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... 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...

...sued under this chapter to conduct coal mining operations shall require that the operations meet all applicable performance standards of this chapter and such other requirements as the chief of the division of mineral resources management shall adopt by rule. General performance standards shall apply to all coal mining and reclamation operations and shall require the operator at a minimum to do all of the following: ...

.... If, in any situation involving a coal mining operation, except when underground coal mining is part or all of the coal mining operation, a rule adopted pursuant to Chapter 1567. of the Revised Code is in conflict with a rule adopted pursuant to this section, the rule adopted pursuant to this section prevails. When underground coal mining is part or all of the coal mining operation, the rule adopted pursuant to Chap...

...(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...

...A) No person shall: (1) Engage in coal mining or conduct a coal mining operation without a permit issued by the chief of the division of mineral resources management; (2) Knowingly violate a condition or exceed the limits of a permit; (3) Knowingly fail to comply with an order of the chief issued under this chapter; (4) Knowingly violate any provision of this chapter not specifically mentioned in this section; (...

...ve been adversely affected by past coal mining for which the performance security was forfeited. The chief shall provide the application form. The application shall include all of the following: (1) The operator's name, address, and telephone number; (2) The valid permit number of the operator; (3) An identification of the area or areas to be reclaimed; (4) An identification of the owner of the land; (5) A recla...

...claiming areas of land affected by coal mining under a coal mining and reclamation permit issued on or after September 1, 1981, on which an operator has defaulted. (B) The fund also shall consist of all money from the collection of liens under section 1513.081 of the Revised Code, all money credited to the fund from the fee levied by division (F)(8)(c) of section 1513.16 of the Revised Code, fines collected under di...

...e a representative of operators of coal mining operations that have valid permits issued under this chapter and that have provided performance security under division (C)(1) of section 1513.08 of the Revised Code, one shall be a representative of operators of coal mining operations that have valid permits issued under this chapter and that have provided performance security under division (C)(2) of section 1513.08 of...

... land, including land affected by strip mining, for which no cash is held in the reclamation forfeiture fund created by section 1513.18 of the Revised Code. For this purpose the chief may expend money deposited in the mining regulation and safety fund created by section 1513.30 of the Revised Code. All lands purchased or acquired shall be deeded to the state, but no deed shall be accepted or the purchase price paid u...

...From moneys appropriated for this purpose, the chief of the division of mineral resources management shall reclaim any land or tract of land acquired pursuant to section 1513.20 of the Revised Code in such manner that, after reclamation, such land or tract shall be suitable for agriculture, forests, recreation, wildlife, water conservation, or such other use as the chief may deem proper for such land, or tract of lan...

...Before proceeding to reclaim any land or tract of land acquired pursuant to section 1513.20 of the Revised Code, the chief of the division of mineral resources management shall determine the purpose or purposes for which such land or tract should be devoted after reclamation and shall develop a plan of reclamation for such land or tract reasonably designed to accomplish such purpose or purposes and an estimate of the...

...In determining the purpose or purposes for which any land or tract of land should be devoted after reclamation and in preparing a plan of reclamation, the chief of the division of mineral resources management may call to the chief's assistance, temporarily, any engineers or other employees in any state department or in the Ohio state university, or other educational institutions financed wholly or in part by the stat...

...After a plan of reclamation is approved by the director of natural resources, the chief of the division of mineral resources management, from any moneys appropriated for the reclamation of strip mined lands, shall proceed to carry out the plan. With the approval of the director, the chief may carry out any such plan or any part of such plan with the employees and equipment of any division of the department of natura...

...ses, or royalties, shall be paid to the mining regulation and safety fund created in section 1513.30 of the Revised Code.

...The chief of the division of mineral resources management shall make an annual report to the governor and to the general assembly. The report shall identify each reclamation project, state the number of acres reclaimed by the division or persons with whom it contracts under sections 1513.20 to 1513.25 of the Revised Code, identify the county in which the project is located, and make a detailed accounting of expenditu...

...ner of any unreclaimed land affected by mining before April 10, 1972, or pursuant to a license issued before April 10, 1972, that causes or may cause pollution of the waters of the state or damage to adjacent property, is not likely to be mined in the foreseeable future, and lies within the boundaries of a project area approved by the chief under section 1513.30 of the Revised Code, under which the state or its agent...

...rces, may make grants of money from the mining regulation and safety fund created by section 1513.30 of the Revised Code for the payment by the state of up to seventy-five per cent of the reasonable and necessary reclamation expenses incurred by the owner of any unreclaimed land affected by mining before April 10, 1972, or pursuant to a license issued before April 10, 1972, that causes or may cause pollution of the w...

...ereby created in the state treasury the mining regulation and safety fund, to be administered by the chief of the division of mineral resources management. The fund shall be used for the following purposes: (1) Reclaiming land, public or private, affected by mining, or controlling mine drainage, for which no cash is held in the reclamation forfeiture fund created in section 1513.18 of the Revised Code; (2) Specifie...

...rces, may make grants of money from the mining regulation and safety fund created by section 1513.30 of the Revised Code for the payment by the state of up to seventy-five per cent of the reasonable and necessary expenses incurred by a political subdivision, community improvement corporation incorporated under Chapter 1724. of the Revised Code, or other nonprofit corporation incorporated under Chapter 1702. of the Re...

...t owns any unreclaimed land affected by mining before April 10, 1972, or pursuant to a license issued before April 10, 1972, under which the state or its agents may enter upon the land to reclaim it at state expense with money from the mining regulation and safety fund created by section 1513.30 of the Revised Code for the purpose of commercial or industrial site development if the land is owned by a political subdiv...

...r this section shall be credited to the mining regulation and safety fund created by section 1513.30 of the Revised Code.

...The chief of the division of mineral resources management shall provide education and training for all mineral resources inspectors, district supervisors, and enforcement personnel. The chief shall provide, on a regular basis as funding allows, continuing education and training as necessary for all mineral resources inspectors, district supervisors, and enforcement personnel.

...f the Revised Code for underground coal mining shall require the operator to: (1) Implement measures consistent with known technology in order to prevent subsidence from causing material damage to the extent technologically and economically feasible, maximize mine stability, and maintain the value and reasonably foreseeable use of such surface lands, except in those instances where the mining technology used require...