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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".05" citation="COMAR 26.20.13.05" title_num="26" subtitle_num="20" chapter_num="13" heading="Hydrologic Balance: General Requirements.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>In this regulation, an owner of interest in real property includes an owner, a renter, a tenant, or a lessee of real property.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>Operations shall be conducted to minimize water pollution, and, where necessary, treatment methods shall be used to control water pollution.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>Acceptable practices to control and minimize water pollution include but are not limited to:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Stabilizing disturbed areas through land shaping;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Diverting runoff;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Achieving quickly germinating and growing stands of temporary vegetation;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>Regulating channel velocity of water;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>Lining drainage channels with rock or vegetation;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(6)">
      <text>Mulching;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(7)">
      <text>Selectively placing and sealing acid-forming and toxic-forming materials;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(8)">
      <text>Designing mines to prevent gravity drainage of acid waters;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(9)">
      <text>Sealing;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(10)">
      <text>Controlling subsidence; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(11)">
      <text>Preventing acid mine drainage.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="D.">
    <text>The permittee shall promptly replace the water supply of an owner of interest in real property who obtains all or part of the owner's supply of water for domestic, agricultural, industrial, or other legitimate use from an underground or surface source that is contaminated, diminished, or interrupted proximately resulting from underground mining activities.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="E.">
    <text>Upon agreement by the permittee and the water supply owner, the obligation to pay such operation and maintenance costs may be satisfied by a one time payment in an amount which covers the present worth of the increased annual operation and maintenance costs for a period agreed to by the permittee and the water supply owner.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="F.">
    <text>If the affected water supply was not needed for the land use in existence at the time of loss, contamination, or diminution, and if the supply is not needed to achieve the postmining land use, replacement requirements may be satisfied by demonstrating that a suitable alternative water source is available and could feasibly be developed. If this approach is selected, written concurrence shall be obtained from the water supply owner.</text>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>