Performance standards and monitoring requirements of surface coal mine reclamation success in mountainous jurisdictions of western North America: a review
✍ Scribed by C.R. Smyth; P. Dearden
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 465 KB
- Volume
- 53
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0301-4797
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✦ Synopsis
The regulatory performance standards and monitoring requirements that are used to evaluate reclamation success in nine western North America jurisdictions were reviewed. Ecosystem-based reclamation monitoring, a crucial part of regulatory enforcement and adaptive environmental management, was lacking in most jurisdictions. Reclamation practices and regulatory control in each jurisdiction would be improved greatly by effective long-term monitoring. A set of performance standards (including productivity, land use capability and functional dynamics) is proposed which better integrates with a phased bond release process. As well, a long-term hierarchical (population, community, ecosystem, landscape) monitoring programme is proposed.