Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES
Part XV - Office of Conservation-Surface Mining
Subpart 2 - Areas Unsuitable for Mining
Chapter 13 - Criteria for Designating Areas as Unsuitable for Surface Coal Mining Operations
Section XV-1303 - Criteria for Designating Lands as Unsuitable
Universal Citation: LA Admin Code XV-1303
Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024
A. Upon petition an area shall be designated as unsuitable for all or certain types of surface coal mining operations, if the office determines that reclamation is not technologically and economically feasible under the Act or these regulations.
B. Upon petition an area may be, but is not required to be, designated as unsuitable for certain types of surface coal mining operations, if the operations will:
1.
be incompatible with existing state or local land use plans or
programs;
2. affect fragile or
historic lands in which the operations could result in significant damage to
important historic, cultural, scientific or aesthetic values or natural
systems;
3. affect renewable
resource lands in which the operations could result in a substantial loss or
reduction of long-range productivity of water supply or of food or fiber
products;
4. affect natural hazard
lands in which the operations could substantially endanger life and property,
such lands to include areas subject to frequent flooding and areas of unstable
geology.
AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 30:901-932.
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