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• <br />Minutes, July 22-24, 1992 <br />D RAFT <br />Subject To Board Approval 26 <br />the process of developing a task force to review a means of moving WQCC <br />into DNR. <br />61r. Long said that, related to stormwater permitting, there is a plan <br />to implement a general permit 'For minerals mines by October, to be <br />following shortly with the permitting requirements for aggregate <br />operations. However, he said the legislation miyht require the AML <br />Program to acquire a stormwater permit for each of their projects. The <br />legislation will require everyone to obtain a stormwater permit by <br />October of 1992. Mr. Long said an attempt will be made to obtain an <br />exclusion for AML projects or a genfaral permit for this type of work. <br />Mr. Humphries said the Division will be working with DOH to establish a <br />Best Management Guideline for stormwater, including a lot of input from <br />CMA, who developed the draft documE+nt. He said informal hearings will <br />also be scheduled to gather input from any interested parties. <br />Steve Renner briefly addressed initiatives for the Coal Program. He <br />said the Division currently has a MOU with DOH to implement NPDES <br />permits. Mr. Renner said the Division is conducting most of the NPDES <br />inspections and wants to amend the MOU to include stormwater. He said <br />Best Management Practices will need to be established for roads. <br />Plans, regarding stormwater, will be submitted to OSM for their 6-month <br />review, after which rule-making will begin, including ground water (5B <br />181). <br />2. Legislative Initiatives '93 Session <br />- Use of Civil Penalties for IML Projects - non-Coal <br />- Require Landowners to Allow Operators Onsite to Conduct Reclamation <br />- Strengthen Closure Requirements on Private Lands through DOM Statutes <br />Mr. Long said the Division wants to recover some of the funds collected <br />through civil penalties for use in the AML Program. He said that <br />changing some DOM statutes to increase fees and strengthen the <br />requirement that landowners safeguard their properties from hazardous <br />openings could help this effort. Mr. Long said that a concern in the <br />Minerals Programs relates to disputes between landowners and operators <br />that results in the operator no+: tieing allowed onto the property to <br />conduct reclamation. He said this needs to be addressed and made clear <br />in the statutes. <br />Mr. Long discussed the issue of changing the statute to reflect that <br />some civil penalty funds would be~ deposited into the general fund to <br />cover costs of AML reclamation wok. Mr. Renner said the Coal Program <br />is also discussing a manner of transferring coal civil penalties, about <br />$30,000 per year, into a reclamation fund to supplement coal sites <br />revoked for insufficient funds. Board Member Cooley said that he would <br />be opposed to a policy which allowed civil penalties to be collected <br />and transferred to the Division. <br />