Virginia Administrative Code
Title 4 - CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES
Agency 25 - DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Chapter 130 - COAL SURFACE MINING RECLAMATION REGULATIONS
Part 816 - Permanent Program Performance Standards-Surface Mining Activities
Section 4VAC25-130-816.111 - Revegetation; general requirements
Current through Register Vol. 41, No. 3, September 23, 2024
(a) The permittee shall establish on regraded areas and on all other disturbed areas except water areas and surface areas of roads that are approved as part of the postmining land use, a vegetative cover that is in accordance with the approved permit and reclamation plan and that is-
(b) The reestablished plant species shall-
(c) The division may grant exception to the requirements of Paragraphs (b)(2) and (b)(3) of this section when the species are necessary to achieve a quick-growing, temporary, stabilizing cover, and measures to establish permanent vegetation are included in the approved permit and reclamation plan.
(d) When the division approves a cropland postmining land use, the division may grant exception to the requirements of Paragraphs (a)(1), (a)(3), (b)(2), and (b)(3) of this section. The requirements of Part 823 apply to areas identified as prime farmland.
Statutory Authority
§§ 45.1-161.3 and 45.1-230 of the Code of Virginia.