Allegheny River Headwaters Watershed Conservation Plan

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Allegheny River Headwaters Conservation Plan Chapter 7. Management Recommendations GOAL 2-3: ADDRESS LAND OWNERSHIP ISSUES (CONTINUED). Objective 2: Establish cooperation among surface and subsurface owners without significantly impeding each others' rights. Method to achieve objective: Potential Partners Potential Funding Priority 1. Establish laws to protect surface owner's rights and property from damage caused by subsurface mineral rights owners’ access and resource extraction operations. Conservation Districts, Conservation Groups, Legislators, DCNR, DEP Foundations, Private Sources, Legislature High 2. Determine sub-surface ownership for private properties and encourage the landowners to purchase those rights if capable. Landowners, Counties, DEP Foundations, Private Sources, DEP Medium 3. Organize third-party moderated discussions between surface and subsurface rights owners prior to beginning exploration, construction, and production activities to address and resolve issues and minimize impact to the natural resources. Conservation Groups, Conservation Districts, Landowners Foundations, Private Sources, DEP Medium GOAL 2-4: PROMOTE SOUND MINERAL EXTRACTION PRACTICES AND REDUCE ASSOCIATED IMPACTS. Objective 1: Reclaim abandoned wells and quarries. Method to achieve objective: Potential Partners Potential Funding Priority 1. Inventory abandoned wells and develop a remediation Conservation Foundations, Private High plan to plug the wells and reclaim the sites. Groups, DEP Sources, DEP, EPA 2. Inventory abandoned quarry sites and work with the landowner to establish a remediation plan that incorporates hazard reduction. Conservation Groups, Concerned Citizens Foundations, Private Sources High 3. Reduce hazards on active and abandoned industrial mining sites. Conservation Districts, Conservation Groups, DEP Foundations, Private Sources, DEP, EPA High Objective 2: Promote management practices on active mining sites to minimize and prevent impacts and to improve conditions where possible. Method to achieve objective: Potential Partners Potential Funding Priority 1. Promote strict enforcement of erosion and sedimentation regulations and dust control plans on active mining sites. Conservation Districts, DEP, EPA DEP, EPA High 7-12
Allegheny River Headwaters Conservation Plan Chapter 7. Management Recommendations GOAL 2-4: PROMOTE SOUND MINERAL EXTRACTION PRACTICES AND REDUCE ASSOCIATED IMPACTS (CONTINUED). Objective 2: Promote management practices on active mining sites to minimize and prevent impacts and to improve conditions where possible (continued). Method to achieve objective: Potential Partners Potential Funding Priority 2. Establish and enforce requirements for sealing coredrillings, preventing the contamination of water sources. Conservation Groups, Conservation Districts, DEP Foundations, Private Sources, DEP, EPA High 3. Utilize high-value hardwood tree plantings as one method to reclaim abandoned mine lands, and support the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and United States Department of Interior's Office of Surface Mining Reforestation Initiative on active mine sites. Conservation Groups, Conservation Districts, DEP Foundations, Private Sources, DEP, EPA High Objective 3: Minimize impacts caused by exploration, production, retirement, and abandonment of oil and gas wells. Method to achieve objective: Potential Partners Potential Funding Priority 1. Institute closer government oversight on gas-well exploration and production, including impacts to the natural resources. Conservation Groups, Landowners, DEP Foundations, Private Sources, DEP High 2. Establish water quality monitoring program for water wells located near proposed, existing, and abandoned oil and gas well sites. Conservation Groups, Landowners, Drilling Companies Foundations, Private Sources, DEP High 3. Plug abandoned gas wells to prevent brine water from entering streams and aquifers. Conservation Groups, Landowners Foundations, Private Sources, DEP High 4. Monitor cumulative impacts of oil and gas wells and implement best management practices to reduce impacts protecting watershed resources. Conservation Groups, Conservation Districts, DEP Foundations, Private Sources, DEP High 7-13
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