Chapter 40 - COAL MINING
- Rule 27-40.1 - Authority and scope
- Rule 27-40.2 - Rules or subrules are severable
- Rule 27-40.3 - General
- Rule 27-40.4 - Permanent regulatory program and exemption for coal extraction incidental to the extraction of other minerals
- Rule 27-40.5 - Restrictions on financial interests of state employees
- Rule 27-40.6 - Exemptions for coal extraction incident to government-financed highway or other constructions
- Rule 27-40.7 - Protection of employees
- Rule 27-40.8 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.9 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.10 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.11 - Initial regulatory program
- Rule 27-40.12 - General performance standards-initial program
- Rule 27-40.13 - Special performance standards-initial program
- Rule 27-40.14 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.15 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.16 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.17 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.18 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.19 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.20 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.21 - Areas designated by an Act of Congress
- Rule 27-40.22 - Criteria for designating areas as unsuitable for surface coal mining operations
- Rule 27-40.23 - State procedures for designating areas unsuitable for surface coal mining operations
- Rule 27-40.24 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.25 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.26 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.27 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.28 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.29 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.30 - Requirements for coal exploration
- Rule 27-40.31 - Requirements for permits and permit processing
- Rule 27-40.32 - Revision or amendment; renewal; and transfer, assignment, or sale of permit rights
- Rule 27-40.33 - General content requirements for permit applications
- Rule 27-40.34 - Permit application-minimum requirements for legal, financial, compliance, and related information
- Rule 27-40.35 - Surface mining permit applications-minimum requirements for information on environmental resources
- Rule 27-40.36 - Surface mining permit applications-minimum requirements for reclamation and operation plan
- Rule 27-40.37 - Underground mining permit applications-minimum requirements for information on environmental resources
- Rule 27-40.38 - Underground mining permit applications-minimum requirements for reclamation and operation plan
- Rule 27-40.39 - Requirements for permits for special categories of mining
- Rule 27-40.40 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.41 - Permanent regulatory program-small operator assistance program
- Rule 27-40.42 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.43 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.44 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.45 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.46 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.47 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.48 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.49 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.50 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.51 - Bond and insurance requirements for surface coal mining and reclamation operations under regulatory programs
- Rule 27-40.52 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.53 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.54 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.55 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.56 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.57 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.58 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.59 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.60 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.61 - Permanent program performance standards-general provisions
- Rule 27-40.62 - Permanent program performance standards-coal exploration
- Rule 27-40.63 - Permanent program performance standards-surface mining activities
- Rule 27-40.64 - Permanent program performance standards-underground mining activities
- Rule 27-40.65 - Special permanent program performance standards-auger mining
- Rule 27-40.66 - Special permanent program performance standards-operations on prime farmland
- Rule 27-40.67 - Permanent program performance standards-coal preparation plants not located within the permit area of a mine
- Rule 27-40.68 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.69 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.70 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.71 - State regulatory authority-inspection and enforcement
- Rule 27-40.72 - Inspections and monitoring
- Rule 27-40.73 - Enforcement
- Rule 27-40.74 - Civil penalties
- Rule 27-40.75 - Individual civil penalties
- Rule 27-40.76 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.77 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.78 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.79 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.80 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.81 - Permanent regulatory program requirements-standards for certification of blasters
- Rule 27-40.82 - Certification of blasters
- Rule 27-40.83 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.84 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.85 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.86 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.87 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.88 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.89 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.90 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.91 - Procedural rules-contested cases and public hearings
- Rule 27-40.92 - Contested cases
- Rule 27-40.93 - Commencement of proceeding
- Rule 27-40.94 - Appeals of division notices and orders
- Rule 27-40.95 - Prehearing motions
- Rule 27-40.96 - Issuance of notices of hearing
- Rule 27-40.97 - Hearing procedures
- Rule 27-40.98 - Posthearing procedures
- Rule 27-40.99 - Decision of the administrative law judge, procedure in appeals before the committee, extensions of time, public hearings, and judicial review of the committee decision
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- Rule 27-40.1 - Authority and scope
- Rule 27-40.2 - Rules or subrules are severable
- Rule 27-40.3 - General
- Rule 27-40.4 - Permanent regulatory program and exemption for coal extraction incidental to the extraction of other minerals
- Rule 27-40.5 - Restrictions on financial interests of state employees
- Rule 27-40.6 - Exemptions for coal extraction incident to government-financed highway or other constructions
- Rule 27-40.7 - Protection of employees
- Rule 27-40.8 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.9 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.10 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.11 - Initial regulatory program
- Rule 27-40.12 - General performance standards-initial program
- Rule 27-40.13 - Special performance standards-initial program
- Rule 27-40.14 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.15 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.16 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.17 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.18 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.19 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.20 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.21 - Areas designated by an Act of Congress
- Rule 27-40.22 - Criteria for designating areas as unsuitable for surface coal mining operations
- Rule 27-40.23 - State procedures for designating areas unsuitable for surface coal mining operations
- Rule 27-40.24 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.25 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.26 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.27 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.28 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.29 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.30 - Requirements for coal exploration
- Rule 27-40.31 - Requirements for permits and permit processing
- Rule 27-40.32 - Revision or amendment; renewal; and transfer, assignment, or sale of permit rights
- Rule 27-40.33 - General content requirements for permit applications
- Rule 27-40.34 - Permit application-minimum requirements for legal, financial, compliance, and related information
- Rule 27-40.35 - Surface mining permit applications-minimum requirements for information on environmental resources
- Rule 27-40.36 - Surface mining permit applications-minimum requirements for reclamation and operation plan
- Rule 27-40.37 - Underground mining permit applications-minimum requirements for information on environmental resources
- Rule 27-40.38 - Underground mining permit applications-minimum requirements for reclamation and operation plan
- Rule 27-40.39 - Requirements for permits for special categories of mining
- Rule 27-40.40 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.41 - Permanent regulatory program-small operator assistance program
- Rule 27-40.42 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.43 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.44 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.45 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.46 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.47 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.48 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.49 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.50 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.51 - Bond and insurance requirements for surface coal mining and reclamation operations under regulatory programs
- Rule 27-40.52 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.53 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.54 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.55 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.56 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.57 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.58 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.59 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.60 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.61 - Permanent program performance standards-general provisions
- Rule 27-40.62 - Permanent program performance standards-coal exploration
- Rule 27-40.63 - Permanent program performance standards-surface mining activities
- Rule 27-40.64 - Permanent program performance standards-underground mining activities
- Rule 27-40.65 - Special permanent program performance standards-auger mining
- Rule 27-40.66 - Special permanent program performance standards-operations on prime farmland
- Rule 27-40.67 - Permanent program performance standards-coal preparation plants not located within the permit area of a mine
- Rule 27-40.68 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.69 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.70 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.71 - State regulatory authority-inspection and enforcement
- Rule 27-40.72 - Inspections and monitoring
- Rule 27-40.73 - Enforcement
- Rule 27-40.74 - Civil penalties
- Rule 27-40.75 - Individual civil penalties
- Rule 27-40.76 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.77 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.78 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.79 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.80 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.81 - Permanent regulatory program requirements-standards for certification of blasters
- Rule 27-40.82 - Certification of blasters
- Rule 27-40.83 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.84 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.85 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.86 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.87 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.88 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.89 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.90 - Reserved
- Rule 27-40.91 - Procedural rules-contested cases and public hearings
- Rule 27-40.92 - Contested cases
- Rule 27-40.93 - Commencement of proceeding
- Rule 27-40.94 - Appeals of division notices and orders
- Rule 27-40.95 - Prehearing motions
- Rule 27-40.96 - Issuance of notices of hearing
- Rule 27-40.97 - Hearing procedures
- Rule 27-40.98 - Posthearing procedures
- Rule 27-40.99 - Decision of the administrative law judge, procedure in appeals before the committee, extensions of time, public hearings, and judicial review of the committee decision