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KRS Chapter 350.00

  • .005   Repealed, 1960.

  • .010   Definitions for chapter.

  • .020   Declaration of legislative policy and finding of fact.

  • .024    Repealed, effective January 1, 1973.

  • .025   Provisions inconsistent with federal law unenforceable.

  • .026   Repealed, 1966.

  • .028   Powers of cabinet.

  • .0281   Repealed, 1992.

  • .0285   Notification to Transportation Cabinet of permits for mine openings and of mine closings under authority of cabinet.

  • .029   Regulations to implement Interstate Mining Compact -- Adoption -- Limitations.

  • .030   Repealed, 1956.

  • .0301   Petition challenging determination of cabinet -- Conduct of hearings -- Administrative regulations -- Secretary may designate deputy to sign final orders.

  • .0305   Appeal of cabinet's order.

  • .032   Enforcement of subpoenas -- Judicial review of final orders -- Forfeiture of performance bond -- Temporary relief pending final determination.

  • .035   Department for Natural Resources -- Divisions -- Appointment of special investigations officers.

  • .040   Repealed, 1956.

  • .045   Repealed, 1960.

  • .050   Powers of cabinet.

  • .052   Powers, qualifications, and training of special investigations officers.

  • .053   Seizure and sale of equipment -- Rights of owner or lien holder.

  • .054   Illegal mining and conveyance reclamation fund -- Purpose -- Control.

  • .055   Publication of notice of intention to mine by permit applicant -- Notification of various local government bodies by cabinet.

  • .057   Coal exploration operations.

  • .060   Permit requirement -- Contents of application -- Fee -- Bond -- Exemptions -- Administrative regulations -- Successive renewal -- Auger mining of previously mined area -- Exempt operations.

  • .062   Data included in permit application -- Contemporaneous reclamation -- Subsoil augmentation -- Cabinet to compile hydrologic data -- Abandoned land projects classified as government financed construction.

  • .063   Duty of applicant to meet and confer with well operator if permit will disturb access roads.

  • .064   Reclamation bond to be filed by applicant.

  • .066   Bond posting not required until permit application approved.

  • .068   Cancellation of surety.

  • .069   Stringency of regulations.

  • .070   Permit revisions.

  • .075   Special permits for remining of previously affected areas -- Administrative regulations.

  • .080   Procedure for obtaining approval of other mining operations -- Deferral of reclamation.

  • .085   Denial of permits and operations -- Deletion of land areas.

  • .090   Method of operation, grading, backfilling, and reclamation plans -- Funding from reclamation development fund -- Waste materials in permit area only.

  • .093   Time and distance limits on reclamation efforts -- Deferments -- Drift or other underground mining -- Variances -- Release of bond.

  • .095   Responsibility for successful revegetation -- Cabinet administrative regulations.

  • .097   Protection and location of pollinator habitats on coal mine reclamation sites.

  • .100   Time for commencement and completion of reclamation -- Deferred planting.

  • .105   Easement of necessity to conduct reclamation operations.

  • .110   Repealed, 1990

  • .113   Planting report.

  • .117   Ownership of trees, shrubs, and plants.

  • .120   Report on expiration of permit -- Contents.

  • .130   Notice of noncompliance -- Revocation of permit -- Bond forfeiture -- Ineligibility for future permits -- Notice or order effective upon delivery.

  • .131   Use of forfeited reclamation bond funds -- Contract to reclaim overlapped disturbed area for which bond has been forfeited and collected.

  • .133   Mountaintop removal.

  • .135   Requirements for transfer of surface coal mining permit -- Release of bond -- Regulations -- Approval by cabinet.

  • .139   Deposit of funds to State Treasury -- Exceptions -- Amount to be transferred to fiscal courts -- Remainder for Division of Mine Permits.

  • .140   Repealed, effective January 1, 1973.

  • .141   Repealed, effective January 1, 1973.

  • .143   Repealed, effective January 1, 1973.

  • .145   Repealed, effective January 1, 1973.

  • .150   Reclamation work by cabinet -- Procedure -- Acceptance of federal and other funds -- Access to land.

  • .151   Permanent program administrative regulations for mining and reclamation -- Bond.

  • .152   Acquisition of land by Commonwealth for reclamation purposes.

  • .154   Restoration and reclamation by cabinet.

  • .156   Transfer of jurisdiction of restored land to state agency or sale to political subdivision -- Return of money to revolving fund.

  • .158   Land under bond for restoration not to be acquired.

  • .160   Repealed, 1962.

  • .161   Acquisition and disposal of land, how governed.

  • .163   Cabinet may accept state and federal funds -- Deposit in State Treasury.

  • .170   Construction of chapter.

  • .175   Persons required to comply with requirements of chapter.

  • .180   Repealed, 1962.

  • .185   Repealed, effective January 1, 1973.

  • .190   Repealed, 1962.

  • .195   Repealed, 1966.

  • .200   Signs to be posted at mining sites.

  • .210   Repealed, effective May 18, 1982.

  • .220   Repealed, 1978.

  • .230   Conformance to statutes and regulations required, when -- Effective date of regulation.

  • .240   Clay mining regulations.

  • .250   Complaints of violation -- Mandamus -- Civil action by person adversely affected by violation -- Intervention by cabinet.

  • .255   Petition for initiation of proceeding for issuance, amendment or repeal of a regulation -- Notice -- Hearing -- Order -- Judicial review.

  • .260   Small Coal Operators Advisory Council.

  • .270   Disposal of coal combustion by-products at surface coal mining operations -- Permitting process -- Requirements for disposal -- Authority for administrative regulations.

  • .275   Legislative findings and declaration on backstowing and reinjection of coal processing and coal underground development waste.

  • .280   Easements of necessity to abate certain dangerous violations and for appraisal purposes when access to property denied -- When effective -- Appraisal and calculation of damages -- Independent appraisal by property owner or legal occupant -- Payment of damages -- Payment of entry fee for appraisal purposes.

  • .285   Repealed, 2006.

    • Interstate Compact

  • .300   Interstate Mining Compact enacted.

  • .310   Mining Council -- Members -- Terms.

  • .320   Bylaws of Interstate Mining Commission -- Where filed.

    • Reclamation

  • .400   Repealed, 1982.

  • .405   Restoration of land.

  • .410   Restoration of approximate original contour.

  • .415   Soil segregation.

  • .420   Minimization of the disturbance to hydrologic balance.

  • .421   Protection of water resources.

  • .425   Waste used as dams -- Jurisdiction over dams.

  • .430   Explosives.

  • .435   Vegetation.

  • .440   Placement of excess spoil.

  • .445   Steep-slope strip mining -- Performance standards -- Conditions for disturbing land above highwall for road construction.

  • .450   Prime farmland -- Mountaintop removal -- Variance upon written request of surface owner -- Technical assistance for small operator -- Release of portion of bond.

  • .455   Water impoundment on mining site.

  • .460   Financial interest by state employee prohibited.

  • .465   Permanent regulatory program.

  • .470   Review of regulations.

  • .475   Regulations regarding disturbance of reclaimed permit areas and for transferring liability for reclamation.

  • .480   Use of simplified procedures for determining restoration of soil productivity on mined prime farmlands.

  • .485   Promotion of research and data collection on simplified procedures to determine their validity with respect to restoration of soil productivity on mined prime farmlands.

    • Abandoned Mine Lands Program

  • .550   Creation of Abandoned Mine Lands Program -- Reclamation fund -- Use of fund.

  • .553   Certification of achievement of priorities -- Effect of concurrence in certification.

  • .555   Priorities for expenditure of moneys from fund.

  • .560   Lands and water eligible for reclamation or drainage abatement expenditures.

  • .563   Restrictions on use of reclamation project grants.

  • .565   Authority to submit plans and reports to federal Department of the Interior.

  • .570   Right of cabinet to enter upon land for reclamation purposes -- Acquisition and disposal of land by Commonwealth.

  • .575   Lien for reclamation.

  • .580   Reclamation of surface impacts of underground or surface mining.

  • .585   Emergency restoration and reclamation.

  • .590   Power of cabinet to administer provisions of Abandoned Mine Lands Program.

  • .595   Bond pool fund for Abandoned Mine Land Enhancement Program.

  • .597   Special trust fund.

    • Oil Shale Mining

  • .600   Legislative findings and intent -- Commercial oil shale mining prohibited until adoption of rules and regulations.

    • Lands Unsuitable

  • .610   Designation of lands as unsuitable for surface coal mining.

    • Bond Pool Fund

  • .700   Bond pool fund established.

  • .705   Bond Pool Commission.

  • .710   Powers of commission.

  • .715   Pool administrator.

  • .720   Bond pool -- Criteria -- Compliance records.

  • .725   Membership fee -- Tonnage fee.

  • .730   Tonnage fee suspension or reinstatement.

  • .735   Permit-specific penal bond.

  • .740   Permit issuance.

  • .745   Payments from fund for reclamation.

  • .750   Revocation of membership in bond pool.

  • .755   Grounds for refusal of permit.

    • Penalties

  • .990   Penalties.

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