(1) The plan of operation must include the following premine information:

(a) uses of natural and man-made surface water features in and within 500 feet of access roads and 1,000 feet of the main permit area.  Surface water features include, but are not limited to, ephemeral, intermittent, and perennial streams, wetlands, ponds, springs, ditches, and impoundments;

(b) depths, water levels, and uses of water wells in and within 1,000 feet of the main permit area, and the information sources used, such as landowners, field observations, and water well logs.  Available well logs must be submitted with the plan of operation;

(c) estimated ordinary high, ordinary, and ordinary low water table levels in the main permit area, and the information sources used, such as landowners, field observations, and water well logs;

(d) average soil and overburden thicknesses in the main permit area.  At least three separate test hole locations must be used to measure these thicknesses.  Places where the soil and overburden profile is exposed, such as roadcuts, may be used as test hole locations.  Natural resources conservation service or other soil survey information may be used to supplement, but not replace, test hole information; and

(e) structures and residential areas that could be impacted by opencut operations.  Examples of such areas and structures include, but are not limited to, inhabitable dwellings and commercial and industrial facilities.