Utah Admin. Code R307-205-7 - Mining Activities
(1) Fugitive dust,
construction activities, and roadways associated with mining activities are
regulated under the provisions of R307-205-7 and not by
R307-205-5 and
6.
(2) Any person who owns or
operates a mining operation shall minimize fugitive dust as an integral part of
site preparation, mining activities, and reclamation operations.
(3) The fugitive dust control measures to be
used may include:
(a) periodic watering of
unpaved roads,
(b) chemical
stabilization of unpaved roads,
(c)
paving of roads,
(d) prompt removal
of coal, rock minerals, soil, and other dust-forming debris from roads and
frequent scraping and compaction of unpaved roads to stabilize the road
surface,
(e) restricting the speed
of vehicles in and around the mining operation,
(f) revegetating, mulching, or otherwise
stabilizing the surface of all areas adjoining roads that are a source of
fugitive dust,
(g) restricting the
travel of vehicles on other than established roads,
(h) enclosing, covering, watering, or
otherwise treating loaded haul trucks and railroad cars, to minimize loss of
material to wind and spillage,
(i)
substitution of conveyor systems for haul trucks and covering of conveyor
systems when conveyed loads are subject to wind erosion,
(j) minimizing the area of disturbed
land,
(k) prompt revegetation of
regraded lands,
(l) planting of
special windbreak vegetation at critical points in the permit area,
(m) control of dust from drilling, using
water sprays, hoods, dust collectors or other controls approved by the
director,
(n) restricting the areas
to be blasted at any one time,
(o)
reducing the period of time between initially disturbing the soil and
revegetating or other surface stabilization,
(p) restricting fugitive dust at spoil and
coal transfer and loading points,
(q) control of dust from storage piles
through use of enclosures, covers, or stabilization and other equivalent
methods or techniques as approved by the director, or
(r) other techniques as determined necessary
by the director.
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