KRS Chapter 350

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• .005   Repealed, 1960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• .024    Repealed, effective January 1, 1973.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• .026   Repealed, 1966.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• .0281   Repealed, 1992.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• .030   Repealed, 1956.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• .040   Repealed, 1956.

• .045   Repealed, 1960.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.

• .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.

• .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 -- Transfer to fiscal courts.

• .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.