HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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(2)   Identify the location of the operation as to
county, district, nearest municipality, and nearest public
road;

(3)  Report the type of mineral produced, the
volume produced, and the value of production of each for the
previous year. Individual company data is confidential and
may be released only with the operator's written consent;

(4)   State the acreage disturbed by surface
mining during the previous year;

(5)   State and describe the amount and type of
reclamation carried out during the previous year;

(6)  Estimate the acreage to be newly disturbed
by mining in the next year; and

(7)  Provide any additional information or maps
which the Department reasonably requires.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1982.

Approved May 20, 1982.

CHAPTER 357

(House Bill 439)

AN ACT concerning

Strip Mining - Permitting and Enforcement

FOR the purpose of clarifying the requirements for holding a
currently valid mining operator's license and a permit
to conduct open-pit mining; modifying the procedure by
which the Land Reclamation Committee acts on a mining
and reclamation progress report; revising the procedure
by which a completion report is approved; removing the
minimum amount in which certain bonds must be retained;
providing for an exemption to the requirement that a
person prospecting for coal must obtain a bond; and
generally relating to strip mining in Maryland.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Natural Resources

Section 7-205(b), 7-504(a), 7-505(a), 7-507(b),

7-509(a), 7-511, and 7-514.6(a)
Annotated Code of Maryland