R307-205-7. Mining Activities

(1) Fugitive dust, construction activities, and roadways associated with mining activities are regulated under Section R307-205-7 and not by Sections R307-205-5 and R307-205-6. (2) Any person who owns or operates a mining operation shall minimize fugitive dust as an integral part of site preparation, mining activities, and reclamation operations. (3) The fugitive dust control measures to be used may include: (a) periodic watering of unpaved roads; (b) chemical stabilization of unpaved roads; (c) paving of roads; (d) prompt removal of coal, rock minerals, soil, and other dust-forming debris from roads and frequent scraping and compaction of unpaved roads to stabilize the road surface; (e) restricting the speed of vehicles in and around the mining operation; (f) revegetating, mulching, or otherwise stabilizing the surface of all areas adjoining roads that are a source of fugitive dust; (g) restricting the travel of vehicles on other than established roads; (h) enclosing, covering, watering, or otherwise treating loaded haul trucks and railroad cars, to minimize loss of material to wind and spillage; (i) substitution of conveyor systems for haul trucks and covering of conveyor systems when conveyed loads are subject to wind erosion; (j) minimizing the area of disturbed land; (k) prompt revegetation of regraded lands; (l) planting of special windbreak vegetation at critical points in the permit area; (m) control of dust from drilling, using water sprays, hoods, dust collectors, or other controls approved by the director; (n) restricting the areas to be blasted at any one time; (o) reducing the period between initially disturbing the soil and revegetating or other surface stabilization; (p) restricting fugitive dust at spoil and coal transfer and loading points; (q) control of dust from storage piles through use of enclosures, covers, or stabilization and other equivalent methods or techniques as approved by the director; or (r) other techniques as determined necessary by the director.