N.M. Admin. Code § 19.8.8.813 - CROSS SECTIONS, MAPS AND PLANS
The application shall include cross sections, maps and plans showing:
A. elevations and locations of
test borings and core samplings;
B.
elevations and locations of monitoring stations used to gather data for water
quality and quantity, fish and wildlife, and air quality if required, in
preparation of the application;
C.
nature, depth, and thickness of the coal seams to be mined, any coal or rider
seams above the seam to be mined, each stratum of the overburden and the
stratum immediately below the lowest coal seam to be mined;
D. all coal crop lines and the strike and dip
of the coal to be mined within the proposed permit area;
E. location and extent of known workings of
active, inactive, or abandoned underground mines, including mine openings to
the surface within the proposed permit and adjacent areas;
F. location and extent of sub-surface water,
if encountered, within the proposed permit or adjacent area;
G. location of surface water bodies such as
streams, lakes, ponds, springs, constructed or natural drains and irrigation
ditches within the proposed permit and adjacent areas;
H. location and extent of existing or
previously surface mined areas within the proposed permit area;
I. location and dimensions of existing areas
of spoil, waste, and non-coal waste disposal, dams, embankments, other
impoundments and water treatment and air pollution control facilities within
the proposed permit area;
J.
location and depth if available, of gas and oil wells within the proposed
permit area and water wells in the permit and adjacent areas;
K. the existing land surface configuration of
the proposed permit area on contour maps of a maximum of 5 foot contour
intervals;
L. Maps, plans, and cross
sections included in a permit application which are required by this section
shall be prepared by or under the direction of and certified by a qualified
professional geologist or a registered professional engineer, with assistance
from experts in related fields such as land surveying reclamation or mined land
rehabilitation and shall be updated as required by the
director.
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