N.M. Code R. § 19.8.20.2079 – Support Facilities and Utility Installations

A. Support facilities required for, or used incidentally to, the operation of the mine, including, but not limited to, mine buildings, coal loading facilities at, or near, the mine site, coal storage facilities, equipment storage facilities, fuel storage facilities, chemical and lubricant storage facilities, fan buildings, hoist buildings, preparation plants, sheds, shops, and other buildings, shall be designed, constructed or reconstructed, and located to prevent or control erosion and siltation, water pollution and damage to public or private property. Support facilities shall be designed, constructed or reconstructed, maintained, and used in a manner which prevents to the extent possible using the best technology currently available damage to fish, wildlife, and related environmental values and additional contributions of suspended solids to streamflow outside the permit area. Any such contributions shall not be in excess of limitations of state or federal law.
B. All surface coal mining operations shall be conducted in a manner which minimizes damage, destruction, or disruption of services provided by oil, gas, and water wells, oil, gas, and coal-slurry pipelines; railroads; electric and telephone lines; and water and sewage lines which pass over, under or through the permit area, unless otherwise approved by the owner of those facilities and the director.
[11-29-97; Rn, 19 NMAC 8.2.20.2077, 12-15-99; 19.8.20.2079 NMAC - Rn, 19 NMAC 8.2.20.2079, 9-29-2000]
HISTORY OF 19.8.20 NMAC:
Pre-NMAC History:
The material in Part 20 was derived from that previously filed with the State Records Center and Archives under:
SB 73-1 Regulations of the State of New Mexico Coal Surfacemining Commission, filed 1-10-73 and its amendment filed 8-4-76
SB 78-1 (Rule 78-1) Regulations of the State of New Mexico Coal Surfacemining Commission, filed 8-31-78
SB 79-1 (Rule 79-1) New Mexico Coal Surfacemining Regulations, filed 7-11-79
CSMC Rule 80-1 (Rule 80-1) Surface Coal Mining Regulations, filed 9-24-80; and all amendments to CSMC Rule 80-1, filed 7-29-82, 11-10-83, 3-5-84, 7-19-84, filed 8-6-84, 8-23-84, 3-28-89, 6-15-90, 9-18-90, 2-15-91, 5-8-91, 8-26-91, 10-4-91, 7-28-92, 1-25-93, 11-1-94, 3-10-95, 4-12-95, 12-21-95.
Other History:
Renumbered and reformatted CSMC 80-1 (filed 9-24-80), to 19 NMAC 8.2 Coal Surface Mining, effective 11-29-97.
Renumbered 19 NMAC 8.2 Subpart 20 Performance Standards - Surface Coal Mining Operations (filed 11-13-97), to 19.8.20 NMAC Performance Standards - Surface Coal Mining Operations, effective 09-29-2000.