R11-2-501. Mining Unit Reclamation Plan Content

A. In addition to the proposed reclamation measures that are necessary to achieve the post-mining land use found under A.R.S. §§ 27-971(B)(9)(a) through (d), the reclamation plan shall include procedures to aid in the development of vegetation consistent with the proposed post-mining land use objective for surface disturbances where the post-mining land use objective is grazing, wildlife habitat, or forestry. The type, density, and diversity of vegetation proposed shall depend on what is technically and economically practicable given site-specific characteristics such as climate and the availability and quality of soil. B. Maps of the existing or proposed surface disturbances submitted pursuant to A.R.S. § 27-971(B)(8) for mining units shall indicate the following: 1. Existing and proposed post-mining and post-reclamation physical topography; 2. Natural features, including surface water; 3. Surface disturbances, pits, excavations, and building sites; 4. Development rock piles, tailings dams and impoundments, heaps for leaching, spoil, soil or growth media storage piles, overburden stockpiles, and other piles of unconsolidated material; 5. Solution ponds, settling ponds, and non-tailings impoundments; 6. Roads, buildings, structures, and stationary equipment; 7. Final post-mining land use objectives for each portion of the surface disturbance; and 8. Boundaries of the mining unit.