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MS Code § 53-9-26 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 9 - Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation of Land|Mississippi Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation Law|§ 53-9-26. Surface coal mining and reclamation permit; application cost assistance to small operators

 If the Permit Board finds that the probable total annual production at all locations of a surface coal mining operator will not exceed three hundred thousand (300,000) tons, the cost of conducting activities to obtain and provide the information required to be contained in the permit application as determined by the commission consistent with Section 507(c) of the federal act shall be assumed by the department, subject to the availability of federal or other special funds for that purpose and upon written request of the operator. All work under this section shall be performed by a qualified public or private laboratory or other public or private qualified entity designated by the department.
MS Code § 53-9-27 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 9 - Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation of Land|Mississippi Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation Law|§ 53-9-27. Filing of permit application with chancery court clerk; public inspection; exclusion of confidential information

 Each applicant for a permit shall file, within ten (10) days after filing with the permit board, a copy of its application for public inspection with the clerk of the chancery court of the county or judicial district where the mining is to occur and where real property contiguous to the surface coal mining and reclamation operation is located, if that property is located in more than one (1) county or judicial district. The applicant may omit from its filing information in its permit application pertaining to the quality, depth or width of the coal seam or the location of the coal seam within the permit area included in the application, if that information has been determined to be confidential by the commission under Section 53-9-43.
MS Code § 53-9-28 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 9 - Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation of Land|Mississippi Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation Law|§ 53-9-28. Surface coal mining and reclamation permit; permit fees

  The commission shall assess and collect a permit fee for reviewing the permit application and administering and enforcing a surface coal mining and reclamation permit. The commission may set permit fees for the transfer, modification or reissuance of a surface coal mining and reclamation permit.   The commission may also establish a permit fee for the issuance, reissuance, transfer or modification of a coal exploration permit and a reasonable fee for a copy of a transcript of a formal hearing held under this chapter.   The commission shall set by order the amount of any permit fee assessed under this section. A permit fee may be less than, but shall not exceed the actual or anticipated direct and indirect costs of reviewing the permit application and administering and enforcing the permit. The commission may establish procedures to allow the assessment and collection of the permit fee over the term of the permit.
MS Code § 53-9-29 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 9 - Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation of Land|Mississippi Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation Law|§ 53-9-29. Reclamation plan included in application; contents

 The reclamation plan shall include in the degree of detail as the commission may require by regulation:    An identification of lands subject to surface coal mining operations over the estimated life of those operations;   Information about the condition and variety of uses of the land at the time of the application and the proposed uses of the land after reclamation;   A description of how reclamation is to be achieved, including a schedule of and timetable for significant reclamation activities;   An estimate of reclamation costs;   The steps to be taken to comply with applicable air and water quality standards, health and safety standards and performance standards applicable to reclamation adopted under this chapter; and   Any other information consistent with the federal act as the permit board or commission may require to demonstrate that the reclamation required by this chapter can be accomplished.
MS Code § 53-9-32 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 9 - Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation of Land|Mississippi Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation Law|§ 53-9-32. Surface coal mining and reclamation permit; preparation of plain language summary of proposed operation and reclamation

 Upon receipt of a complete application for a surface coal mining and reclamation operation, the state geologist shall prepare a brief written summary of the proposed operation and reclamation. This summary shall be written in language understandable to the general public and shall be made available to the public at the department and at each location where the applicant is required to place a copy of the application for public inspection.
MS Code § 53-9-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 9 - Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation of Land|Mississippi Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation Law|§ 53-9-35. Surface coal mining and reclamation permit; revisions

  During the term of the permit, the permittee may submit an application for a revision of the permit and a revised reclamation plan, to the department in accordance with regulations promulgated by the commission.   An application for a revision of a permit shall not be approved unless the executive director finds that reclamation as required by this chapter and the regulations promulgated under this chapter can be accomplished under the revised reclamation plan. The revision shall be granted or denied by the executive director within a period of time established in the regulations promulgated by the commission. The commission shall also promulgate regulations for determination of the extent to which a revision application shall comply with this chapter, including notice and hearing requirements. A decision by the executive director to grant or deny a revision of a permit shall be subject to formal hearing and appeal as would an initial decision of the permit board under Section 49-17-29.   Any extensions to the area covered by the permit except incidental boundary revisions must be made by application for a new permit. A revision shall not be considered a modification.
MS Code § 53-9-41 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 9 - Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation of Land|Mississippi Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation Law|§ 53-9-41. Coal exploration permit; application; limitation on removal; penalty for disturbing land surface

  Coal exploration operations which substantially disturb the natural land surface shall be conducted in accordance with the regulations promulgated by the commission governing those operations. The regulations shall require any person planning to conduct exploration operations to obtain an exploration permit from the permit board before conducting those operations. The permit application shall require the applicant to give a description of the exploration area and the period of proposed exploration, provisions for reclamation in accordance with the performance standards in the regulations promulgated under Section 53-9-45 of all lands disturbed in exploration, including excavations, roads, drill holes and the removal of necessary facilities and equipment, and any other information as the permit board or commission may require.   Any person who conducts any coal exploration activities which substantially disturb the natural land surface in violation of this section or regulations promulgated under this chapter shall be subject to Sections 53-9-55 through 53-9-57 and Section 53-9-63.   No operator shall remove more than two hundred fifty (250) tons of coal under an exploration permit without the specific written approval of the permit board.
MS Code § 53-9-43 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 9 - Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation of Land|Mississippi Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation Law|§ 53-9-43. Confidentiality claims; penalties

  Information submitted to the department, commission or permit board concerning trade secrets or privileged commercial or financial information relating to the competitive rights of an 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 the 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 promulgate 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 is supplemental to remedies for misappropriation of a trade secret provided in the Mississippi Uniform Trade Secrets Act.
MS Code § 53-9-49 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 9 - Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation of Land|Mississippi Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation Law|§ 53-9-49. Authorized departures from performance standards; experimental practices

 To encourage advances in mining and reclamation practices or to allow postmining land use for industrial, commercial, residential or public use, including recreational facilities, the commission, with the approval of the United States Secretary of the Interior or the secretary's designee, may authorize departures in individual cases on an experimental basis from the environmental protection performance standards promulgated under Sections 53-9-45 and 53-9-47. Those departures may be authorized if:   The experimental practices are at least as environmentally protective during and after mining operations as those required by promulgated standards;   The mining operations approved for particular land-use or other purposes are not larger or more numerous than necessary to determine the effectiveness and economic feasibility of the experimental practices; and   The experimental practices do not reduce the protection afforded public health and safety below that provided by promulgated standards.
MS Code § 53-9-53 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 9 - Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation of Land|Mississippi Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation Law|§ 53-9-53. Sign at entrance of surface coal mining and reclamation operation

 Each permittee shall conspicuously maintain at the entrance to the surface coal mining and reclamation operation a clearly visible sign which sets forth the name, business address and phone number of the permittee and the permit number of the surface coal mining and reclamation operations. The sign shall also state that questions and complaints regarding the surface coal mining and reclamation operations may be directed to the department and shall provide the department's telephone number.
MS Code § 53-9-57 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 9 - Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation of Land|Mississippi Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation Law|§ 53-9-57. Criminal penalties; violation of condition of permit or order

 Any person who willfully and knowingly violates this chapter or any regulation or written order of the commission promulgated or issued under this chapter or any condition of a permit, or makes any false statement, representation or certification or knowingly fails to make any statement, representation or certification in any application, record, report, plan or other document filed or required to be maintained under a regulation or written order of the commission promulgated or issued under this chapter, shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not more than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) or by imprisonment for not more than one (1) year, or both.
MS Code § 53-9-61 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 9 - Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation of Land|Mississippi Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation Law|§ 53-9-61. Criminal penalties; resisting, preventing, impeding, or interfering with performance of duties

 Any person who, except as permitted by law, willfully resists, impedes or interferes with the commission, permit board or any authorized representative of the department in the performance of duties under this chapter shall be punished by a fine of not more than Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) or by imprisonment for not more than one (1) year, or both.
MS Code § 53-9-63 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 9 - Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation of Land|Mississippi Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation Law|§ 53-9-63. Nonexclusivity of penalty provisions

 Nothing in Sections 53-9-55 through 53-9-57 shall be construed to eliminate any additional enforcement right or procedures which are available under state law to a state agency but which are not specifically enumerated in this chapter.
MS Code § 53-9-73 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 9 - Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation of Land|Mississippi Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation Law|§ 53-9-73. Cooperation with Secretary of Interior

 The commission may enter into a cooperative agreement with the United States Secretary of the Interior to provide for state regulation of surface coal mining and reclamation operations on federal lands within the state.
MS Code § 53-9-75 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 9 - Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation of Land|Mississippi Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation Law|§ 53-9-75. Application of chapter to public corporations

 Any agency, unit or instrumentality of federal, state or local government, including any public-owned utility or publicly-owned corporation of federal, state or local government, which proposes to engage in surface coal mining operations subject to this chapter, shall comply with this chapter.
MS Code § 53-9-77 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 9 - Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation of Land|Mississippi Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation Law|§ 53-9-77. Administrative review; appeal of decisions of the permit board

  Unless otherwise expressly provided in this chapter, any interested party aggrieved by any action of the permit board taken under this chapter may request a formal hearing before the permit board as provided in Section 49-17-29(4). Any interested party aggrieved by any action of the commission, executive director or the executive director's authorized representative taken under this chapter may request a formal hearing before the commission as provided in Section 49-17-41. Any person who participated as a party in a formal hearing before the permit board may appeal from a final decision of the permit board made under this chapter as provided in Section 49-17-29(5). Any person who participated as a party in a formal hearing before the commission may appeal from a final decision of the commission made under this chapter as provided in Section 49-17-41.     Any public hearing of the permit board provided for under this chapter shall be deemed to be the same hearing as otherwise afforded to any interested party by the permit board under Section 49-17-29(4)(a). Any formal hearing of the permit board provided for under this chapter shall be deemed to be the same hearing as otherwise afforded to any interested party by the permit board under Section 49-17-29(4)(b).   Any public hearing of the commission provided for under this chapter shall be deemed to be the same hearing as afforded under Section 49-17-35. Any formal hearing of the commission provided for under this chapter shall be deemed to be the same hearing as afforded under Section 49-17-41.       In conducting any formal hearing under this chapter the permit board shall have the same authority to subpoena witnesses, administer oaths, examine witnesses under oath and conduct the hearing as provided in Section 49-17-29.   In conducting any formal hearing under this chapter the commission shall have the same authority to subpoena witnesses, administer oaths, examine witnesses under oath and conduct the hearing as provided in Section 49-17-41.       The commission may appoint a hearing officer to conduct any formal hearing under this chapter. The hearing officer shall have the same authority to conduct the hearing as provided the commission under Section 49-17-41.   Upon written request by an alleged violator under Section 53-9-69, the commission or the hearing officer shall conduct a formal hearing and may, upon the basis of evidence presented at the hearing, stay any action taken by the executive director or the executive director's authorized representative under Section 53-9-69. The hearing officer may require a bond, if the hearing officer stays the action.     Except as provided in Section 53-9-67, the availability of judicial review under this section shall not limit any rights established under Section 53-9-67.
MS Code § 53-9-81 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 9 - Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation of Land|Mississippi Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation Law|§ 53-9-81. Inapplicability of chapter

 This chapter shall not apply to any of the following activities:   The extraction of coal by a landowner for that landowner's own noncommercial use from land owned or leased by the landowner; and   The extraction of coal as an incidental part of federal, state or local financed highways or other construction under regulations promulgated by the commission.
MS Code § 53-9-83 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 9 - Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation of Land|Mississippi Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation Law|§ 53-9-83. Lease of state coal deposits

  This section applies where coal owned by the state under land, the surface rights to which are owned by a surface owner as defined in this section, is to be mined by methods other than underground mining techniques.   The state shall not enter into any lease of state coal deposits until the surface owner has given written consent to enter and commence surface coal mining and reclamation operations and the commission has obtained evidence of that consent. Written consent given by any surface owner before July 1, 1979, shall be deemed sufficient for the purposes of complying with this section.   In order to minimize disturbance to surface owners from surface coal mining of state coal deposits and to assist in the preparation of comprehensive land-use plans, the state geologist shall consult with any surface owner whose land is proposed to be included in a leasing tract and shall ask the surface owner to declare a preference for or against the offering of the deposit under this land for lease. The state shall, in its discretion but to the maximum extent practicable, refrain from leasing coal deposits for development by methods other than underground mining techniques in those areas where a significant number of surface owners have declared a preference against the offering of the deposits for lease.   For the purpose of this section, "surface owner" means the natural person or persons, or corporation, the majority stock of which is held by a person or persons who meet the other requirements of this section, who:   Hold legal or equitable title to the land surface;   Have their principal place of residence on the land or are personally conducting farming or ranching operations upon a farm or ranch unit which is to be affected by surface coal mining and reclamation operations, or receive directly a significant portion of their income, if any, from those farming or ranching operations; and   Have met the conditions of paragraphs (a) and (b) for at least three (3) years before granting consent.  In computing the three-year period, the commission may include periods during which title was owned by a relative of that person by blood or marriage during which period the relative would have met the requirements of this subsection.      Nothing in this section shall be construed as increasing or diminishing any property rights held by the state or by any other landowner.
MS Code § 53-9-85 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 9 - Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation of Land|Mississippi Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation Law|§ 53-9-85. Enforcement and protection of water rights

  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as affecting in any way the right of any person to enforce or protect, under applicable law, that person's interest in water resources affected by a surface coal mining operation.   The operator of a surface coal mine shall replace the water supply of an owner of interest in real property who obtains all or part of that person's 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 surface coal mining or reclamation operation.
MS Code § 53-9-87 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 9 - Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation of Land|Mississippi Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation Law|§ 53-9-87. Training, examination, and certification of persons responsible for blasting

 The commission shall promulgate regulations requiring the training, examination and certification of persons engaging in or directly responsible for blasting or use of explosives in surface coal mining operations.