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MS Code § 53-7-71 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 7 - Surface Mining and Reclamation of Land|§ 53-7-71. Reclamation work; utilizing services of governmental agencies and private contractors; competitive bidding; right of access

 In the reclamation of land affected by surface mining for which it has funds available, the commission may avail itself of any services which may be provided by other state agencies, political subdivisions or the federal government, and may compensate them for the services. The commission may cause the reclamation work to be done through contract with other governmental agencies or with qualified persons. The contracts shall be awarded as provided by state law and policies of the commission. Any person under contract to the commission may enter onto the land affected to carry out the reclamation.
MS Code § 53-7-75 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 7 - Surface Mining and Reclamation of Land|§ 53-7-75. Disclosure of confidential information; penalty; application of Trade Secrets Act

  Information submitted to the department, commission, Permit Board or local soil and water conservation district pertaining to the deposits of materials, trade secrets or privileged commercial or financial information relating to the competitive rights of the applicant and which is specifically identified as confidential, shall not be available for public examination and shall not be considered as a public record if:   The applicant submits a written confidentiality claim to the commission before submission of the information; and   The commission determines the confidentiality claim to be valid.     The confidentiality claim shall include a generic description of the nature of the information included in the submission. The commission shall adopt rules and regulations consistent with the Mississippi Public Records Act regarding access to confidential information. Any information for which a confidentiality claim is asserted shall not be disclosed pending the outcome of any formal hearing and all appeals.   Any person knowingly and willfully making unauthorized disclosures of any information determined to be confidential shall be liable for civil damages arising from the unauthorized disclosure and, upon conviction, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined a sum not to exceed One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) and dismissed from public office or employment.   This section shall be supplemental to remedies for misappropriation of a trade secret provided in the Mississippi Uniform Trade Secrets Act, Sections 75-26-1 through 75-26-19.
MS Code § 53-7-77 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 7 - Surface Mining and Reclamation of Land|§ 53-7-77. Surface Mine Worker Safety Training Program Operations Fund

    There is created in the State Treasury a special fund to be designated as the Surface Mine Worker Safety Training Program Operations Fund, referred to in this section as "special fund," to be administered by the executive director. The special fund shall consist of monies as may be appropriated by the Legislature and any other monies authorized under this section.   Monies in the special fund shall be utilized to pay reasonable direct and indirect costs associated with surface mine worker safety training provided by the department including, but not limited to, matching funds for federal grants to meet federal grant requirements to pay a proportional share of the total cost of the training.   Expenditures may be made from the special fund upon requisition by the executive director.   The special fund may receive monies from any available public or private source including, but not limited to, collection of fees, interest, grants, taxes, public and private donations, judicial actions and appropriated funds.   Unexpended amounts remaining in the special fund at the end of a fiscal year shall not lapse into the State General Fund, and any interest earned on amounts in the special fund shall be deposited to the credit of the special fund.       The commission shall set by order the fee for surface mine worker safety training, not to exceed the cost of providing the training.   All monies collected under this subsection shall be deposited into the special fund.   The commission may delegate to the department responsibility for the collection of fees under this subsection.   Any person required to pay a fee under this subsection who disagrees with the calculation or applicability of the fee may petition the commission for a hearing in accordance with Sections 49-17-33 and 49-17-35.   Fees collected under this subsection shall not supplant or reduce in any way the general fund appropriation to the department.
MS Code § 53-10-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 10 - Interstate Mining Compact|§ 53-10-1. Findings and purposes

 The Legislature finds and declares that:   Within the state, mining constitutes a significant aspect of the state's economy.   The Interstate Mining Compact was established in 1966 to provide a forum for states having significant mining to exchange ideas on mining technology, conservation, and reclamation practices and to generate consensus policies for use as desired by member states and for input at the congressional and federal regulatory level of government.   Membership in the Compact by the state will provide the Governor, as the representative of the state on the Interstate Mining Compact Commission, direct input on significant mining issues and policies and access to ideas and sources of information, not otherwise available, which may enable the state to initiate progressive or desired policies and mining control techniques that will be to the benefit of the citizens of Mississippi and the mining industry in the state.   The purposes of the Interstate Mining Compact are recognized to be to:   Advance the protection and restoration of land, water, and other resources affected by mining.   Assist in the reduction, elimination, or counteracting of pollution or deterioration of land, water, and air attributable to mining.   Encourage, with due recognition of relevant regional, physical, and other differences, programs in each of the party states which will achieve comparable results in protecting, conserving, and improving the usefulness of natural resources, to the end that the most desirable conduct of mining and related operations may be universally facilitated.   Assist the party states in their efforts to facilitate the use of land and other resources affected by mining, so that such use may be consistent with sound land use, public health, and public safety, and to this end to study and recommend, wherever desirable, techniques for the improvement, restoration, or protection of such land and other resources.   Assist in achieving and maintaining an efficient and productive mining industry and in increasing economic and other benefits attributable to mining.
MS Code § 53-10-2 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 10 - Interstate Mining Compact|§ 53-10-2. Membership

 Pursuant to the findings of the Legislature and subject to the limitations hereinafter set forth, the State of Mississippi hereby adopts the Interstate Mining Compact as embodied in the findings and purposes set forth above, and the state through the Office of the Governor is authorized to join and participate in the Interstate Mining Compact through membership on the Interstate Mining Compact Commission.   The Governor may appoint a designee to serve as the Governor's official representative to the compact and to perform any functions in connection with the business of the compact.
MS Code § 53-10-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 10 - Interstate Mining Compact|§ 53-10-3. Limitations

 No provisions of the Interstate Mining Compact, nor any policies of the Interstate Mining Compact Commission, shall be construed to limit, repeal, or supersede any law of the State of Mississippi.   The Governor and the Legislature, or agents of either, shall have the right to inspect the books and accounts of the Interstate Mining Compact Commission at any reasonable time while the state is a member.   A copy of the bylaws of the Interstate Mining Compact Commission shall be placed on file with the Director of the Office of Geology, Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality, and be available for inspection at any reasonable time by the Legislature or any interested citizen.
MS Code § 53-10-4 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 10 - Interstate Mining Compact|§ 53-10-4. Expenses

 The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality may pay annually out of funds collected from Surface Coal Mining Permit Fees, or from funds granted to the state by the federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, the annual membership dues payable to the Interstate Mining Compact Commission for the membership of the State of Mississippi in that organization.
MS Code § 53-10-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 10 - Interstate Mining Compact|§ 53-10-5. General power of Governor and withdrawal

 Within the limitations of this section, the Governor shall be entitled to exercise all the power of his office necessary in his judgment to maintain the state in good standing as a member and to participate therein.   After the Governor has provided one (1) year's notice in writing to the governors of all other member states, the Legislature, by appropriate repealing legislation, may withdraw the state from the Interstate Mining Compact.
MS Code § 53-11-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 11 - Mississippi Geologic Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide Act|§ 53-11-1. Short title

 This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Mississippi Geologic Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide Act."
MS Code § 53-11-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 11 - Mississippi Geologic Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide Act|§ 53-11-7. Duties and powers of the board; rules and regulations; permits

  The board shall have authority to regulate and promulgate rules and regulations governing geologic sequestration of carbon dioxide and underground injection wells under this chapter within reservoirs. Rules and regulations governing injection wells for geologic sequestration not regulated under the board's authority for Class II wells shall be subject to approval of the commission to be included in a memorandum of understanding between the board and the commission.   The board shall have authority to:   Approve geologic sequestration of carbon dioxide and the operation of a geologic sequestration facility within a reservoir as defined in this chapter.   Regulate the development and operation of geologic sequestration facilities and pipelines within geologic sequestration facilities, provided those pipelines serving such facilities approved hereunder are not otherwise covered under applicable law.   Perform any and all acts necessary to carry out the purposes and requirements of the federal Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended, with respect to the sequestration of carbon dioxide within reservoirs.   Approve conversion of an existing enhanced oil or gas recovery operation into a geologic sequestration facility and continuing of the authority and prior approvals of the board regarding unit operations.   Approve use of carbon dioxide for enhanced oil or gas recovery and for simultaneous geologic sequestration within a reservoir.   Establish requirements for reasonable performance bonds, deposits, or other assurances of performance consistent with federal statutes, rules and regulations connected with Class VI underground injection control wells to be posted as a condition to or requirement for approving an application by the storage operator, and requirements for the sufficiency and character of the surety and guarantors of performance bonds, deposits, or other assurances of performance and reasonable conditions under which the bonds or deposits shall be released.   Make, after notice and hearings as provided in Sections 53-1-19 through 53-1-37, any reasonable rules, regulations and orders that are necessary from time to time in the proper administration and enforcement of this chapter. To that end, the board is authorized and empowered to adopt, modify, repeal and enforce procedural, interpretive and administrative rules in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.     Only a storage operator shall be held or deemed responsible for the performance of any actions required by the board under this chapter.   The board shall issue such orders, rules and regulations as may be necessary for the purpose of protecting any reservoir, strata, or formation against the escape of carbon dioxide therefrom, including any necessary rules and regulations as may pertain to the drilling into or through a geologic sequestration reservoir within the board's jurisdiction.
MS Code § 53-11-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 11 - Mississippi Geologic Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide Act|§ 53-11-9. Approval of reservoir storage; title to carbon dioxide

  The board may enter an order, after notice and hearing pursuant to the provisions of Sections 53-1-19 through 53-1-37, approving any proposed geologic sequestration of carbon dioxide. The board shall be authorized to issue an order upon finding the following:   That the reservoir sought to be used as a reservoir for the injection, storage and withdrawal of carbon dioxide is suitable and feasible for such use and in the public interest;   That a majority interest, as provided in this chapter, have consented to such use in writing;   That there is no reasonable risk that the use of the reservoir for the storage of carbon dioxide will injure or endanger other formations containing fresh water, oil, gas or other commercial mineral deposits;   That there is no reasonable risk that the proposed storage will endanger human lives or cause a hazardous condition to property; and   In the case of a reservoir that may contain oil, gas or other commercial minerals, that either:   The reservoir has been substantially depleted of all volumes of reservoir oil, gas or other commercial minerals and the requirements of Sections 53-11-11 and 53-11-13 have been satisfied; or   The reservoir has a greater value or utility as a reservoir for carbon dioxide storage than for the production of the remaining volumes of reservoir oil, gas, condensate or other commercial mineral, if any, and the requirements of Sections 53-11-11 and 53-11-13 have been satisfied. Approval of a geologic sequestration facility by the board shall provide full and complete authority for the construction, equipping and operation of the geologic sequestration facility without need of further action or grant by any person.       Neither injection nor an order of the board shall affect ownership of the carbon dioxide or inhibit the voluntary conveyance of title to the carbon dioxide by the owner. The board may issue any necessary order to protect the title of an owner to carbon dioxide injected into a geologic sequestration facility. The carbon dioxide shall not be subject to the right of any person other than the owner of the carbon dioxide to produce, take, reduce to possession, or otherwise interfere with or exercise any control thereover. The owner of the carbon dioxide shall have no right to gas, liquid hydrocarbons, salt or other commercial minerals in any stratum or portion thereof not determined by the board to constitute an approved sequestration reservoir which are not otherwise owned or leased by the owner.
MS Code § 53-11-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 11 - Mississippi Geologic Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide Act|§ 53-11-13. Order requiring unit operation of a geologic sequestration facility

 If the board finds pursuant to Section 53-11-9(1) that a reservoir shall be operated as a unit for a geologic sequestration facility, the board may issue an order requiring such unit operation, if it finds that:   Unit operation of the reservoir is reasonably necessary in order to create and operate an approved geologic sequestration facility in the reservoir;   The unit for the geologic sequestration facility and the agreements effectuating the unit are fair and reasonable under all of the circumstances and protect the rights of all interests in the oil, gas or other commercial minerals where applicable, and the owners of interests in the surface acreage of the unit area, and owners of interests in the carbon dioxide injected or to be injected in the reservoir;   The correlative rights of all owners of interests in the oil, gas or other commercial minerals where applicable, and the owners of interests in the surface acreage of the unit area, and owners of interests in the carbon dioxide injected or to be injected in the reservoir will be protected;   The cost incident to conducting the geologic sequestration operation will not be borne by the royalty owners of the oil, gas or other commercial minerals except for post-production treating, processing, transportation, and marketing expenses when concurrent production occurs with the geologic sequestration operation; and   The storage operator or a predecessor operator of a proposed sequestration facility has demonstrated the boundaries of the unit as may be necessary for the board to approve the unit by the drilling of wells to sufficient depths and locations, or by other geological or engineering interpretations which may include those from logging, coring, modeling or monitoring.
MS Code § 53-11-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 11 - Mississippi Geologic Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide Act|§ 53-11-17. Hearings before the board; notice; rules of procedures; emergency; service of process; public records; request for hearings; orders and compliance orders

 All public hearings before the board under this chapter shall be conducted pursuant to the provisions of Sections 53-1-19 through 53-1-37.
MS Code § 53-11-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 11 - Mississippi Geologic Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide Act|§ 53-11-19. Compliance and enforcement

  Whenever the board or an authorized representative of the board determines that a violation of any requirement of this chapter has occurred or is threatened, the board shall be authorized to either issue an order requiring compliance within a specified time period or commence a civil action for appropriate relief, including a temporary or permanent injunction.   Any compliance order issued by the board under this chapter shall state with reasonable specificity the nature of the violation and specify a time for compliance and, in the event of noncompliance, assess a civil penalty, if any, which the board determines is reasonable of not more than Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) a day for each day of violation and for each act of violation, taking into account the seriousness of the violation and any good faith efforts to comply with the applicable requirements.   Except as otherwise provided by law, any person to whom a compliance order is issued and who fails to take corrective action within the time specified in the order or any person found by the board to be in violation of any requirement of this section may be liable for a civil penalty, to be assessed by the board or court, of not more than Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) per day for each day of violation and for each act of violation. In order to enforce the provisions of this section, the board may suspend or revoke any permit, compliance order, license, or variance that has been issued to a person in accordance with law. No penalty shall be assessed by the board until the person charged has been given notice and an opportunity for a hearing on the charge. In determining whether a civil penalty is to be assessed and in determining the amount of the penalty, or the amount agreed upon in compromise, the gravity of the violation and the demonstrated good faith of the person charged in attempting to achieve rapid compliance, after notification of a violation, shall be considered.   The board, or Attorney General if requested by the board, shall have charge of and shall prosecute all civil cases arising out of violation of any provision of this section including the recovery of penalties.   Except as otherwise provided by law, the board may settle or resolve as the board may deem advantageous to the state any suits, disputes or claims within the jurisdiction of the board for any penalty under any provisions of this section or the regulations or permit license terms and conditions applicable thereto.
MS Code § 53-11-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 11 - Mississippi Geologic Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide Act|§ 53-11-21. Effect of acting as storage operator

 Any provision in this chapter, or in any rule, regulation or order issued by the board under this chapter to the contrary notwithstanding, acting as a storage operator pursuant to this chapter in compliance with the provisions of this chapter, or with rules, regulations or orders issued by the board under this chapter, or voluntarily performing any act or acts which could be required by the board pursuant to this chapter, or rules, regulations or orders issued by the board under this chapter, shall not:   Cause any storage operator or transporter of carbon dioxide for storage to become, or be classified as, a common carrier or a public utility for any purpose whatsoever.   Subject the storage operator or carbon dioxide transporter to any duties, obligations or liabilities as a common carrier or public utility, under the Constitution and laws of this state.
MS Code § 53-11-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 11 - Mississippi Geologic Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide Act|§ 53-11-25. Cessation of storage operations

  After cessation of injection into a geologic sequestration facility and upon application by the storage operator, the board shall be authorized to issue a certificate of completion of injection operations upon a showing by the storage operator that the reservoir is reasonably expected to retain mechanical integrity, and that carbon dioxide will reasonably remain emplaced.   Nothing in this chapter shall establish or create any liability or responsibility on the part of the board or the state to pay any costs associated with facility restoration from any source other than the performance bond, deposit, other assurance of performance, or financial assurances posted or required pursuant to this chapter, nor shall the board or the state have any liability or responsibility to make any payments for costs associated with facility restoration.   The board or its agents, on proper identification, may enter the land of another for purposes of facility assessment or restoration.   The board and its agents are not liable for any damages arising from an act or omission if the act or omission is part of a good faith effort to carry out the purpose of this chapter.   No party contracting with the state or any of its political subdivisions under the provisions of this chapter shall be deemed to be a public employee or agent of the State of Mississippi or any of its political subdivisions.
MS Code § 53-11-29 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 11 - Mississippi Geologic Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide Act|§ 53-11-29. Refusing to monitor or producing false or inaccurate readings

 It shall be a violation of this chapter for any person to refuse to attach or install a monitor within a reasonable period of time when ordered to do so by the board, or in any way to tamper with the monitors so as to produce a false or inaccurate reading.