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45 OK Stat § 45-745.14 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 45. Mines and Mining|§45-745.14. Findings - Notice to applicant - Hearing on findings.

|A. If an informal conference has been held, the Department shall issue and furnish the applicant and persons who are parties to the administrative proceedings with the written finding of the Department, granting or denying the permit in whole or in part and stating the reasons therefor, within the sixty (60) days of the hearings in the informal conference. |B. If no informal conference has been held, the Department shall notify the applicant for a permit within a reasonable time, whether the application has been approved or disapproved in whole or in part.C. If the application is approved, the permit shall be issued. If the application is disapproved, specific reasons shall be set forth in the notification. Within thirty (30) days after the applicant is notified of the final decision of the Department on the permit application, the applicant or any person with an interest which is or may be adversely affected may request a hearing on the reasons for the final determination. The Department shall hold a hearing within thirty (30) days of such request and provide notification to all interested parties at the time that the applicant is so notified. Such hearing shall be of record, adjudicatory in nature and no person who presided at an informal conference shall either preside at the hearing or participate in this decision or in any administrative appeal. Within thirty (30) days after the hearing the Department shall issue and furnish the applicant, and all persons who participated in the hearing, with the written decision of the Department granting or denying the permit in whole or in part and stating the reasons.Laws 1979, c. 249, § 17, emerg. eff. June 1, 1979.
45 OK Stat § 45-745.15 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 45. Mines and Mining|§45-745.15. Temporary relief pending final determination of proceedings - Conduct of hearings - Appeals.

|When a hearing is requested pursuant to this act, the Department may, under such conditions as it may prescribe, grant such temporary relief as it deems appropriate pending final determination of the proceedings if: |1. All parties to the proceedings have been notified and given an opportunity to be heard on a request for temporary relief;2. The person requesting such relief shows that there is a substantial likelihood that he will prevail on the merits of the final determination of the proceeding; and3. Such relief will not adversely affect the public health or safety or cause significant imminent environmental harm to land, air or water resources.For the purpose of this and every hearing authorized by this act, the Department may, pursuant to the Administrative Procedures Act, administer oaths, subpoena witnesses, or written or printed materials, compel attendance of the witnesses, or production of the materials, and take evidence including, but not limited to, site inspections of the land to be affected and other surface coal mining operations carried on by the applicant in the general vicinity of the proposed operation. A verbatim record of each public hearing required by this act shall be made, and a transcript made available on the motion of any party or by order of the Department.Any applicant or any person with an interest which is or may be adversely affected who has participated in the application process as an objector, and who is aggrieved by the decision of the Department, or if the Department fails to act within the time limits specified in this act, shall have the right to appeal as provided by Section 53 of this act.Laws 1979, c. 249, § 18, emerg. eff. June 1, 1979.
45 OK Stat § 45-745.16.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 45. Mines and Mining|§45-745.16.1. Small operator assistance program.

|The Department shall operate a small operator assistance program to the extent required by federal law, and shall provide such services as are necessary to comply with the permanent regulatory program. The Department is authorized to enter into a cooperative agreement with the Secretary of the Interior regarding distribution of funds for the small operator assistance program. |Added by Laws 1983, c. 39, § 5, emerg. eff. April 20, 1983.
45 OK Stat § 45-745.17 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 45. Mines and Mining|§45-745.17. Copy of application to be filed with county recorder or appropriate public office - Liability insurance - Blasting plans.

|A. Each applicant for a surface coal mining and reclamation permit shall file a copy of his application for public inspection with the recorder at the courthouse of the county or an appropriate public office approved by the Department where the mining is proposed to occur, except for that information pertaining to the coal seam itself. |B. Each applicant for a permit shall be required to submit to the Department as part of the permit application a certificate issued by an insurance company authorized to do business in the United States certifying that the applicant has a public liability insurance policy in force for the surface mining and reclamation operations for which such permit is sought, or evidence that the applicant has satisfied other state or federal self-insurance requirements. Such policy shall provide for personal injury and property damage protection in an amount adequate to compensate any persons damaged as a result of surface coal mining and reclamation operations including use of explosives and entitled to compensation under the applicable provisions of state law. Such policy shall be maintained in full force and effect during the terms of the permit or any renewal, including the length of all reclamation operations.C. Each applicant for a surface coal mining and reclamation permit shall submit to the Department as part of the permit application a blasting plan which shall outline the procedures and standards by which the operator will meet the provisions of law.Laws 1979, c. 249, § 20, emerg. eff. June 1, 1979.
45 OK Stat § 45-745.18 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 45. Mines and Mining|§45-745.18. Impoundments of water on mining sites.

|The operator may create, if authorized in the approved mining and reclamation plan and permit, permanent impoundments of water on mining sites as part of reclamation activities only when it is adequately demonstrated that: |1. The size of the impoundment is adequate for its intended purposes;2. The impoundment dam construction will be so designed as to achieve necessary stability with an adequate margin of safety compatible with that of structures constructed under Public Law 83-566 (16 U.S.C. 1006);3. The quality of impounded water will be suitable on a permanent basis for its intended use and that discharges from the impoundment will not degrade the water quality below water quality standards established pursuant to applicable federal and state law in the receiving stream;4. The level of water will be reasonably stable;5. Final grading will provide adequate safety and access for proposed water users; and6. Such water impoundments will not result in the diminution of the quality or quantity of water utilized by adjacent or surrounding landowners for agricultural, industrial, recreational or domestic uses.Laws 1979, c. 249, § 21, emerg. eff. June 1, 1979.
45 OK Stat § 45-745.19 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 45. Mines and Mining|§45-745.19. Augering operations.

|The operator shall conduct any augering operation associated with surface mining in a manner to maximize recoverability of coal and other mineral reserves remaining after the operation and reclamation are complete, and seal all auger holes with an impervious and noncombustible material in order to prevent drainage except where the Department determines that the resulting impoundment of water in such auger holes may create a hazard to the environment or the public health or safety. The Department may prohibit augering if necessary to maximize the utilization recoverability or conservation of the solid fuel resources or to protect against adverse water quality impacts. |Laws 1979, c. 249, § 22, emerg. eff. June 1, 1979.
45 OK Stat § 45-745.20 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 45. Mines and Mining|§45-745.20. Disposal of wastes.

|The operator shall, with respect to surface disposal of mine wastes, tailings, coal processing wastes, and other wastes in areas other than the mine working or excavations, stabilize all waste piles in designated areas through construction in compacted layers including the use of incombustible and impervious materials if necessary. He shall also assure that the final contour of the waste pile will be compatible with natural surroundings and that the site can and will be stabilized and revegetated according to the provisions of this act. |Laws 1979, c. 249, § 23, emerg. eff. June 1, 1979.
45 OK Stat § 45-745.21 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 45. Mines and Mining|§45-745.21. Surface mining near active and abandoned underground mines.

|The operator shall refrain from surface coal mining within five hundred (500) feet from active and abandoned underground mines in order to prevent breakthroughs and to protect health or safety of miners. The Department shall permit an operator to mine near, through or partially through an abandoned underground mine or closer to an active underground mine if the nature, timing and sequencing of the approximate coincidence of specific surface mine activities with specific underground mine activities will result in improved resource recovery, improved land use category abatement of water pollution, or elimination of hazards to the health and safety of underground miners and the public. |Laws 1979, c. 249, § 24, emerg. eff. June 1, 1979.
45 OK Stat § 45-745.22 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 45. Mines and Mining|§45-745.22. Reclamation efforts - Variances.

|The operator shall insure that all reclamation efforts proceed in an environmentally sound manner and as contemporaneously as practicable with the surface coal mining operations. Where the applicant proposes to combine surface mining operations with underground mining operations to assure maximum practical recovery of the coal and other mineral resources, the Department may grant a variance for specific areas within the reclamation plan from the requirement that reclamation efforts proceed as contemporaneously as practicable to permit underground mining operations prior to reclamation: |1. If the Department finds in writing that:a. the applicant has presented, as part of the permit application, specific, feasible plans for the proposed underground mining operations,b. the proposed underground mining operations are necessary or desirable to assure maximum practical recovery of the coal and other mineral resources and will avoid multiple disturbance of the surface,c. the applicant has satisfactorily demonstrated that the plan for the underground mining operations conforms to requirements for underground mining in the jurisdiction and that permits necessary for the underground mining operations have been issued,d. the areas proposed for the variance have been shown by the applicant to be necessary for the implementing of the proposed underground mining operations,e. no substantial adverse environmental damage, either on-site or off-site, will result from the delay in completion of reclamation as required by this act, andf. provisions for the off-site storage of spoil will comply with the requirements of this act;2. If the United States Secretary of the Interior has promulgated specific regulations to govern the granting of such variances in accordance with the provisions of federal law, and has imposed such additional requirements as he deems necessary;3. If variances granted under the provisions of this section are to be reviewed by the Department not more than three (3) years from the date of issuance of the permit; and4. If liability under the bond filed by the applicant with the Department shall be for the duration of the underground mining operations and until the requirements of this act have been fully complied with.Laws 1979, c. 249, § 25, emerg. eff. June 1, 1979.
45 OK Stat § 45-746 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 45. Mines and Mining|§45-746. Restoration of land.

|The operator shall restore the land affected to a condition capable of supporting the uses which it was capable of supporting prior to any mining, or higher or better uses of which there is reasonable likelihood, so long as such use or uses do not present any actual or probable hazard to public health or safety or of water diminution or pollution. The permit applicant's declared proposed land use following reclamation shall not be impractical or unreasonable, inconsistent with applicable land use policies and plans, involve unreasonable delay in implementation, or violate federal, state or local law. |Laws 1978, c. 10, § 6, emerg. eff. Feb. 2, 1978.
45 OK Stat § 45-747 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 45. Mines and Mining|§45-747. Backfilling, compacting, and grading.

|The operator shall backfill, compact where advisable to insure stability or to prevent leaching of toxic materials, and grade in order to restore the approximate original contour of the land with all highwalls, spoil piles and depressions eliminated unless small depressions are needed in order to retain moisture to assist revegetation or as otherwise authorized pursuant to this act. |Laws 1978, c. 10, § 7, emerg. eff. Feb. 2, 1978.
45 OK Stat § 45-748 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 45. Mines and Mining|§45-748. Conditions where backfilling, compacting, and grading are necessary.

|In surface coal mining: |1. Which is carried out at the same location over a substantial period of time when the operation transects the coal deposit;2. The thickness of the coal deposits relative to the volume of the overburden is large; and3. Where the operator demonstrates that the overburden and other spoil and waste materials at a particular point in the permit area or otherwise available from the entire permit area is insufficient, giving due consideration to volumetric expansion, to restore the approximate original contour;the operator, at a minimum, shall backfill, grade and compact, where advisable, using all available overburden and other spoil and waste materials to attain the lowest practicable grade but not more than the angle of repose. The operator shall provide adequate drainage and cover all acid-forming and other toxic materials, in order to achieve an ecologically sound land use compatible with the surrounding region.Laws 1978, c. 10, § 8, emerg. eff. Feb. 2, 1978.
45 OK Stat § 45-749 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 45. Mines and Mining|§45-749. Restoring excess overburden, spoils and waste materials.

|In surface coal mining where the volume of overburden is large relative to the thickness of the coal deposit and where the operator demonstrates that due to volumetric expansion the amount of overburden and other spoil and waste materials removed in the course of the mining operation is more than sufficient to restore the approximate original contour, the operator shall after restoring the approximate contour, backfill, grade and compact, where advisable, the excess overburden and other spoil and waste materials to attain the lowest grade but not more than the angle of repose, and cover all acid-forming and other toxic materials, in order to achieve an ecologically sound land use compatible with the surrounding region. Such overburden or spoil shall be shaped and graded in such a way as to prevent slides, erosion and water pollution and shall be revegetated in accordance with the requirements of this act. |Laws 1978, c. 10, § 9, emerg. eff. Feb. 2, 1978.
45 OK Stat § 45-750 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 45. Mines and Mining|§45-750. Removal and restoration of topsoil.

|The operator shall remove the topsoil from the land in a separate layer, replace it on the backfill area or if not utilized immediately, segregate it in a separate pile from other spoil. When the topsoil is not replaced on a backfill area within a time short enough to avoid deterioration of the topsoil, the operator shall maintain a successful cover by quick-growing plants or other means so that the topsoil is preserved from wind and water erosion, remains free of any contamination by other acid or toxic material, and is in a usable condition for sustaining vegetation when restored during reclamation. If the topsoil is of insufficient quantity or of poor quality for sustaining vegetation, or if other strata can be shown to be more suitable for vegetation requirements, then the operator shall remove, segregate and preserve in a like manner such other strata which is best able to support vegetation. |Laws 1978, c. 10, § 10, emerg. eff. Feb. 2, 1978.
45 OK Stat § 45-751 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 45. Mines and Mining|§45-751. Disturbances to hydrologic balance.

|The operator shall minimize the disturbances to the prevailing hydrologic balance, at the mine site and in associated offsite areas, and to the quality and quantity of water in surface and ground water systems both during and after surface coal mining operations and during reclamation by: |1. Avoiding acid or other toxic mine drainage by such measures as, but not limited to:a. preventing or removing water from contact with toxic producing deposits,b. treating drainage to reduce toxic content which adversely affects downstream water upon being released to water courses, andc. casing, sealing, or otherwise managing boreholes, shafts, and wells and keeping acid or other toxic drainage from entering ground and surface waters;2. a. Conducting surface coal mining operations so as toprevent, to the extent possible using the best technology currently available, additional contributions of suspended solids to streamflow, or runoff outside the permit area, but in no event shall contributions be in excess of requirements set by applicable state or federal law, andb. constructing any siltation structures pursuant to this paragraph prior to commencement of surface coal mining operations. Such structures shall be certified by a qualified registered engineer to be constructed as designed and as approved in the reclamation plan;3. Cleaning out and removing temporary or large settling ponds or other siltation structures from drainways after disturbed areas are revegetated and stabilized, and depositing the silt and debris at a site and in a manner approved by the Department;4. Restoring recharge capacity of the mined area to approximate premining conditions;5. Avoiding channel deepening or enlargement in operations requiring the discharge of water from mines;6. Preserving throughout the mining and reclamation process the essential hydrologic functions of alluvial valley floors in the arid and semiarid areas of the country; and7. Such other actions as the Department may prescribe.Laws 1978, c. 10, § 11, emerg. eff. Feb. 2, 1978.
45 OK Stat § 45-752 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 45. Mines and Mining|§45-752. Waste piles.

|The operator shall design, locate, construct, operate, maintain, enlarge, modify and remove or abandon, in accordance with the standards and criteria developed by the Department, all existing and new coal mine waste piles consisting of mine wastes, tailings, coal processing wastes, or other liquid and solid wastes, and used either temporarily or permanently as dams or embankments. |Laws 1978, c. 10, § 12, emerg. eff. Feb. 2, 1978.
45 OK Stat § 45-754 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 45. Mines and Mining|§45-754. Reestablishment of native flora - Length of liability.

|A. The operator shall establish on the regraded areas and all other lands affected, a diverse, effective and permanent vegetative cover of the same seasonal variety native to the area of land to be affected and capable of self-regeneration and plant succession at least equal in extent of cover to the natural vegetation of the area; except, that introduced species may be used in the revegetation process where desirable and necessary to achieve the approved postmining land use plan. |B. The operator shall assume the responsibility for successful revegetation for a period of five (5) full years after the last year of augmented seeding, fertilizing, irrigation or other work in order to assure compliance with this section. In those areas or regions of Oklahoma, where the annual average precipitation is twenty-six (26) inches or less as determined by the most recent National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Annual Summary of Climatological Data for Oklahoma, then the operator's assumption of responsibility and liability will extend for a period of ten (10) full years after the last year of augmented seeding, fertilizing, irrigation or other work. When the Department approves a long-term intensive agricultural postmining land use, the applicable five- or ten-year period of responsibility for revegetation shall commence at the date of initial planting for such long-term intensive agricultural postmining land use. When the Department issues a written finding approving a long-term, intensive, agricultural postmining land use as part of the mining and reclamation plan, the Department may grant exception to the provisions of subsection A of this section.Laws 1978, c. 10, § 14, emerg. eff. Feb. 2, 1978; Laws 1979, c. 249, § 26, emerg. eff. June 1, 1979.
45 OK Stat § 45-754.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 45. Mines and Mining|§45-754.1. Spoil material - Placement.

|The operator shall place all excess spoil material resulting from coal surface mining and reclamation activities in such a manner that: |1. Spoil is transported and placed in a controlled manner in position for concurrent compaction and in such a way to assure mass stability and to prevent mass movement;2. The areas of disposal are within the bonded permit areas and all organic matter shall be removed immediately prior to spoil placement;3. Appropriate surface and internal drainage systems and diversion ditches are used so as to prevent spoil erosion and movement;4. The disposal area does not contain springs, natural water courses or wet weather seeps unless lateral drains are constructed from the wet areas to the main underdrains in such a manner that filtration of the water into the spoil pile will be prevented;5. If placed on a slope, the spoil is placed upon the most moderate slope among those upon which, in the judgment of the Department, the spoil could be placed in compliance with all the requirements of this act, and shall be placed, where possible, upon, or above, a natural terrace, bench, or berm, if such placement provides additional stability and prevents mass movement;6. Where the toe of the spoil rests on a downslope, a rock toe buttress, of sufficient size to prevent mass movement, is constructed;7. The final configuration is compatible with the natural drainage pattern and surroundings and suitable for intended uses;8. Design of the spoil disposal area is certified by a qualified registered professional engineer in conformance with professional standards; and9. All other provisions of this act are met.Laws 1979, c. 249, § 27, emerg. eff. June 1, 1979.