California Public Resources Code ARTICLE 2 - Definitions

• Section 2725.
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions set forth in this article shall govern the construction of this chapter.(Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 1131.)
• Section 2726.
  “Area of regional significance” means an area designated by the board pursuant to Section 2790 which is known to contain a deposit of minerals, the...
• Section 2727.
  “Area of statewide significance” means an area designated by the board pursuant to Section 2790 which is known to contain a deposit of minerals, the...
• Section 2727.1.
  “Idle” means that an operator of a surface mining operation has curtailed production at the surface mining operation, with the intent to resume the surface...
• Section 2728.
  “Lead agency” means the city, county, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, or the board which has the principal responsibility for approving a reclamation...
• Section 2729.
  “Mined lands” includes the surface, subsurface, and ground water of an area in which surface mining operations will be, are being, or have been conducted,...
• Section 2730.
  “Mining waste” includes the residual of soil, rock, mineral, liquid, vegetation, equipment, machines, tools, or other materials or property directly resulting from, or displaced by,...
• Section 2731.
  “Operator” means any person who is engaged in surface mining operations, himself, or who contracts with others to conduct operations on his behalf, except a...
• Section 2732.
  “Overburden” means soil, rock, or other materials that lie above a natural mineral deposit or in between mineral deposits, before or after their removal by...
• Section 2732.5.
  “Permit” means any authorization from, or approval by, a lead agency, the absence of which would preclude surface mining operations.(Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 1131.)
• Section 2733.
  “Reclamation” means the combined process of land treatment that minimizes water degradation, air pollution, damage to aquatic or wildlife habitat, flooding, erosion, and other adverse...
• Section 2734.
  “State policy” means the regulations adopted by the board pursuant to Section 2755.(Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 800, Sec. 2.2. Effective July 28, 1980.)
• Section 2735.
  “Surface mining operations” means all, or any part of, the process involved in the mining of minerals on mined lands by removing overburden and mining...
• Section 2736.
  “Financial assurances” means a current approved financial assurance cost estimate and a financial assurance mechanism that is at least equal to the current approved financial...

Last modified: October 22, 2018