2018-04-13_PERMIT FILE - C1981019A ‎(2)‎

• Permit No: C1981019A
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 4/13/2018
• Section_Exhibit Name: Table of Contents
• Media Type: D
• Archive: Yes

TABLE OF CONTENTS
4.06 TOPSOIL...................................................................................................................................................4-23
4.06.1 General Requirements....................................................................................................................4-23
4.06.2 Removal.
4.06.3 Storage...........................................................................................................................................4-24
4.06.4 Redistribution.................................................................................................................................4-25
4.06.5 Reconditioning...............................................................................................................................4-25
4.07 SEALING OF DRILLED HOLES AND UNDERGROUND OPENINGS................................................................4-25
4.07.1 General Requirement.....................................................................................................................4-25
4.07.2 Temporary Sealing.........................................................................................................................4-26
4.07.3 Permanent Sealing.........................................................................................................................4-26
4.07.4 Abandonment in Designated Groundwater Basins........................................................................4-26
4.08 USE OF EXPLOSIVES................................................................................................................................4-26
4.08.1 General Requirements....................................................................................................................4-26
4.08.2 Pre -Blasting Survey.......................................................................................................................4-27
4.08.3 Public Notice of Blasting Schedule................................................................................................4-27
4.08.4 Surface Blasting Requirements......................................................................................................
4-28
4.08.5 Records of Surface Blasting Activities...........................................................................................
4-29
4.08.6 Seismographic Measurements........................................................................................................4-30
4.09 DISPOSAL OF EXCESS SPOIL AND UNDERGROUND DEVELOPMENT FILL WASTE......................................4-30
4.10 COAL PROCESSING WASTE BANKS..........................................................................................................4-31
4.11 COAL PROCESSING WASTE......................................................................................................................4-32
4.11.1 Burning.........................................................................................................................................
4-.32
4.11.2 Burned Waste Utilization...............................................................................................................4-32
4.11.3 Return to Underground Workings..................................................................................................4-32
4.11.4 Disposal of Noncoal Waste............................................................................................................
4-32
4.11.5 Dams and Embankments................................................................................................................4-32
4.12 SLIDES AND OTHER DAMAGE..................................................................................................................4-33
4.13 CONTEMPORANEOUS RECLAMATION.......................................................................................................4-33
4.14 BACKFILLING AND GRADING...................................................................................................................4-36
4.14.1 General Requirements....................................................................................................................4-36
4.14.2 General Grading Requirements.....................................................................................................4-38
4.14.3 Covering Coal and Acid and Toxic Forming Materials.................................................................4-39
4.14.4 Thin Overburden............................................................................................................................4-39
4.14.5 Thick Overburden..........................................................................................................................
4-39
4.14.6 Regrading or Stabilizing Rills and Gullies.....................................................................................4-39
4.15 REVEGETATION REQUIREMENTS.............................................................................................................4-40
4.15.1 General Requirements.........................................................................................................................4-40
4.15.1(4) Vegetation Monitoring.....................................................................................................................4-40
4.15.2 Use of Introduced Species....................................................................................................................
4-41
4.15.3 Seeding and Planting............................................................................................................................4-42
4.15.4 Mulching and Other Soil Stabilizing Practices.....................................................................................4-42
4.15.5 Grazing.................................................................................................................................................4-43
4.15.6 Field Trials...........................................................................................................................................4-43
4.15.7 Determining Revegetation Success: General Requirements and Standards.................................4-54
4.15.8 Revegetation Success Criteria........................................................................................................4-56
4.15.9 Revegetation Success Criteria: Cropland......................................................................................4-67
4.15.10 Revegetation Success Criteria: Previously Mined Areas: Areas to be Developed for Industrial or
ResidentialUse......:.........................................................................................................................................4-67
4.15.11 Revegetation Sampling Methods and Statistical Demonstrations for Revegetation Success
Revegetation Community Mapping / Stratification..........................................................................................
4-67
4.16 POSTMINING LAND USE...........................................................................................................................4-72
4.16.1 General..........................................................................................................................................4-72
4.16.2 Determining Use of Land...............................................................................................................4-72
4.16.3 Prior to Release of Lands from the Permit Area in Accordance with 3.03.1 (2) (c) ......................4-72
4.17 AIR RESOURCES PROCTECTION...............................................................................................................4-73
4.18 PROTECTION OF FISH, WILDLIFE, AND RELATED ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES..........................................4-73
Table of Contents iii Date Revised: 4/9/18
Revision No: MR -184