Ohio Revised Code Chapter 1513 - Coal Surface Mining

• Section 1513.01 - Coal Surface Mining Definitions.
  As used in this chapter: (A) "Approximate original contour" means that surface configuration achieved by backfilling and grading of a mined area so that...
• Section 1513.02 - Chief Of Division Of Mineral Resources Management - Powers And Duties.
  (A) The division of mineral resources management shall administer, enforce, and implement this chapter. The chief of the division of mineral resources management shall...
• Section 1513.03 - Mineral Resources Inspectors - Right Of Entry.
  The chief of the division of mineral resources management shall designate certain employees of the division as mineral resources inspectors for the purpose of...
• Section 1513.04 - Prohibited Acts.
  No employee of the state performing any function or duty under Chapter 1513. or 1514. of the Revised Code shall: (A) Engage in coal...
• Section 1513.05 - Reclamation Commission.
  There is hereby created a reclamation commission consisting of seven members appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. For...
• Section 1513.06 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 03-18-1983
• Section 1513.07 - Coal Mining And Reclamation Permit - Application Or Renewal - Reclamation Plan.
  (A) (1) No operator shall conduct a coal mining operation without a permit for the operation issued by the chief of the division of...
• Section 1513.071 - Submission Of Advertisement And Notice Of Application For Permit Or Significant Revision.
  (A) Simultaneously with the filing of an application for a permit or significant revision of an existing permit under section 1513.07 of the Revised...
• Section 1513.072 - Administrative Rules For Coal Exploration Operations.
  (A) Coal exploration operations that substantially disturb the natural land surface shall be conducted in accordance with exploration rules adopted by the chief of...
• Section 1513.073 - Designating Areas As Unsuitable For Coal Mining Operations.
  (A) (1) Upon petition pursuant to division (B) of this section, the chief of the division of mineral resources management shall designate an area...
• Section 1513.074 - Application For Extension Of Permit To Contiguous Land.
  An operator may file an application for an extension of a currently active permit to land contiguous to the permit area of the permit....
• Section 1513.075 - Potential Acidity And Neutralization Of Disturbed Strata.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Potential acidity" means a laboratory measurement of the amount of acidity that could be produced by material...
• Section 1513.076 - Agency Coordination And Cooperation Respecting Permits.
  The director of environmental protection and the director of natural resources shall jointly establish procedures that do all of the following: (A) Provide for...
• Section 1513.08 - Filing Performance Bond Or Deposit Of Cash Or Securities.
  (A) After a coal mining and reclamation permit application has been approved, the applicant shall file with the chief of the division of mineral...
• Section 1513.081 - Priority Lien Where Permittee Becomes Insolvent Or Alternative Not Provided.
  (A) If a permittee becomes insolvent, or an alternative financial security to provide long-term water treatment or a long-term alternative water supply, or both,...
• Section 1513.09 - Inspections Of Coal Mining And Reclamation Operations.
  (A) The chief of the division of mineral resources management shall cause to be made such inspections of any coal mining and reclamation operations...
• Section 1513.10 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 09-05-2001; 04-06-2007
• Section 1513.11 - Order Of Chief Or Representative Shall Be In Writing.
  Every order of the chief of the division of mineral resources management or an authorized representative of the chief affecting the rights, duties, or...
• Section 1513.12 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 09-01-1981
• Section 1513.13 - Appeal To Reclamation Commission.
  (A) (1) Any person having an interest that is or may be adversely affected by a notice of violation, order, or decision of the...
• Section 1513.131 - Public Adjudicatory Hearings.
  For the purpose of conducting any public adjudicatory hearing under this chapter, the chief, or the reclamation commission may require the attendance of witnesses...
• Section 1513.14 - Appeal To Court Of Appeals.
  (A) Any party aggrieved or adversely affected by a decision of the reclamation commission may appeal to the court of appeals for the county...
• Section 1513.15 - Requesting Attorney General To Institute Civil Action.
  (A) In addition to any other remedy under this chapter, the chief of the division of mineral resources management may request the attorney general...
• Section 1513.16 - Performance Standards.
  (A) Any permit issued under this chapter to conduct coal mining operations shall require that the operations meet all applicable performance standards of this...
• Section 1513.161 - Explosives - Rules.
  An operator shall use explosives only in accordance with Chapter 1567. of the Revised Code and rules adopted pursuant thereto by the chief of...
• Section 1513.162 - Operator To Replace Water Supply.
  (A) The operator of a coal mining operation shall replace the water supply of an owner of interest in real property who obtains all...
• Section 1513.163 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 04-10-1972
• Section 1513.17 - Prohibited Acts.
  (A) No person shall: (1) Engage in coal mining or conduct a coal mining operation without a permit issued by the chief of the...
• Section 1513.171 - Tax Credit For Reclamation Outside Permit Area.
  (A) For the purpose of claiming a credit under section 5749.11 of the Revised Code, an operator with a valid permit issued under section...
• Section 1513.18 - Reclamation Forfeiture Fund.
  (A) All money that becomes the property of the state under division (G) of section 1513.16 of the Revised Code shall be deposited in...
• Section 1513.181 - Coal Mining Administration And Reclamation Reserve Fund.
  There is hereby created in the state treasury the coal mining administration and reclamation reserve fund. The fund shall be used for the administration...
• Section 1513.182 - Reclamation Forfeiture Fund Advisory Board.
  (A) There is hereby created the reclamation forfeiture fund advisory board consisting of the director of natural resources, the director of insurance, and seven...
• Section 1513.19 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 04-10-1972
• Section 1513.20 - Purchase Or Acquisition Of Eroded Land.
  The chief of the division of mineral resources management, with the approval of the director of natural resources, may purchase or acquire by gift,...
• Section 1513.21 - Chief Of Division Shall Reclaim Land.
  From moneys appropriated for this purpose, the chief of the division of mineral resources management shall reclaim any land or tract of land acquired...
• Section 1513.22 - Plan Of Reclamation And Estimate Of Cost.
  Before proceeding to reclaim any land or tract of land acquired pursuant to section 1513.20 of the Revised Code, the chief of the division...
• Section 1513.23 - Studies, Surveys And Maps For Planning Reclamation.
  In determining the purpose or purposes for which any land or tract of land should be devoted after reclamation and in preparing a plan...
• Section 1513.24 - Implementing Reclamation Plan.
  After a plan of reclamation is approved by the director of natural resources, the chief of the division of mineral resources management, from any...
• Section 1513.25 - Transferring Or Selling Reclaimed Land Or Interest In Land.
  After completion of the reclamation of a tract of land acquired pursuant to section 1513.20 of the Revised Code, the chief of the division...
• Section 1513.26 - Annual Report.
  The chief of the division of mineral resources management shall make an annual report to the governor and to the general assembly. The report...
• Section 1513.27 - Reclaiming Land At State Expense.
  As used in this section and sections 1513.28, 1513.30, 1513.31, and 1513.32 of the Revised Code, "damage to adjacent property" means physical injury or...
• Section 1513.28 - Applications For Reclamation Grants.
  The chief of the division of mineral resources management, with the approval of the director of natural resources, may make grants of moneys from...
• Section 1513.29 - Council On Unreclaimed Strip Mined Lands.
  There is hereby created the council on unreclaimed strip mined lands. Its members are the chief of the division of mineral resources management, four...
• Section 1513.30 - Unreclaimed Lands Fund - Selection Of Project Areas.
  There is hereby created in the state treasury the unreclaimed lands fund, to be administered by the chief of the division of mineral resources...
• Section 1513.31 - Grants From Unreclaimed Lands Fund - Application - Determination.
  For the purpose of promoting local or regional economic or community development, the chief of the division of mineral resources management, with the approval...
• Section 1513.32 - Agreements For State Entry And Use Of Funds To Reclaim Land.
  For the purpose of promoting local or regional economic or community development, the chief of the division of mineral resources management, with the approval...
• Section 1513.33 - Grant Constitutes Loan By State To Community Improvement Or Nonprofit Corporation.
  The amount of any grant to a community improvement corporation or nonprofit corporation made under section 1513.31 of the Revised Code or the state's...
• Section 1513.34 - Education And Training For Mineral Resources Inspectors, District Supervisors, And Enforcement Personnel.
  The chief of the division of mineral resources management shall provide education and training for all mineral resources inspectors, district supervisors, and enforcement personnel....
• Section 1513.35 - Permit Requirements For Underground Coal Mining.
  (A) In addition to the other requirements of this chapter, each permit issued by the chief of the division of mineral resources management under...
• Section 1513.36 - Experimental Practices.
  In order to encourage advances in mining and reclamation practices or to allow post-mining land use for industrial, commercial, residential, agricultural, or public use,...
• Section 1513.37 - Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund.
  (A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the abandoned mine reclamation fund, which shall be administered by the chief of the division...
• Section 1513.371 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §105.01, eff. 9/29/2013. Amended by 129th General AssemblyFile No.36, HB 163, §1, eff. 9/30/2011....
• Section 1513.372 - Immunity From Liability.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Abandoned mine land" means land or water resources adversely affected by coal mining practices to which one...
• Section 1513.38 - Compliance With Requirements.
  Any agency, unit, or instrumentality of federal, state, or local government, including any publicly owned corporation of federal, state, or local government, or any...
• Section 1513.39 - Retaliation Against Employees Prohibited.
  (A) No person shall discharge, or in any other way discriminate against or cause to be fired or discriminated against, any employee or any...
• Section 1513.40 - Liability Of Corporate Director, Officer Or Agent.
  Whenever a corporate permittee violates a condition of a permit issued pursuant to this chapter or fails or refuses to comply with any order...
• Section 1513.41 - Informant May Accompany Inspector.
  When an inspection by the chief of the division of mineral resources management or the chief's representative results from information provided by any person,...
• Section 1513.99 - Penalty.
  (A) Whoever violates division (A)(1), (2), (3), (4), or (5) of section 1513.17 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than one...

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