Ill. Admin. Code tit. 62, § 1783.25 - Cross-Sections, Maps, and Plans
a)
The application shall include cross-sections, maps, and plans showing:
1) Elevations and locations of test borings
and core samplings from the permit and shadow areas;
2) Elevations and locations of monitoring
stations used to gather data on water quality and quantity, fish and wildlife,
and air quality, if required, in preparation of the application;
3) 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;
4) All coal crop
lines and the strike and dip of the coal to be mined within the proposed permit
area;
5) Location and extent of
known workings of active, inactive, or abandoned underground mines, including
mine openings to the surface within the proposed permit, shadow and adjacent
areas;
6) Location and extent of
subsurface water, if encountered, within the proposed permit or adjacent areas,
including, but not limited to areal and vertical distribution of aquifers, and
portrayal of seasonal differences of head in different aquifers on
cross-sections and contour maps;
7)
Location and extent of surface water bodies such as streams, lakes, ponds,
springs, constructed or natural drains, and irrigation ditches within the
proposed permit, shadow and adjacent areas;
8) Location and extent of existing or
previously surface-mined areas within the proposed permit area;
9) Location and dimensions of existing areas
of spoil, waste, coal development waste, and noncoal waste disposal, dams,
embankments, other impoundments, and water treatment and air pollution control
facilities within the proposed permit area;
10) Location, and depth if available, of gas
and oil wells within the proposed permit area and water wells in the permit,
shadow area and adjacent areas.
b) Maps, plans, and cross-sections included
in a permit application and required by this Section shall be prepared by, or
under the direction of, and sealed by a qualified registered professional
engineer licensed under the Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989 [225
ILCS 325 ] or a registered professional land surveyor licensed under the
Illinois Professional Land Surveyor Act of 1989 [225 ILCS 330 ], with
assistance from experts in related fields such as geology and landscape
architecture and shall be updated as required by the Department.
Notes
Amended at 20 Ill. Reg. 2160, effective January 19, 1996
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