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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 624

(Senate Bill 1065)

AN ACT concerning

Natural Resources — Surface Mining

FOR the purpose of providing for a waiver of certain
provisions relating to a surface mining permit;
clarifying language; defining a certain term; and
clarifying certain exemptions and redesignating
definitions.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article — Natural Resources

Section 7-6A01 [[and]], 7-6A07(d), and 7-6A31(b)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1974 Volume and 1975 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF

MARYLAND, That Sections 7-6A01 [[and]], 7-6A07(d),___and

76A31(b) of Article - Natural Resources, of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1974 Volume and 1975 Supplement) be and
they are hereby repealed and reenacted, with amendments,
to read as follows:

Article - Natural Resources

7-6A01.

(a)    In this subtitle the following words have the
meanings indicated.

(b)    "Active operation" means one from which a
minimum of 500 tons per acre of pits being mined,
excluding coal, has been extracted for commercial
purposes in the preceding year.

(c)    "Affected land" means the land from which the
mineral is removed by surface mining, and all other land
area in which the natural land surface has been disturbed
as a result of or incidental to the surface mining
activities of the operator, including private ways and
roads appurtenant to the area, land excavations,
workings, refuse piles, spoil piles, AND tailings.

(d)    "Borrow pit" means an area from which soil or
other unconsolidated materials are removed to be used,
without further processing, as fill for activities such
as landscaping, building construction, or highway
construction and maintenance[.] [[UNDER ONE CONTRACT OR
FOR ONLY ONE JOB]].

(e) "Contiguous" means in actual contact, sharing
a common property boundary, or separated only by a stream
or the right—of—way of a road or highway.