Indiana Administrative Code
Title 312 - NATURAL RESOURCES COMMISSION
Article 25 - COAL MINING AND RECLAMATION OPERATIONS
Rule 4 - Permitting Procedures
Section 4-1 - Continued operation under interim permits
Current through March 20, 2024
Authority: IC 14-34-2-1
Affected: IC 14-36-1
Sec. 1.
(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), no person shall conduct surface coal mining and reclamation operations on and after March 29, 1983, unless that person has first obtained a permanent program permit from the director under section 3 of this rule.
(b) A person conducting surface coal mining operations under an interim permit issued or amended by the commission in accordance with the requirements of IC 14-36-1, as amended, P.L. 159, Acts of 1978 and P.L. 331, Acts of 1981 or under an interim permit, the expiration of which has been extended by the commission, may conduct those operations beyond the term of such permit and beyond the period prescribed in subsection (a), if: