225 ILCS 720/2.02
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 225 - PROFESSIONS, OCCUPATIONS, AND BUSINESS OPERATIONS|225 ILCS 720/ - Surface Coal Mining Land Conservation and Reclamation Act.|Article II - Permits

 (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 7902.02)Sec. 2.02.     Contents of Permit Application.(a) Each permit application,  and each application for revision of a permit, submitted under this Act  shall contain all information, maps, surveys, data and other materials which  the Department by rule requires, in a form prescribed by the Department  by rule.  Such rules shall satisfy the requirements for permit applications  and for applications for revision of a permit under the Federal Act and  Regulations.(b) If the Department finds that the probable total annual production  at all locations of an operation will not exceed 300,000 tons,  the Department  shall provide assistance under this subsection to that operator to the extent  required under the Federal Act.  The following shall be performed for such  operator by a qualified public or private laboratory designated by the  Department  to the extent required by the Department by rule to be part of such operator's  application, and if such operator requests such assistance in writing:(1) the determination of probable hydrologic     consequences, including the engineering analyses and designs necessary for the determination;(2) the development of cross-section maps and plans;(3) the geologic drilling and statement of results of     test borings and core samplings;(4) the collection of archaeological information and     any other archaeological and historical information required by the Department, and the preparation of plans necessitated thereby;(5) pre-blast surveys; and(6) the collection of site-specific resource     information and production of protection and enhancement plans for fish and wildlife habitats and other environmental values required by the Department under this Act.The cost of the preparation of such determinations, test borings, core  samplings  and statements for such operator shall be paid by the Department to the  extent required under the Federal Act.  A coal operator that has received assistance pursuant to this subsection  shall reimburse the regulatory authority for the cost of the services rendered  if the program administrator finds that the operator's actual and attributed  annual production of coal for all locations exceeds 300,000 tons during the 12  months immediately following the date on which the operator is issued the  surface coal mining and reclamation permit.(c) With respect to applications for surface mining operations in cases  where the private mineral estate has been severed from the private surface  estate, the applicant shall submit to the Department with the application  either (1) the written consent of the surface owner to the extraction of  coal by surface mining operations, (2) a conveyance that expressly grants  or reserves the right to extract the coal by surface mining operations,  or (3) if the conveyance does not expressly grant the right to extract coal  by surface mining operations, a determination in accordance with State law  of the surface-subsurface legal relationship.    (Source: P.A. 88-599, eff. 9-1-94.)