La. Admin. Code tit. 43 § XV-1303

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 11, November 20, 2024

Section XV-1303 - Criteria for Designating Lands as Unsuitable

A. Upon petition an area shall be designated as unsuitable for all or certain types of surface coal mining operations, if the office determines that reclamation is not technologically and economically feasible under the Act or these regulations.

B. Upon petition an area may be, but is not required to be, designated as unsuitable for certain types of surface coal mining operations, if the operations will:

1. be incompatible with existing state or local land use plans or programs;

2. affect fragile or historic lands in which the operations could result in significant damage to important historic, cultural, scientific or aesthetic values or natural systems;

3. affect renewable resource lands in which the operations could result in a substantial loss or reduction of long-range productivity of water supply or of food or fiber products;

4. affect natural hazard lands in which the operations could substantially endanger life and property, such lands to include areas subject to frequent flooding and areas of unstable geology.

La. Admin. Code tit. 43, § XV-1303

Promulgated by the Department of Natural Resources, Office of Conservation, LR 5:395 (December 1979), amended LR 14:441 (July 1988), LR 20:447 (April 1994).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 30:901-932.