Pennsylvania Code › Title 25 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Part I - Department of Environmental Protection › Subpart C - Protection of Natural Resources › Article I - Land Resources › Chapter 86 - SURFACE AND UNDERGROUND COAL MINING: GENERAL › Subchapter J - REMINING AND RECLAMATION INCENTIVES › GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 86.252 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this
							 subchapter, have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
							 otherwise:
Abandoned mine lands
-For the
							 purposes of this subchapter, unreclaimed lands affected by surface or
							 underground coal mining or coal refuse disposal activities, including bond
							 forfeiture sites for which the bonds have been collected by the Department.
Act
-The Surface Mining Conservation
							 and Reclamation Act (52 P. S. §§
														1396.1-1396.19b).
Bond credit
-A specified amount of
							 money reserved by the Department in the Remining Financial Assurance Fund under
							 section 4.13 of the act (52 P. S. §
														1396.4m) to be used by an operator to meet
							 the bonding requirements of section 4 of the act (52 P. S. §
														1396.4).
Financial guarantee
-A specified
							 amount of money reserved by the Department in the Remining Financial Assurance
							 Fund for a qualified operator's permitted remining area as authorized by
							 section 4.12 of the act (52 P. S. §
														1396.4l).
Qualified consultant
-A designated
							 public agency or private consulting firm which the Department has found capable
							 of providing the services of ROAP.
Qualified laboratory
-A designated
							 public agency or private analytical laboratory which the Department has found
							 capable of providing the services of ROAP.
ROAP
-Remining Operator's Assistance
							 Program.
Remining
-Reaffecting and reclaiming
							 abandoned mine lands, under a coal mining activity permit, which exhibit one or
							 more of the following features:
(i)
						  Highwalls, spoil piles, abandoned buildings and structures, unsealed deep mine
						  openings, subsidence features or safety hazards.
(ii) Exposed or unvegetated coal
						  refuse.
(iii) A source of excess
						  settleable solids to stream flow.
(iv) A source of mine drainage pollution to
						  surface or groundwaters.
(v)
						  Pollution abatement areas as that term is defined in §§
													87.202 and 88.502 (relating to
						  definitions).
Remining area
-An area of land on
							 which remining will take place, including that amount of previously undisturbed
							 area up to 300 feet from the edge of the unreclaimed area which must be
							 affected to achieve a final grade compatible with adjacent areas. Additional
							 undisturbed land may be within a remining area if the permittee demonstrates
							 that a larger area is needed to accomplish backfilling and grading of the
							 unreclaimed area or is needed for support activities for the remining
							 activity.
Tangible net worth
-Total assets
							 minus intangibles such as goodwill and rights to patents or
							 royalties.
The provisions of this §
															86.252 amended under section 5 of
								The Clean Streams Law (35 P. S. §
																691.5); sections 4(a) and 4.2 of the Surface
								Mining Conservation and Reclamation Act (52 P. S.
								§§
																1396.4(a) and
								1396.4b); and section 1920-A
								of The Administrative Code of 1929 (71 P. S. §
																510-20).
This section cited in 25 Pa. Code §
															86.162c (relating to Bioenergy
								Crop Bonding); 25 Pa. Code §
															86.261 (relating to program
								services); and 25 Pa. Code §
															290.105 (relating to beneficial
								use at abandoned mine lands).