Ohio Administrative Code › Title 1501:13 - Division of Mineral Resources Management - Coal › Chapter 1501:13-1 - Administrative Procedures › Section 1501:13-1-02 - Definitions

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
As used in Chapters 1501:13-1 to 1501:13-14 of the
				Administrative Code:
(A) "Abatement
			 plan" means any individual technique or combination of techniques, the
			 implementation of which may result in reduction of the base line pollution
			 load. Abatement techniques may include but are not limited to best management
			 practices such as: addition of alkaline material, daylighting old underground
			 mines, special plans for managing toxic- and acid-forming material, regrading,
			 and revegetation.
(B) "Acid
			 drainage" means water with a pH of less than 6.0 and in which total acidity
			 exceeds total alkalinity, discharged from an active, inactive or abandoned coal
			 mine and reclamation operation or from an area affected by coal mining and
			 reclamation operations.
(C)
			 "Acid-forming materials" means earth materials that contain sulfide mineral or
			 other materials which, if exposed to air, water, or weathering processes, will
			 form acids that may create acid drainage.
(D) "Acid water" means any waters, the pH of
			 which, as determined by standard methods, is less than 6.0.
(E) "Adjacent area" means the area outside
			 the affected area or permit area where air, surface or ground water, fish,
			 wildlife, vegetation or other resources protected by Chapter 1513. of the
			 Revised Code, determined according to the context in which "adjacent area" is
			 used, are or reasonably could be expected to be adversely affected by proposed
			 coal mining and reclamation operations including probable impacts from
			 underground workings. With respect to underground mining operations, "adjacent
			 area" shall include, at a minimum, the surface areas above full coal recovery
			 areas.
(F) "Affected area" means
			 any land or water surface area which is used to facilitate, or is physically
			 altered by, coal mining and reclamation operations.
(1) The affected area includes:
(a) The disturbed area;
(b) Any area upon which coal mining and
			 reclamation operations are conducted;
(c) Any adjacent lands the use of which is
			 incidental to coal mining and reclamation operations;
(d) All areas covered by new or existing
			 roads used to gain access to, or for hauling coal to or from coal mining and
			 reclamation operations, but may not include public roadways, provided that:
(i) The public roadway was in existence prior
			 to the application for the permit;
(ii) The effect on the public roadway from
			 mining use will be minor; and
(iii)
			 The public roadway is incidentally, rather than directly, part of the mining
			 operation;
(e) Any area
			 covered by surface excavations, workings, impoundments, dams, ventilation
			 shafts, entryways, refuse banks, dumps, stockpiles, overburden piles, spoil
			 banks, culm banks, tailings, holes or depressions, repair areas, storage areas,
			 shipping areas; and
(f) Any areas
			 upon which are sited structures, facilities, or other property material on the
			 surface resulting from, or incident to, coal mining and reclamation
			 operations.