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Surface Coal Mines: Minimum Environmental Protection Performance Standards

Surface Coal Mines: Minimum Environmental Protection Performance Standards

87.91Requirements.87.92Signs and markers.87.93Casing and sealing of drilled holes.87.94[Reserved].87.95[Reserved].87.96Topsoil: general requirements.87.97Topsoil: removal.87.98Topsoil: storage.87.99Topsoil: redistribution.87.100Topsoil: nutrients and soil amendments.87.101Hydrologic balance: general requirements.87.102Hydrologic balance: effluent standards.87.103Precipitation event exemption.87.104Stream channel diversions.87.105Hydrologic balance: diversions.87.106Hydrologic balance: sediment control measures.87.107Hydrologic balance: treatment facilities.87.108Hydrologic balance: sedimentation ponds.87.109Hydrologic balance: discharge structures.87.110Hydrologic balance: acid-forming and toxic-forming spoil.87.111Hydrologic balance: impoundments.87.112Hydrologic balance: dams, ponds, embankments and impoundments—design, construction and maintenance.87.113Hydrologic balance: coal processing waste dams and embankments.87.114[Reserved].87.115Hydrologic balance: protection of groundwater recharge capacity.87.116Hydrologic balance: groundwater monitoring.87.117Hydrologic balance: surface water monitoring.87.118[Reserved].87.119[Reserved].87.119aHydrologic balance: water rights and replacement.87.120Hydrologic balance: discharge of water into an underground mine.87.121Hydrologic balance: permanent postmining renovation of sedimentation ponds, diversions, impoundments and treatment facilities.87.122[Reserved].87.123Utilization and conservation of coal.87.124Use of explosives: general requirements.87.125Use of explosives: preblasting survey.87.126Use of explosives: public notice of blasting schedule.87.127Use of explosives: surface blasting requirements.87.129Use of explosives: records of blasting operations.87.131Disposal of excess spoil.87.135Protection of underground mining.87.136Disposal of noncoal wastes.87.137Air resources protection.87.138Protection of fish, wildlife and related environmental values.87.139Slides and other damages.87.140Contemporaneous reclamation.87.141Backfilling and grading: general requirements.87.142Backfilling and grading: reaffecting previously mined lands.87.143[Reserved].87.144Backfilling and grading: final slopes.87.145Backfilling and grading: covering coal and acid-forming and toxic-forming materials.87.146Regrading or stabilizing rills and gullies.87.147Revegetation: general requirements.87.148Revegetation: timing.87.149Revegetation: introduced species.87.150Revegetation: agriculture crops.87.151Revegetation: species.87.152Revegetation: seedbed preparation.87.153Revegetation: mulching.87.154[Reserved].87.155Revegetation: standards for successful revegetation.87.156Revegetation: techniques and frequency of measurement.87.157Cessation of operations: temporary.87.158Cessation of operations: permanent.87.159Postmining land use.87.160Haul roads and access roads.87.161[Reserved].87.162[Reserved].87.163[Reserved].87.164[Reserved].87.165[Reserved].87.166Haul roads and access roads: restoration.87.167[Reserved].87.168[Reserved].87.169[Reserved].87.170[Reserved].87.171[Reserved].87.172Other transportation facilities.87.173Support facilities and utility installations.87.174Steep slope operations.87.175Variance to contouring.87.176Auger mining.87.177Prime farmland: special requirements.87.178Prime farmland: soil removal.87.179Prime farmland: soil stockpiling.87.180Prime farmland: soil replacement.87.181Prime farmland: revegetation.