2017-03-29_PERMIT FILE - M2016085

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the mining activity and these many hundreds of acres of exposed sand and gravel create harmful and fierce dust storms. Recommendation; Require the applicant to identify a qualified Air Quality Engineering group with the charge of developing background data and a monitoring plan prior to mining and for the life of the mine. Immediately, begin a sixteen month background opacity study utilizing EPA Method 9 (40 CFR, Part 60 Appendix A (July, 1992)) in all subsections of Section II, A and B of this regulation. Develop, maintain and analyze a weekly record keeping compliance plan implemented by others. The purpose of the compliance plan is to provide a consistent reasonable process for documenting air quality. The bi- weekly onsite monitoring and sampling inspection and analysis is required to monitor the long term exposures. Further, the development of an air quality violations protocol, notification of violation and initiating enforcement actions to ensures that violations are addressed in a timely manner. Finally, have the Air Quality Engineers develop trigger points that create discernible compensatory damages and a long-term exposure compensation schedule for the affected adjacent landowners. Necessary Mitigation: This land owners property is elevated 14 feet above the proposed mine and is flanked by the mine for a quarter of a mile (1,468 If). To mitigate these dangerous health condition this land owner requires that the applicant NCCI employ; L Mining sound and dust control walls that typically range in height from 16 to 32 feet must be installed on all four sides of a Mining Processing Plant Area to prevent associated fugitive dust and control processing noise. The ENC`s STC -25 modular acoustical and fugitive particulate confinement wall panel system is specially designed to effectively block related noise and fugitive particulate propagating into the surrounding environment The wall units also allow for quick and efficient installation and alteration. ii. Chemical stabilization of unpaved roads as often as necessary to minimize fugitive particulate matter, using polymer products (e.g., polyvinyl acetates, vinyl acrylics) must be required and verifiable. iii. Control of fugitive particulate emissions from aggregate storage pile through the use of enclosures, covers, or stabling polymer product be employed by the applicant. iv. Minimize the area to be disturbed by mining and develop a strict mining exposure plan that limits disturbed soils to be employed by the applicant, v. Require prompt removal of aggregates and prompt revegetation, vi. Restrict and limit location of over burden stock piles to minimize fugitive particulate emission by developing a strict staged mining plan, vii. Require prompt revegetation, seeding and mulching and otherwise stabilizing the exposed aggregate surfaces within the mine and the