Florida Administrative Code › 62 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 62C - Division of Resource Management › Chapter 62C-39 - RECLAMATION REQUIREMENTS FOR SOLID RESOURCES OTHER THAN PHOSPHATE, LIMESTONE, HEAVY MINERALS, AND FULLER'S EARTH › Section 62C-39.002 - Definitions

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
For the purpose of this chapter, the following words and
				  terms shall have the definitions and meanings ascribed to them in this
				  section:
(1) "Agency" means an
				official, committee, department, commission, officer, division, authority,
				bureau, council, board, section, or unit of government within the state,
				including a county, municipal, or other local or regional entity or special
				district.
(2) "Bureau" means the
				Bureau of Mine Reclamation, 2051 East Dirac Drive, Tallahassee, Florida
				32310.
(3) "Certified" means
				approved by the Department to administer the requirements of this chapter. This
				term shall only apply to a local government.
(4) "Department" means the Department of
				Environmental Protection, 3900 Commonwealth Boulevard, Tallahassee, Florida
				32399.
(5) "Executive director"
				means the chief administrative officer of the Department or his
				designee.
(6) "Existing mine" means
				any mine upon which an operation is being conducted, or has been conducted, on
				October 1, 1986.
(7) "Extraction"
				means the removal of resources from their location, so as to make them suitable
				for commercial, industrial, or construction use; but does not include
				excavation solely in aid of on-site farming or on-site construction, nor the
				process of searching, prospecting, exploring, or investigating for
				resources.
(8) "Local government"
				means any county or municipality.
(9) "Mine" means an area of land upon which
				mining operations have been conducted, are being conducted, or are planned to
				be conducted, as the term is commonly used in the trade.
(10) "New mine" means any mine that is not an
				existing mine.
(11) "Onsite" means
				within the contiguous limits of an area of land under one ownership or control
				and upon which farming or construction activities are taking place. Areas of
				land that are divided by public or private roads are considered contiguous if
				such areas are under one ownership or control.
(12) "Operation" means any activity, other
				than prospecting, necessary for site preparation, extraction, waste disposal,
				storage, or reclamation.
(13)
				"Operator" means any person engaged in an operation.
(14) "Overburden" means soil and rock removed
				to gain access to the resource in the process of extraction and means such soil
				or rock before or after its removal. This does not include tailings or
				screenings generated by processing the resource.
(15) "Phosphate" means phosphate resources
				that are subject to Chapter 211, Part II, F.S.
(16) "Reclamation" means the reasonable
				rehabilitation of land where resource extraction has occurred.
(17) "Resource" means soil, clay, peat,
				stone, gravel, sand, metallic ore, or any other solid substance, except
				phosphate, limestone, heavy minerals, and fuller's earth, of commercial value
				found in natural deposits on or in the earth.
(18) "Sand" means any loose, granular
				material that could be sold commercially as sand.
(19) "Slope" means the ratio of a horizontal
				distance to one corresponding unit of vertical distance.
(20) "Spoil" means soil and rock removed to
				gain access to the resource or left as waste in the process of extraction. This
				does not include tailings or screenings generated by processing the
				resource.
Rulemaking Authority
					 370.021,
					 378.404 FS. Law Implemented
					 378.403,
					 378.404
					 FS.
New 1-19-89, Formerly 16C-39.002, Amended
					 1-3-02.