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Section 785.19 (c) Continued. f ability criteria of flood irrigation or sub-irrigation because of insufficient water supply for irrigation. Therefore, it is con- cluded that none of this area can be considered as an alluvial valley floor. The sixth subject area, the reach of Sudduth Draw in and downstream from the mine plan area, was found by field investigation not to be flood-irrigated or naturally sub-irrigated. A series of stock ponds along the entire reach of the stream causes an artificial elevation of the water table into the root zone in the subject area. While this artificial sub-irrigation is identifiable in the field and on color infrared photography, it is not valid to assume that the study area was sub-irrigated before the stock ponds were constructed. Since correlations of water availability characteris- tics can be drawn between Sudduth Draw and the other intermittent . stream valleys in the mine plan area, and the fact that this reach of Sudduth Draw is not "naturally sub-irrigated", none of this area can be considered as sub-irrigated. Therefore, none of this area can be considered an alluvial valley floor. I . (d) Application contents for operations affecting designated alluvial valley floors. (1) If land within the proposed permit area or adjacent area is identi- fied as an alluvial valley floor and the proposed mining operation may affect an alluvial valley floor, or waters that supply alluvial valley floors, the applicant shall submit a complete application for the pro- posed mining and reclamation operations, to be used by the regulatory authority, together with other relevant information, including the information required by Paragraph (c) of this Section, as a basis for approval or denial of the permit. The complete application shall in- clude detailed surveys and baseline data required by the regulatory authority for a determination of-- • 785-28