MRPP: The French Prevention Procedure to Manage Post-Mining Hazards

Even if most French mining sites are definitively closed, potential risks remain above the abandoned exploitations. Those risks influence the land use management of post-mining areas. In order to manage properly those risks, French State has developed a technical and regulatory tool: the MRPP (Mining Risk Prevention Plan). MRPP aims to identify the most sensitive areas subject to “post mining hazards ” and to define regulations able to manage future urbanism development on surface. The present paper proposes a methodological description of MRPP in order to explain the nature and objectives of the procedure.