TITLE 62: MINING CHAPTER I: DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES PART 1817 PERMANENT PROGRAM PERFORMANCE STANDARDS – UNDERGROUND MINING OPERATIONS The General Assembly's Illinois Administrative Code database includes only those rulemakings that have been permanently adopted. This menu will point out the Sections on which an emergency rule (valid for a maximum of 150 days, usually until replaced by a permanent rulemaking) exists. The emergency rulemaking is linked through the notation that follows the Section heading in the menu. View Entire Part Section 1817.11 Signs and Markers Section 1817.13 Casing and Sealing of Exposed Underground Openings: General Requirements Section 1817.14 Casing and Sealing of Underground Openings: Temporary Section 1817.15 Casing and Sealing of Underground Openings: Permanent Section 1817.21 Topsoil General Requirements (Repealed) Section 1817.22 Topsoil and Subsoil Section 1817.23 Topsoil: Storage (Repealed) Section 1817.24 Topsoil: Redistribution (Repealed) Section 1817.25 Topsoil: Nutrients and Soil Amendments (Repealed) Section 1817.41 Hydrologic Balance Protection Section 1817.42 Hydrologic Balance: Water Quality Standards and Effluent Limitations Section 1817.43 Diversions Section 1817.44 Hydrologic Balance: Stream Channel Diversions (Repealed) Section 1817.45 Hydrologic Balance: Sediment Control Measures Section 1817.46 Hydrologic Balance: Siltation Structures Section 1817.47 Hydrologic Balance: Discharge Structures Section 1817.48 Hydrologic Balance: Acid - forming and Toxic - forming Materials (Repealed) Section 1817.49 Impoundments Section 1817.50 Hydrologic Balance: Underground Mine Entry and Access Discharges (Repealed) Section 1817.52 Hydrologic Balance: Surface and Ground Water Monitoring (Repealed) Section 1817.53 Hydrologic Balance: Transfer of Wells (Repealed) Section 1817.55 Hydrologic Balance: Discharge of Water Into an Underground Section 1817.56 Post – Mining Rehabilitation of Sedimentation Ponds, Diversions, Impoundments and Treatment Facilities Section 1817.57 Hydrologic Balance: Stream Buffer Zones Section 1817.59 Coal Recovery Section 1817.61 Use of Explosives: General Requirements Section 1817.62 Use of Explosives: Pre-Blasting Survey Section 1817.64 Use of Explosives: General Performance Standards Section 1817.65 Use of Explosives: Surface Blasting Requirements (Repealed) Section 1817.66 Use of Explosives: Blasting Signs, Warnings, and Access Control Section 1817.67 Use of Explosives: Control of Adverse Effects Section 1817.68 Use of Explosives: Records of Blasting Operations Section 1817.71 Disposal of Excess Spoil: General Requirements Section 1817.72 Disposal of Excess Spoil: Valley Fills/Head-of-Hollow Fills Section 1817.73 Disposal of Underground Development Waste and Excess Spoil: Head-of-Hollow Fills (Repealed) Section 1817.74 Disposal of Excess Spoil: Durable Rock Fills Section 1817.75 Disposal of Excess Spoil: Preexisting Benches Section 1817.81 Coal Mine Waste: General Requirements Section 1817.82 Coal Processing Waste Banks: Site Inspection (Repealed) Section 1817.83 Coal Mine Waste: Refuse Piles Section 1817.84 Coal Mine Waste: Impounding Structures Section 1817.85 Coal Processing Waste Banks: Construction Requirements (Repealed) Section 1817.86 Coal Processing Waste: Burning (Repealed) Section 1817.87 Coal Mine Waste: Burning and Burned Waste Utilization Section 1817.88 Coal Processing Waste: Return to Underground Workings (Repealed) Section 1817.89 Disposal of Noncoal Mine Wastes Section 1817.91 Coal Processing Waste: Dams and Embankments: General Requirements (Repealed) Section 1817.92 Coal Processing Waste: Dams and Embankments: Site Preparation (Repealed) Section 1817.93 Coal Processing Waste: Dams and Embankments: Design and Construction (Repealed) Section 1817.94 Coal Processing Waste: Time Requirement for Completion of Covering (Repealed) Section 1817.95 Stabilization of Surface Areas Section 1817.97 Protection of Fish, Wildlife and Related Environmental Values Section 1817.99 Slides and Other Damage Section 1817.100 Contemporaneous Reclamation and Subsidence Control Section 1817.101 Backfilling and Grading: General Requirements Section 1817.102 Backfilling and Grading: General Grading Requirements Section 1817.103 Backfilling and Grading: Covering Coal and Acid- and Toxic - Forming Materials (Repealed) Section 1817.106 Backfilling and Grading: Previously Mined Areas Section 1817.107 Backfilling and Grading: Steep Slopes Section 1817.111 Revegetation: General Requirements Section 1817.112 Revegetation: Use of Introduced Species (Repealed) Section 1817.113 Revegetation: Timing Section 1817.114 Revegetation: Mulching and Other Soil Stabilizing Practices Section 1817.115 Revegetation: Grazing (Repealed) Section 1817.116 Revegetation: Standards for Success Section 1817.117 Revegetation: Tree, Shrub, and Herbaceous Vegetation Section 1817.121 Subsidence Control Section 1817.122 Subsidence Control: Public Notice Section 1817.124 Subsidence Control: Surface Owner Protections (Repealed) Section 1817.126 Subsidence Control: Buffer Zones (Repealed) Section 1817.131 Cessation of Operations: Temporary Section 1817.132 Cessation of Operations: Permanent Section 1817.133 Post-Mining Land Capability Section 1817.150 Roads: General Section 1817.151 Primary roads Section 1817.180 Utility Installations Section 1817.181 Support Facilities Section 1817.182 Minor Underground Mine Facilities Not at or Adjacent to the Processing or Preparation Facility or Area Section 1817.190 Affected Acreage Map

AUTHORITY: Implementing and authorized by the Surface Coal Mining Land Conservation and Reclamation Act [225 ILCS 720].

SOURCE: Adopted at 4 Ill. Reg. 37, p. 1, effective June 1, 1982; amended at 6 Ill. Reg. 1, effective June 1, 1982; amended at 6 Ill. Reg. 15024, effective December 30, 1982; codified at 8 Ill. Reg. 8230; amended at 9 Ill. Reg. 13315, effective October 10, 1985; amended at 10 Ill. Reg. 9606, effective July 1, 1986; amended at 11 Ill. Reg. 8250, effective July 1, 1987; amended at 14 Ill. Reg. 11855, effective January 1, 1991; amended at 15 Ill. Reg. 17239, effective January 1, 1992; amended at 17 Ill. Reg. 11031, effective July 1, 1993; amended at 20 Ill. Reg. 1993, effective January 19, 1996; amended at 22 Ill. Reg. 20197, effective November 5, 1998; amended at 24 Ill. Reg. 5938, effective March 21, 2000; amended at 26 Ill. Reg. 4252, effective March 6, 2002; amended at 29 Ill. Reg. 9829, effective June 27, 2005; amended at 47 Ill. Reg. 2390, effective February 3, 2023.