(a) In accordance with rules adopted by the Department, each permittee shall (1) establish and maintain appropriate records, (2) make monthly reports to the Department, (3) install, use, and maintain any necessary monitoring equipment or methods, (4) evaluate results in accordance with such methods, at such locations, intervals, and in such manner as the Department prescribes, and (5) provide such other information relative to mining and reclamation operations as the Department deems reasonable and necessary to accomplish the purposes of this Act. (b) For those mining and reclamation operations which remove or disturb strata that serve as aquifers which significantly insure the hydrologic balance of water use either on or off the mining site, the Department shall specify (1) monitoring sites to record the quantity and quality of surface drainage above and below the minesite as well as in the potential zone of influence; (2) monitoring sites to record level, amount, and samples of ground water and aquifers potentially affected by the mining and also directly below the lowermost (deepest) coal seam to be mined; (3) records of well logs and borehole data to be maintained; and (4) monitoring sites to record precipitation. (c) The monitoring data collection and analysis required by this Section shall be conducted according to standards and procedures set forth by the Department in order to assure their reliability and validity.
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