Indiana Administrative Code
Title 312 - NATURAL RESOURCES COMMISSION
Article 25 - COAL MINING AND RECLAMATION OPERATIONS
Rule 1 - Definitions
- Section 1-1 - Applicability
- Section 1-2 - "A horizon" defined
- Section 1-3 - "Acid-drainage" defined
- Section 1-4 - "Acid-forming materials" defined
- Section 1-5 - "Act" defined
- Section 1-6 - "Adjacent area" defined
- Section 1-7 - "Administratively complete application" defined
- Section 1-8 - "Affected area" defined
- Section 1-9 - "Agricultural use" defined
- Section 1-10 - "Applicant" defined
- Section 1-10.5 - "Applicant/violator system" defined
- Section 1-11 - "Application" defined
- Section 1-12 - "Approximate original contour" defined
- Section 1-13 - "Aquifer" defined
- Section 1-14 - "Auger mining" defined
- Section 1-15 - "Augmented seeding, fertilization, or irrigation" defined
- Section 1-16 - "B horizon" defined
- Section 1-17 - "Best technology currently available" defined
- Section 1-18 - "Box cut spoil" defined
- Section 1-19 - "C horizon" defined
- Section 1-20 - "Cemetery" defined
- Section 1-21 - "Certified blaster" defined
- Section 1-22 - "Coal" defined
- Section 1-23 - "Coal exploration" defined
- Section 1-24 - "Coal mine waste" defined
- Section 1-25 - "Coal preparation" defined
- Section 1-26 - "Coal preparation plant" defined
- Section 1-27 - "Coal processing waste" defined
- Section 1-28 - "Combustible material" defined
- Section 1-29 - "Commission" defined
- Section 1-30 - "Community or institutional building" defined
- Section 1-31 - "Compaction" defined
- Section 1-32 - "Complete application" defined
- Section 1-32.5 - "Control or controller" defined
- Section 1-33 - "Cropland" defined
- Section 1-34 - "Cumulative impact area" defined
- Section 1-35 - "Cumulative measurement period" defined
- Section 1-36 - "Cumulative production" defined
- Section 1-37 - "Cumulative revenue" defined
- Section 1-38 - "Department" defined
- Section 1-39 - "Developed water resources" defined
- Section 1-40 - "Director" defined
- Section 1-41 - "Disturbed area" defined
- Section 1-42 - "Diverse vegetation" defined
- Section 1-43 - "Diversion" defined
- Section 1-44 - "Downslope" defined
- Section 1-45 - "Drinking, domestic, or residential water supply" defined
- Section 1-45.5 - "Drinking water well" defined
- Section 1-46 - "Embankment" defined
- Section 1-47 - "Ephemeral stream" defined
- Section 1-48 - "Excess spoil" defined
- Section 1-49 - "Existing structure" defined
- Section 1-50 - "Extraction of coal as an incidental part" defined
- Section 1-51 - "Federal land" defined
- Section 1-51.5 - "Federal Office of Surface Mining Applicant/Violator System Office" defined
- Section 1-52 - "Fish and wildlife habitat" defined
- Section 1-53 - "Forestry" defined
- Section 1-54 - "Fragile lands" defined
- Section 1-55 - "Fugitive dust" defined
- Section 1-56 - "General area" defined
- Section 1-57 - "Government-financed construction" defined
- Section 1-58 - "Government financing agency" defined
- Section 1-59 - "Ground cover" defined
- Section 1-60 - "Ground water" defined
- Section 1-60.5 - "Ground water management zone" defined
- Section 1-61 - "Half-shrub" defined
- Section 1-62 - "Head-of-hollow fill" defined
- Section 1-63 - "High level management" defined
- Section 1-64 - "Highwall" defined
- Section 1-65 - "Historic lands" defined
- Section 1-66 - "Historically used for cropland" defined
- Section 1-67 - "Hydrologic balance" defined
- Section 1-68 - "Hydrologic regime" defined
- Section 1-69 - "Imminent danger to the health and safety of the public" defined
- Section 1-70 - "Impounding structure" defined
- Section 1-71 - "Impoundment" defined
- Section 1-72 - "In situ process" defined
- Section 1-73 - "Industrial/commercial" defined
- Section 1-74 - "Intermittent stream" defined
- Section 1-75 - "Irreparable damage to the environment" defined
- Section 1-75.1 - "Knowing or knowingly" defined
- Section 1-75.5 - "Land eligible for remining" defined
- Section 1-76 - "Land occasionally cut for hay" defined
- Section 1-77 - "Land use" defined
- Section 1-78 - "Litter" defined
- Section 1-79 - "Material damage" defined
- Section 1-80 - "Mining area" defined
- Section 1-81 - "MSHA" defined
- Section 1-82 - "Mulch" defined
- Section 1-83 - "Native species" defined
- Section 1-84 - "Natural hazard lands" defined
- Section 1-85 - "Noncommercial building" defined
- Section 1-86 - "Noxious weeds" defined
- Section 1-87 - "Occupied dwelling" defined
- Section 1-88 - "Occupied residential dwelling and structures related thereto" defined
- Section 1-89 - "Operator" defined
- Section 1-90 - "Other minerals" defined
- Section 1-91 - "Other treatment facilities" defined
- Section 1-92 - "Outslope" defined
- Section 1-93 - "Overburden" defined
- Section 1-94 - "Owned or controlled" and "owns or controls" defined
- Section 1-95 - "Pastureland" defined
- Section 1-96 - "Perennial stream" defined
- Section 1-97 - "Performance bond" defined
- Section 1-98 - "Permanent diversion" defined
- Section 1-99 - "Permanent impoundment" defined
- Section 1-100 - "Permit" defined
- Section 1-101 - "Permit area" defined
- Section 1-102 - "Permittee" defined
- Section 1-103 - "Person" defined
- Section 1-104 - "Person having an interest, which is or may be adversely affected or person with a valid legal interest" defined
- Section 1-105 - "Pipeline" defined
- Section 1-106 - "Precipitation event" defined
- Section 1-107 - "Previously mined area" defined
- Section 1-108 - "Prime farmland" defined
- Section 1-109 - "Principal shareholder" defined
- Section 1-109.5 - "Property boundary" defined
- Section 1-110 - "Property to be mined" defined
- Section 1-111 - "Public building" defined
- Section 1-112 - "Public office" defined
- Section 1-113 - "Public park" defined
- Section 1-114 - "Public road" defined
- Section 1-115 - "Randomly located" defined
- Section 1-116 - "Recharge capacity" defined
- Section 1-117 - "Reclamation" defined
- Section 1-118 - "Recreation" defined
- Section 1-119 - "Recurrence interval" defined
- Section 1-120 - "Reference area" defined
- Section 1-121 - "Refuse pile" defined
- Section 1-122 - "Regional director" defined
- Section 1-123 - "Renewable resource lands" defined
- Section 1-124 - "Replacement of water supply" defined
- Section 1-125 - "Residential" defined
- Section 1-126 - "Road" defined
- Section 1-127 - "Rooting media" defined
- Section 1-128 - "Safety factor" defined
- Section 1-129 - "Shadow area" defined
- Section 1-130 - "Shelter belt" defined
- Section 1-131 - "Significant, imminent environmental harm to land, air, or water resources" construed
- Section 1-132 - "Siltation structure" defined
- Section 1-133 - "Slope" defined
- Section 1-134 - "Soil horizon" defined
- Section 1-135 - "Soil productivity" defined
- Section 1-136 - "Soil survey" defined
- Section 1-137 - "Spoil" defined
- Section 1-138 - "Stabilize" defined
- Section 1-139 - "Steep slope" defined
- Section 1-140 - "Subsoil" defined
- Section 1-141 - "Substantial legal and financial commitments in a surface coal mining operation" defined
- Section 1-142 - "Substantially disturb" defined
- Section 1-143 - "Support facility" defined
- Section 1-144 - "Surface coal mining and reclamation operations" defined
- Section 1-145 - "Surface coal mining operation" defined
- Section 1-146 - "Surface coal mining operations that exist on the date of enactment" defined
- Section 1-147 - "Surface mining activities" defined
- Section 1-148 - "Surface soil" defined
- Section 1-149 - "Suspended solids or nonfilterable residue expressed as milligrams per liter" defined
- Section 1-150 - "Temporary diversion" defined
- Section 1-151 - "Temporary impoundment" defined
- Section 1-152 - "Ton" defined
- Section 1-153 - "Topsoil" defined
- Section 1-154 - "Toxic-forming materials" defined
- Section 1-155 - "Toxic mine drainage" defined
- Section 1-155.5 - "Unanticipated event or condition" defined
- Section 1-156 - "Underground development waste" defined
- Section 1-157 - "Underground mining activities" defined
- Section 1-158 - "Undeveloped land-no current use or land management" defined
- Section 1-159 - "Valid existing rights" defined and construed
- Section 1-160 - "Valley fill" defined
- Section 1-161 - "Violation notice" defined
- Section 1-162 - "Water table" defined
- Section 1-163 - "Willful violation" defined
Current through March 20, 2024
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