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A permit application to expand a 5-acre mine in Conway to nearly five times the size was submitted by a brother duo in April 2021. DHEC OKs permit for mine expansion near Horry County nature preserve.
The application is reviewed for completeness, a site visit is scheduled. The application is reviewed for adequacy to determine if there are deficiencies. (Deficiencies are addressed as draft permit conditions.) The application materials, along with a report and draft permit conditions, will be sent to the other natural resource agencies for review.
The resulting investigation cleared the DEQ of any wrongdoing and the consideration of the permit application was able to proceed. On December 14, 2007, the DEQ announced that it would issue permits for mining to take place at the Eagle project.
As part of the life cycle of a surface coal mine, completed mine areas must undergo rehabilitation.When mining ends, operators must restore the land to its approximate original contour (AOC) or leave the land graded and suitable for a “higher and better” post-mining land use (PMLU) that has been approved as part of the original mining permit application.
The mining project is moving forward as the National Park Service seeks designation of the ... who said the company violated state laws while collecting soil samples for its permit application. ...
The 1981 mining permit gave the state the right to acquire the quarry site at no cost “at the end of 50 years from the date quarrying commences or 10 years after quarrying operations have ceased ...
SMCRA requires that companies obtain permits before conducting surface mining. Permit applications must describe what the premining environmental conditions and land use are, what the proposed mining and reclamation will be, how the mine will meet the SMCRA performance standards, and how the land will be used after reclamation is complete.
Years long negotiations are reaching a critical point where the authority will soon need to begin accepting mining permit applications, adding to worries over the potential impacts on sparsely ...