PERMFILE136024

• Permit No: M1977247
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 3/14/1979
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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~` Baseline Data
A baseline data Program eras initiated at the Coaldale quarry
in 1973-7h. In subsequence, climatological information was
' collected, soils and overburden analyses made, vegetation in-
vontories taken, and animal use surveys develoned. No plans
were made for an environmental monitorinP system (req~xired in
some states).
Generally the baseline data provides the measure of changes
taking place in the f~zture or through comparison that chances
are minimal or non-existent, Documentation of conditions during,
and follovring mine operations, therefore, are sir;nificant only
to the degree they can be compared to pre-mining conditions,z
/- In the Coaldale quarry instance.minin¢ has been an established
f land use on much area since '197. }fence, many chan~As have
already taken place,
'Phe follo~•iin;? statement summarizes the i.mnnrtanr_e of and
special consir]erations that need to be gi,~cn t~ designing an
on~*oing baseline data collection nreRram or ~nvirarLmental ~~nn-
itorinr* s,ystem:3 •
" .. basnlin~ studies lnclu~ling environmPn~~l ionitor-
in~ and the continuing, monitoring programs required through
reso~irce development and the reclamation a.nd restoration
phase is part of the individual company environmental
strategy plan that mist be develoned,,, to comply with
existing rernilations,,,. One monitor plan format glues not
Tit highly variable geologic, hydrologic, ve~etati~~e, and
atmospheric conditions of differing mineral situations.
"Inventories,,, must be 'prioritized' depend!;nt ~rpon
the geograFhic area, the geology, hydrology, and climate
of, the area conc=rued and the importance placed on indi-
_ • vidual items by the reviewing aPancios,"