Subchapter E - SURFACE COAL MINES: MINIMUM ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION PERFORMANCE STANDARDS

  1. § 87.91 - Requirements
  2. § 87.92 - Signs and markers
  3. § 87.93 - Casing and sealing of drilled holes
  4. § 87.94 - Reserved
  5. § 87.95 - Reserved
  6. § 87.96 - Topsoil: general requirements
  7. § 87.97 - Topsoil: removal
  8. § 87.98 - Topsoil: storage
  9. § 87.99 - Topsoil: redistribution
  10. § 87.100 - Topsoil: nutrients and soil amendments
  11. § 87.101 - Hydrologic balance: general requirements
  12. § 87.102 - Hydrologic balance: effluent standards
  13. § 87.103 - Precipitation event exemption
  14. § 87.104 - Stream channel diversions
  15. § 87.105 - Hydrologic balance: diversions
  16. § 87.106 - Hydrologic balance: sediment control measures
  17. § 87.107 - Hydrologic balance: treatment facilities
  18. § 87.108 - Hydrologic balance: sedimentation ponds
  19. § 87.109 - Hydrologic balance: discharge structures
  20. § 87.110 - Hydrologic balance: acid-forming and toxic-forming spoil
  21. § 87.111 - Hydrologic balance: impoundments
  22. § 87.112 - Hydrologic balance: dams, ponds, embankments and impoundments-design, construction and maintenance
  23. § 87.113 - Hydrologic balance: coal processing waste dams and embankments
  24. § 87.114 - Reserved
  25. § 87.115 - Hydrologic balance: protection of groundwater recharge capacity
  26. § 87.116 - Hydrologic balance: groundwater monitoring
  27. § 87.117 - Hydrologic balance: surface water monitoring
  28. § 87.118 - Reserved
  29. § 87.119 - Reserved
  30. § 87.119a - Hydrologic balance: water rights and replacement
  31. § 87.120 - Hydrologic balance: discharge of water into an underground mine
  32. § 87.121 - Hydrologic balance: permanent postmining renovation of sedimentation ponds, diversions, impoundments and treatment facilities
  33. § 87.122 - Reserved
  34. § 87.123 - Utilization and conservation of coal
  35. § 87.124 - Use of explosives: general requirements
  36. § 87.125 - Use of explosives: preblasting survey
  37. § 87.126 - Use of explosives: public notice of blasting schedule
  38. § 87.127 - Use of explosives: surface blasting requirements
  39. § 87.129 - Use of explosives: records of blasting operations
  40. § 87.131 - Disposal of excess spoil
  41. § 87.135 - Protection of underground mining
  42. § 87.136 - Disposal of noncoal wastes
  43. § 87.137 - Air resources protection
  44. § 87.138 - Protection of fish, wildlife and related environmental values
  45. § 87.139 - Slides and other damages
  46. § 87.140 - Contemporaneous reclamation
  47. § 87.141 - Backfilling and grading: general requirements
  48. § 87.142 - Backfilling and grading: reaffecting previously mined lands
  49. § 87.143 - Reserved
  50. § 87.144 - Backfilling and grading: final slopes
  51. § 87.145 - Backfilling and grading: covering coal and acid-forming and toxic-forming materials
  52. § 87.146 - Regrading or stabilizing rills and gullies
  53. § 87.147 - Revegetation: general requirements
  54. § 87.148 - Revegetation: timing
  55. § 87.149 - Revegetation: introduced species
  56. § 87.150 - Revegetation: agriculture crops
  57. § 87.151 - Revegetation: species
  58. § 87.152 - Revegetation: seedbed preparation
  59. § 87.153 - Revegetation: mulching
  60. § 87.154 - Reserved
  61. § 87.155 - Revegetation: standards for successful revegetation
  62. § 87.156 - Revegetation: techniques and frequency of measurement
  63. § 87.157 - Cessation of operations: temporary
  64. § 87.158 - Cessation of operations: permanent
  65. § 87.159 - Postmining land use
  66. § 87.160 - Haul roads and access roads
  67. § 87.161 - Reserved
  68. § 87.162 - Reserved
  69. § 87.163 - Reserved
  70. § 87.164 - Reserved
  71. § 87.165 - Reserved
  72. § 87.166 - Haul roads and access roads: restoration
  73. § 87.167 - Reserved
  74. § 87.168 - Reserved
  75. § 87.169 - Reserved
  76. § 87.170 - Reserved
  77. § 87.171 - Reserved
  78. § 87.172 - Other transportation facilities
  79. § 87.173 - Support facilities and utility installations
  80. § 87.174 - Steep slope operations
  81. § 87.175 - Variance to contouring
  82. § 87.176 - Auger mining
  83. § 87.177 - Prime farmland: special requirements
  84. § 87.178 - Prime farmland: soil removal
  85. § 87.179 - Prime farmland: soil stockpiling
  86. § 87.180 - Prime farmland: soil replacement
  87. § 87.181 - Prime farmland: revegetation

Notes

This subchapter cited in 25 Pa. Code § 86.38 (relating to criteria for approval or denial: existing structures); 25 Pa. Code § 87.1 (relating to definitions); 25 Pa. Code § 87.63 (relating to existing structures); 25 Pa. Code § 87.69 (relating to protection of hydrologic balance); 25 Pa. Code § 87.201 (relating to scope); 25 Pa. Code § 87.204 (relating to application for authorization); 25 Pa. Code § 87.205 (relating to approval or denial); and 25 Pa. Code § 87.206 (relating to operational requirements).

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