16 Tex. Admin. Code § 12.75 - 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 Commission determines that reclamation is not
technologically and economically feasible under the Act, this chapter (relating
to Coal Mining Regulations), or the approved state program.
(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.
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