Ill. Admin. Code tit. 62, § 1762.11 - Criteria for Designating Lands as Unsuitable
a) Upon petition, an area shall be designated
as unsuitable for all or certain types of surface coal mining operations, if
the Department determines that reclamation is not technologically and
economically feasible under the Surface Coal Mining and Conservation and
Reclamation Act (the State Act), and these regulations.
b) Upon petition, an area may be (but is not
required to be) designated as unsuitable for certain types of surface coal
mining operations, if the operations will:
1)
Be incompatible with existing State or local land use plans or
programs;
2) Affect fragile or
historic lands in which the operations could result in significant damage to
important historic, cultural, scientific, or esthetic values or natural
systems;
3) Affect renewable
resource lands in which the operations could result in a substantial loss or
reduction of long-range productivity of water supply, or of food or fiber
products; or
4) Affect natural
hazard lands in which the operations could substantially endanger life and
property, such lands to include areas subject to frequent flooding and areas of
unstable geology.
Notes
Amended at 6 Ill. Reg. 1, effective June 1, 1982
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