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...reby created within the department of administrative services the prescription drug transparency and affordability advisory council. The department shall provide administrative support to the advisory council as necessary for the advisory council to carry out its duties under this section. (1) Members of the advisory council shall include the following: (a) The director of administrative services; (b) The di...

...rms used by the tax commissioner for administration of taxes and programs, shall contain a conspicuous notice on the first page setting forth the authorization for the form and stating whether providing the information sought is required or voluntary, and any penalties that apply to failure to provide the information.

...ks, holes or depressions, repair areas, storage areas, processing areas, shipping areas, and other areas upon which are sited structures, facilities, or other property or materials on the surface, resulting from or incident to such activities. Separation by a stream, roadway, or utility easement does not preclude two or more contiguous tracts of land from being considered contiguous. (I) "Oper...

...S.C. 1201. If, upon expiration of the period of time as originally fixed or subsequently extended for good cause shown and upon the written finding of the chief or the authorized representative, the chief or the authorized representative finds that the violation has not been abated, the chief or the authorized representative immediately shall order the cessation of coal mining and reclamation operations or th...

...ces and shall serve for a probationary period of six months to the satisfaction of the chief. The chief may hire, pending the administration of a civil service examination and establishment of a civil service eligibility list, a person as a mineral resources inspector, who shall have the same authority as an inspector hired from an eligible list. This section does not affect the status of any person employed as...

...e shall: (A) Engage in coal or surface mining operations as a sole proprietor or as a partner; (B) Be an officer, director, stockholder, owner, or part-owner of any corporation engaged in coal or surface mining operations; (C) Be employed as an attorney, agent, or in any other capacity by any person engaged in coal or surface mining operations; (D) Have a direct or indirect financial interest in any coal mining o...

...tice in this state and is familiar with mining issues. Not more than four members shall be members of the same political party. The two additional members of the commission who are appointed specifically to hear appeals that involve mine safety issues shall be individuals who, because of previous vocation, employment, or affiliation, can be classified as representatives of employees currently engaged in mining opera...

...l shall be for a term not to exceed the period of the original permit established by this chapter. Application for permit renewal shall be made at least one hundred twenty days prior to the expiration of the valid permit. (5) A permit issued pursuant to this chapter does not eliminate the requirements for obtaining a permit to install or modify a disposal system or any part thereof or to discharge sewage, industria...

... operator's intention to conduct a coal mining operation on a particularly described tract of land and indicating the permit application number and where a copy of the proposed mining and reclamation plan may be inspected. The chief shall also notify the planning commissions with jurisdiction over all or part of the area to be permitted. These agencies, authorities, or companies may submit written comments on the app...

...description of the exploration area and period of proposed exploration; (2) Provisions for reclamation in accordance with the performance standards in section 1513.16 of the Revised Code of all lands disturbed in exploration, including excavations, roads, drill holes, and the removal of necessary facilities and equipment. (B) Information submitted to the chief pursuant to this section as confidential concerning tra...

...table for all or certain types of coal mining operations if the chief determines that reclamation pursuant to the requirements of this chapter is not technologically and economically feasible. (2) Upon petition pursuant to division (B) of this section, a surface area may be designated unsuitable for all or certain types of coal mining operations if the operations will: (a) Be incompatible with existing state ...

...An operator may file an application for an extension of a currently active permit to land contiguous to the permit area of the permit. The application shall be subject to the full standards applicable to new applications under this chapter, except that the applicant may incorporate by reference current information contained in the application for the original permit. If the original permit is unavailable or the info...

...ock strata proposed to be disturbed by mining and that is expressed by a numeral indicating the number of tons of that acidity that would be present in one thousand tons of disturbed overburden. (2) "Neutralization potential" means a laboratory measurement of the alkalinity of a rock strata expressed as the amount of acidity that would be neutralized by material proposed to be disturbed by mining and that is e...

...coordination of the issuance of coal mining and reclamation permits under this chapter and permits and certifications under Chapter 6111. of the Revised Code for coal mining and reclamation operations; (B) Provide for the direct cooperation of the staff of the environmental protection agency and the staff of the division of mineral resources management in the review and approval or denial of coal m...

... mining and reclamation operation for a period of not less than five years. If a permit is transferred, assigned, or sold, the transferee is not eligible to provide performance security under division (C)(2) of this section if the transferee has not held a permit issued under this chapter for any coal mining and reclamation operation for a period of not less than five years. This restriction applies even if the st...

...certificate of release in escrow for a period not to exceed one hundred eighty days for the purpose of facilitating the transfer of unreclaimed mine land. (E) All money from the collection of liens under this section shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the reclamation forfeiture fund created in section 1513.18 of the Revised Code.

...o be made such inspections of any coal mining and reclamation operations as the chief considers necessary. The chief and authorized representatives of the chief have a right of entry to, upon, or through any area of land upon which coal mining and reclamation operations are being conducted or upon which the chief or authorized representative has reason to believe such operations are being conducted for the purp...

...Every order of the chief of the division of mineral resources management or an authorized representative of the chief affecting the rights, duties, or privileges of an operator or the operator's surety or of an applicant for a license or permit shall be in writing and contain a finding of the facts upon which the order is based. Notice of the order shall be given by certified mail or personal service to the person wh...

...and shall complete reclamation within a period specified by the chief, or the chief shall declare as forfeited the performance security for the operation. (E)(1) Whenever an enforcement order or permit decision is appealed under this section or any action is filed under division (B) of section 1513.15 or 1513.39 of the Revised Code, at the request of a prevailing party, a sum equal to the aggregate amount of all cos...

... or any member of the commission may administer. Hearing officers designated by the commission shall have the same powers and authority in conducting the hearings as granted to the commission. Whenever a hearing officer conducts a hearing, the officer shall prepare a report setting forth the hearing officer's findings of fact and conclusions of law and a recommendation of the action to be taken by the commissi...

...(A) Any party aggrieved or adversely affected by a decision of the reclamation commission may appeal to the court of appeals for the county in which the activity addressed by the decision of the commission occurred, is occurring, or will occur, which court has exclusive jurisdiction over the appeal. The appeal shall be filed within thirty days of issuance of the decision of the commission. The court shall confine its...

...n pleas of the county in which the coal mining operation complained of is located. (F) The court, in issuing any final order in any action brought pursuant to division (B) of this section, may award to any party costs of litigation, including attorney's and expert witness fees that the court determines to have been necessary and reasonably incurred, in accordance with division (E)(2) of section 1513.13 of the Revise...

...division (A)(18) of this section, for a period of five full years after the last year of augmented seeding, fertilizing, irrigation, or other work in order to ensure compliance with that division, except that when the chief approves a long-term intensive agricultural postmining land use, the applicable five-year period of responsibility for revegetation shall commence at the date of initial planting for that long-ter...

...r to any blasting; (2) Maintain for a period of at least three years and make available for public inspection upon request a log detailing the location of the blasts, the pattern and depth of the drill holes, the amount of explosives used per hole, and the order and length of delay in the blasts; (3) Limit the type of explosives and detonating equipment, the size, and the timing and frequency of blasts based upon...

...(A) The operator of a coal mining operation shall replace the water supply of an owner of interest in real property who obtains all or part of his supply of water for domestic, agricultural, industrial, or other legitimate use from an underground or surface source where the supply has been affected by contamination, diminution, or interruption proximately resulting from the coal mining operation and shall reimburse t...