2.06-1.1 3/5/99