# COMAR Title 26 — Department of the Environment

## Subtitle 20 — Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation Under Federally Approved Program

### Chapter 24 — Special Performance Standards

#### Regulation .05 Coal Preparation Plants and Associated Facilities.

*COMAR 26.20.24.05*

Each person who operates a coal preparation plant and associated facilities, as defined in COMAR 26.20.01, shall obtain a permit to conduct those operations and otherwise comply with, at a minimum, the Regulatory Program requirements related to:

A. Signs and markers for the coal processing plant, coal processing waste disposal area, and water treatment facilities;

B. Roads, transport, and associated structures;

C. Stream or channel realignment;

D. Sediment control structures, and all discharges from disturbed areas;

E. Permanent impoundments associated with coal preparation plants, and dams constructed of or impounding coal processing waste;

F. Use of water wells, and provisions for protection of water rights;

G. Disposal of coal processing waste, solid waste, and any excavated materials;

H. Discharge structures for diversions and sediment control structures;

I. Air pollution control measures associated with fugitive dust emissions;

J. Protection of fish, wildlife, and related environmental values;

K. Slide areas and other surface areas in general;

L. Adverse effects upon or resulting from nearby underground coal mining activities;

M. Reclamation, including proper topsoil handling procedures, revegetation, and abandonment;

N. Conveyors, buildings, storage bins or stockpiles, water treatment facilities, water storage facilities, and any other related structure or system;

O. Prime farmland.