---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 C.F.R. § 784.23"
title: "30"
number: "784.23"
heading: "Operation plan: Maps and plans."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/30/784.23"
---

# §784.23. Operation plan: Maps and plans.


Each application shall contain maps and plans as follows:

- (a) The maps, plans and cross-sections shall show the underground mining activities to be conducted, the lands to be affected throughout the operation, and any change in a facility or feature to be caused by the proposed operations, if the facility or feature was shown under 30 CFR [783.24](/cfr/30/783.24.md) and [783.25](/cfr/30/783.25.md).
- (b) The following shall be shown for the proposed permit area:
  - (1) Buildings, utility corridors, and facilities to be used;
  - (2) The area of land to be affected within the proposed permit area, according to the sequence of mining and reclamation;
  - (3) Each area of land for which a performance bond or other equivalent guarantee will be posted under subchapter J of this chapter;
  - (4) Each coal storage, cleaning and loading area;
  - (5) Each topsoil, spoil, coal preparation waste, underground development waste, and non-coal waste storage area;
  - (6) Each water diversion, collection, conveyance, treatment, storage and discharge facility to be used;
  - (7) Each source of waste and each waste disposal facility relating to coal processing or pollution control;
  - (8) Each facility to be used to protect and enhance fish and wildlife related environmental values;
  - (9) Each explosive storage and handling facility;
  - (10) Location of each sedimentation pond, permanent water impoundment, coal processing waste bank, and coal processing waste dam and embankment, in accordance with [30 CFR 784.16](/cfr/30/784.16.md) and disposal areas for underground development waste and excess spoil, in accordance with [30 CFR 784.19](/cfr/30/784.19.md);
  - (11) Each profile, at cross-sections specified by the regulatory authority, of the anticipated final surface configuration to be achieved for the affected areas;
  - (12) Location of each water and subsidence monitoring point;
  - (13) Location of each facility that will remain on the proposed permit area as a permanent feature, after the completion of underground mining activities.
- (c) Except as provided in §§ [784.16(a)(2)](/cfr/30/784.16.md?p=a-2), [784.16(a)(3)](/cfr/30/784.16.md?p=a-3), [784.19](/cfr/30/784.19.md), [817.71(b)](/cfr/30/817.71.md?p=b), [817.73(c)](/cfr/30/817.73.md?p=c), [817.74(c)](/cfr/30/817.74.md?p=c) and [817.81(c)](/cfr/30/817.81.md?p=c) of this chapter, cross sections, maps and plans required under paragraphs [(b)(4)](#b-4), [(5)](#b-5), [(6)](#b-6), [(10)](#b-10) and [(11)](#b-11) of this section shall be prepared by, or under the direction of, and certified by a qualified, registered, professional engineer, a professional geologist, or in any State which authorizes land surveyors to prepare and certify such cross sections, maps and plans, a qualified, registered, professional, land surveyor, with assistance from experts in related fields such as landscape architecture.

## Notes

### Amendments

[44 FR 15366, Mar. 13, 1979; 44 FR 49686, Aug. 24, 1979, as amended at 45 FR 51550, Aug. 4, 1980; 48 FR 14822, Apr. 5, 1983; 50 FR 16199, Apr. 24, 1985; 56 FR 65635, Dec. 17, 1991; 73 FR 75881, Dec. 12, 2008; 79 FR 76230, Dec. 22, 2014; 81 FR 93355, Dec. 20, 2016; 82 FR 54958, Nov. 17, 2017]

### Authority

Authority: 30 U.S.C. 1201 et seq. and 16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.

### Source

Source: 44 FR 15366, Mar. 13, 1979, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[44 FR 15366, Mar. 13, 1979; 44 FR 49686, Aug. 24, 1979, as amended at 45 FR 51550, Aug. 4, 1980; 48 FR 14822, Apr. 5, 1983; 50 FR 16199, Apr. 24, 1985; 56 FR 65635, Dec. 17, 1991; 73 FR 75881, Dec. 12, 2008; 79 FR 76230, Dec. 22, 2014; 81 FR 93355, Dec. 20, 2016; 82 FR 54958, Nov. 17, 2017]