The Division shall develop a checklist to be completed by applicants for a permit to engage in a mining operation. The information requested by the checklist must include:
1. Information relating to the plan for reclamation, including:
- (a) The proposed subsequent use of the land after the mining operation is completed;
- (b) The proposed schedule of reclamation that will be followed;
- (c) The proposed topography of the land after the mining operation is completed;
- (d) The treatment of slopes created or affected by the mining operation;
- (e) The proposed use of impoundments;
- (f) The kinds of access roads to be built and the manner of reclamation of road sites;
- (g) The methods of drainage that will be used during the mining operation and reclamation;
- (h) The revegetation of the land;
- (i) The monitoring and maintenance of the reclaimed land that will be performed by the operator;
- (j) The reclamation that will be necessary as a result of instream mining;
- (k) The effect that reclamation will have on future mining in that area;
- (l) The effect of the reclamation on public safety; and
- (m) A manual for the operation and maintenance of the fluid management system.
- 2. Information relating to the mining operation and maps of the area which is required by the regulations adopted by the Commission pursuant to NRS 519A.160.
- 3. Other information as requested by the Administrator which the Administrator determines is pertinent to the reclamation activities of the mining operation.
(Added to NRS by 1989, 1285; A 2025, 1323)