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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 418

to discover better ways to protect life and health, extend
the serviceable use of instrumentalities, and promote the
prosperity of the industry by reducing waste of natural
resources and fostering economy in mining. It shall compile,
statistically analyze, and compare available data regarding
coal or other mining processes and operations, and advise
any person engaged in that industry.

[(e) The Director shall prescribe the form or other
uniform method for obtaining data or for use in making
reports necessary to discharge properly the Bureau's duties.
He shall direct and supervise the field and office work of
the Bureau, subject to the control of the survey, and
require prompt reporting on any service required by law or
rule or regulation.]

[(f)] (D) The Director may institute proceedings in
the name of the State by an action at law, suit in equity,
or prosecution to enforce any provision of this title or any
rule or regulation. This power does not exclude any right of
an interested person to invoke the usual and ordinary
process of a court against a violator of the mining laws.

[(g)] (E) The [Director or any mine inspector] BUREAU
may enter and inspect any mine in order to determine its
safety condition. If the inspected mine is found unsafe or
is operated in an unsafe manner, the [Director or the mine
inspector] BUREAU shall order the immediate correction of
the unsafe condition. If the unsafe condition is not
corrected in the time prescribed, the [Director] BUREAU
shall order the mine closed until the owner or operator
makes the necessary correction.

[(h)] (F) [Notwithstanding the provisions of Article
89, § 2 of the Code, the] THE Bureau shall collect
information in regard to mineral production and mine output.

[(i)] (G) The annual report required by § 1-104 of
this article shall include the following information for
each major watershed in Allegany and Garrett counties, on a
cumulative and annual basis:

(1)  The total number of acres for which new or
amended permits have been issued;

(2)  The total number of acres which have been
stripped;

(3)  The total number of acres which have been
planted; and

(4)  The total number of acres for which the
Bureau has released the revegetation bond.

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