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GIS for Coal Mine Site Permitting and Regulatory Enforcement

Daniel Kestner, Mapping SupervisorVirginia Dept. of Mines, Minerals and Energy

Div. Of Mined Land Reclamation

Presented at 2007 ESRI International User Conference

Session 298: Coal Mine Site Permitting, Reclamation, and Remediation


Introduction

• Utilization of Geospatial technology in Virginia’s coal program and it’s use in permitting and enforcement.

• Examples of how GIS is used in permitting and enforcement of coal mining.


• Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement’s (OSMRE) Technical Innovation and Professional Services (TIPS) and their relationship with Virginia Dept. of Mines, Minerals and Energy (DMME)– Training– Hardware– Software

• Surface Mining Control & Reclamation Act (SMCRA) of 1977 is the “common” bond for States, Tribes and Federal regulatory coal programs in the United States.

Intro - The Particulars


Virginia’s Coal

• Active Coalfield –Southwest Virginia

• Abandoned Mined Lands in all 3 coal basins

Virginia’s Coalfields

We are Virginia TechCoal Surface Mining Operation (CSMO) Permitting in Virginia

• Electronic Permitting (EP) Application• Contains submission of digital maps from applicants• Contains submission of tabular data fields(.mdb)• Location-Based Information –

Coordinate Pairs to map features• Various review disciplines have varying analysis

needs

We are Virginia TechElectronic Application


Applicant Data

• Monitoring Points• Maps –Application,

Revision, Renewal, Geology, SWH, etc.,

• Map Features• Data Formats –

flexibility• Required Layers

• Application Guide & Help

• Data Consistency• Viewers

We are Virginia TechMonitoring Point Locations


Applicant Data Entry


Applicant Maps – CAD


GIS Permit Data – CAD Layer Extraction


Types of Analysis

• Direct map feature comparison – applicant map features to agency spatial data

• Imagery verification – areas of disturbance, visual analysis of adjacent features (homes, streams, roads, other permits, timbering operations)

• Acreage calculations – permit boundaries, re-mining, bonding increments, etc.

• Identify potential conflicts – Proximity analysis (other permits, gas wells, pipelines, and past mining activities, inhabited structures, roads)

• Easy query and navigation capabilities - inclusion of other datasets – (Transportation, hydrology, rail, etc.)

• Discipline specific analysis – custom tools for geology, water monitoring, engineering etc.,


DMME Data – ArcGIS

• Standard Themes – Regulatory data such as Permit Boundaries, Hollow Fills, Water Monitoring points, mine license locations, etc.

• Custom Tools for common themes – custom MXD• Ability to include other data, including outside

data sources for analysis – web map services• Applicant maps and features as themes – directly

from application or from feature extraction


Applicant Maps


Permitting GIS Conclusion• Facilitates decision-making & expedites the

review process• Increases analytical capabilities of reviewer• Provides a platform for direct comparison of

applicant and agency data• Historic record keeping of geographic information

associated with each permit• Enhanced data exchange capabilities• Provides opportunity to incorporate information

otherwise impossible to use with hardcopy maps


Examples

• Bond Release – Colorado and North Dakota• Abandoned Mine Land (AML) Reclamation

design proposals – Virginia• View shed analysis for historic resources -

Virginia


Data View


Data Comments

PM-23 fissure18

PM-3 slope 23%17

PM-3 nick points16

PM-19 mid15

Road remnants seed14

PM_8 Slope 25%13

PM-1 lower ditch repair SEED12

PM-1 Grass 3%11

PM-4 mid slope 40%10

PM-4 mid slope 41%9

PM-4 mid slope 16%8

F road7

PM-4 upper slope below T-31 196

rock pile5

PM-4 head 8% slope4

spring3

PM-6 lower slope 16%2

PM-6 slope above bend 9%1

Slope at f-road xing--14%0

CommentID


NAD 1927 (map features) versus NAD 1983 (GPS data)


Mines of North Dakota


Active Lignite Mines

Coteau

DWC

Falkirk

BNI


70WilliamsGeoResources

22Other

330StarkRoyal Oak

14,705 acresTotals

919WardVelva

37MortonNew Leipzig

1361BurkeLarson

4,568MercerIndian Head

770BowmanGascoyne

3,035MercerGlenharold

844MercerFreedom (Coteau)

293McLeanFalkirk

1275OliverCenter (BNI)

1173Mercer/OliverBeulah

AcreageCountyMine

Final Bond Release


Indian Head

Coteau

Glenharold

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EXISTING


PROPOSAL #1


PROPOSAL #2

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QUESTIONS?

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