2009-09-14_GENERAL DOCUMENTS - C1981019

• Permit No: C1981019
• IBM Index Class Name: GENERAL DOCUMENTS
• Doc Date: 9/14/2009
• Doc Name: Proposed Decision & Findings of Compliance for RN5
• Permit Index Doc Type: Findings
• Email Name: JRS
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

F. Inconsistent Operations .................................................................................... 32
G. Performance Bond ............................................................................................ 32
H. Prime Farmland & Alluvial Valley Floors ....................................................... 32
1. Land Use ............................................................................................................ 33
J. Specific Approvals ............................................................................................ 33
K. Endangered or Threatened Species .................................................................. 33
L. Fees33
Section B - Findings and Specific Approvals Required by Rule 4 ............................................... 33
I. Roads - Rule 4.03 .......................................................................................................... 33
A. Haul Roads - Rule 4.03.1 ................................................................................. 33
B. Access Road - Rule 4.03.2 ............................................................................... 34
C. Light Use Roads - Rule 4.03.3 ......................................................................... 34
D. In-Pit Haul Roads ............................................................................................. 34
II. Support Facilities - Rule 4.04 ....................................................................................... 34
III. Hydrologic Balance - Rule 4.05 .................................................................................. 35
A. Water Quality Standards and Effluent Limitations - Rule 4.05.2 .................... 35
B. Diversions and Conveyance of Overland Flow - Rule 4.05.3 .......................... 35
C. Stream Channel Diversions - Rule 4.05.4 ........................................................ 36
D. Sedimentation Control Measures, Ponds and Discharge Structures - Rules
4.05.5,6&7 ............................................................................................. 37
E. Acid-forming and Toxic-forming Spoil - Rule 4.05.8 ..................................... 37
F. Impoundments - Rule 4.05.9 ............................................................................ 38
G. Ground and Surface Water Monitoring - Rule 4.05.13 .................................... 38
H. Transfer of Wells - Rule 4.05.14 ...................................................................... 38
I. Water Rights and Replacement - Rule 4.05.15 ................................................. 38
J. Discharge of Water into an Underground Mine - Rule 4.05-16 ........................ 38
K. Stream Buffer Zones - Rule 4.05.18 ................................................................ 39
L. Probable Hydrologic Consequences ................................................................. 39
Backfill and Excess Spoil Groundwater ........................................................................... 45
Alluvial Groundwater ....................................................................................................... 45
IV. Topsoil - Rules 2.04.9, 2.05.3(s), 2.05.4(2)(d) and 4.06 ............................................ 46
A. The Soil Resource ............................................................................................ 46
B. Topsoil Salvage Operations ............................................................................. 47
C. Topsoil Redistribution ...................................................................................... 48
D. Specific Findings Required by Rule 4.06 ........................................................ 49
V. Sealing of Drilled Holes and Underground Openings - Rule 4.07 .............................. 49
VI. Use of Explosives - Rule 4.08 .................................................................................... 50
VII. Disposal of Excess Spoil - Rule 4.09 ........................................................................ 50
VIII. Coal Mine Waste Banks - Rule 4.10 ........................................................................ 52
IX. Coal Mine Waste - Rule 4.11 ..................................................................................... 52
X. Slides and Damage - Rule 4.12 .................................................................................... 53
XI. Contemporaneous Reclamation - Rule 4.13 ............................................................... 53
XII. Backfilling and Grading - Rule 4.14 ......................................................................... 53
A. Operations and Reclamation Plans .................................................................. 53
Proposed Decision and Findings of Compliance 14 September 2009
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