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• The monitoring sites will consist of shallow wells drilled and cased through the alluvium for ground water level measurement and sampling; neutron probe access tubes installed in the soil for geophysical soil moisture measurement; stream gaging and sampling sites; and staff gauges for measurement of stream stage. The schedule of monitoring will be as prescribed under Rule 2.05.6(3). The facilities will be visited monthly during high flow in the spring and quarterly at other times for the duration of the operations and reclamation period. Hydrologic data from the monitor sites will be coordinated with stream-flow and water quality monitoring performed at gaging stations upstream and downstream from the proposed permit area. Hydrologic data over the past water-year and agricultural production data over the past growing season will be reported annually to the regulatory agency on or before January 15 of the following year. Reporting will continue throughout the bonding period. • (5) (a) No permit or permit revision application for surface coal mining and reclamation operations shall be approved by the Division or Board unless the application demonstrates and the Division or Board finds in writing, on the basis of information set forth in the application, that: (i) (A) The proposed surface coal mining operations would (I) Not interrupt, discontinue, or preclude farming on an alluvial vallev floor, unless the oremining land use has been undeveloped range which is not significant to farming on the alluvial valley floor, or unless the Board finds upon the request of the applicant that the area of an affected alluvial valley floor is small and provides, or may provide, negligible support for production of one or more farms; or: (II) Not materially damage the quantity or quality of water in surface or ground water systems that supply those alluvial valley floor described in 2.06.8(5)(a)(i)(A) above. • 2.06-32