TITLE 62: MINING
CHAPTER I: DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES
PART 1795 SMALL OPERATOR ASSISTANCE
SECTION 1795.1 SCOPE AND PURPOSE


 

Section 1795.1  Scope and Purpose

 

a)         This Part comprises the Small Operator Assistance Program (SOAP) and establishes the procedures for providing assistance to eligible operators by the program administrator.

 

b)         The purpose of the program is to provide for eligible operators a determination of probable hydrologic consequences including the engineering analysis and designs necessary for the determination; cross-sections, maps and plans; geologic drilling and statement of results of test borings and samplings; archaeological and historical information collection and relevant plan preparation; pre-blast surveys and pre-blast survey reports; and site specific resource information collection and relevant plan preparation, which are required components of the permit application under 62 Ill. Adm. Code 1772 through 1785.

 

(Source:  Amended at 20 Ill. Reg. 2124, effective January 19, 1996)