Arkansas Code Title 15, Subtitle 5, Chapter 57, Subchapter 4 - Quarry Operation Reclamation, Operation, and Safe Closure

• § 15-57-401 - Title.
  This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Arkansas Quarry Operation, Reclamation, and Safe Closure Act".
• § 15-57-402 - Definitions.
  As used in this subchapter: (1) "Active" means a quarry wall where extraction is occurring or is planned to occur; (2) "Affected land" means...
• § 15-57-403 - Notification -- Filing -- Public Notice and Response.
  (a) It shall be unlawful for any operator to engage in a quarrying operation without first submitting to the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality...
• § 15-57-404 - Notification of Intent to Quarry.
  (a) (1) Except for operators of quarries excluded by § 15-57-403(b), any operator desiring to engage in quarrying shall complete a notification of intent...
• § 15-57-405 - Notification of Temporarily Closed Quarry.
  (a) Quarry sites in which operations are only occasionally conducted and in which the operator anticipates future quarry activity can be shut down on...
• § 15-57-406 - Notification of Reactivated Quarry.
  Prior to resuming operation in a temporarily closed quarry, an operator will notify the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality by certified mail with a...
• § 15-57-407 - Notification Refiling Required.
  (a) Every five (5) years all notifications of intent to quarry and of temporarily closed quarry must be refiled with the Arkansas Department of...
• § 15-57-408 - Notifications of Exhausted Quarry.
  (a) When a quarry becomes exhausted, the operator will notify the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality by registered mail that the quarry is an...
• § 15-57-409 - Reclamation of Land At Exhausted Quarry Site.
  (a) When the quarry is exhausted, the planned reclamation of all affected lands at the quarry site will be completed by the operator, his...
• § 15-57-410 - Site Safety.
  The quarry operator will take the following measures to safeguard the operations for the benefit of neighbors and other citizens and to restrain trespassers...
• § 15-57-411 - Complaints of Violations of This Subchapter.
  (a) The operator is required to document and respond to complaints by neighbors and citizens as they relate to the requirements of this subchapter....
• § 15-57-412 - Bond.
  (a) In order to assure that all reclamation is completed as required and within a reasonable length of time, the operator shall submit a...
• § 15-57-413 - Hearing.
  An operator may request and obtain an adjudicatory hearing and review by the Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission of any decision by the...
• § 15-57-414 - Distribution of Fees, Fines, and Forfeiture Amounts.
  (a) The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality shall collect fees, fines, and bond forfeiture amounts pursuant to this subchapter.(b) These revenues, along with gifts,...

Last modified: November 15, 2016