HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                     3075

times; altering and clarifying certain fees; providing
exceptions to the application of fee changes; altering
deadlines for the review and decision on certain
applications; requiring that permit and land use reviews be
concurrent; clarifying and altering the application of
remedies and penalties; clarifying exceptions to permit
periods; clarifying and altering fees, requirements, and
review periods relating to certain permit modifications;
altering certain fees, requirements, and review procedures
for permit renewals; altering transfer rights and duties for
certain surface mining interests and certain procedures and
review periods for approval of transfers of certain mining
interests; providing for civil actions for certain
violations of surface mining laws; altering definitions;
defining terms; making stylistic changes; and generally
relating to surface mining laws in the State.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Natural Resources

Section 7-6A-01, 7-6A-02, 7-6A-03, 7-6A-04, 7-6A-06 through

7-6A-27, inclusive, 7-6A-29, 7-6A-30, and 7-6A-31
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1983 Replacement Volume and 1984 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,

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Section 7-6A-05 and 7-6A-28

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1983 Replacement Volume and 1984 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Natural Resources

7-6A-01.

(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]
PERMITTEE, including private ways and roads appurtenant to the
area, land excavations, workings, refuse piles, spoil piles, and
tailings.