Section 601.302 - Reporting requirements for coal mining operations(a) Any person owning or operating a coal mine shall file with the department a map prepared and sealed by a competent individual licensed as a professional engineer or professional land surveyor pursuant to the provisions of the act of May 23, 1945 (P.L. 913, No. 367), known as the Professional Engineers Registration Law, showing the outside coal boundaries of the said operating coal mine, the existing workings and exhausted areas and the relationship of said boundaries to identifiable surface properties and landmarks. Any operating coal mine which has been penetrated by a well shall furnish a mine map to the department each year indicating the excavations for the preceding year and the projections for the ensuing year. Any person who is storing or contemplating the storage of gas in the vicinity of such operating coal mines shall, upon written request, be furnished a copy of the aforesaid map by the coal operator, and such person and the department shall, thereafter, be informed of any boundary changes at the time such changes occur. The department shall keep a record of such information and shall promptly notify the coal operator and the storage operator when notified by them that the coal mine and the storage reservoir are within 10,000 linear feet of each other.(b) Any person owning or operating any coal mine which is or which hereafter comes within 10,000 linear feet of a storage reservoir and where the coal seam being operated extends over the storage reservoir or the reservoir protective area shall, within 45 days after he has notice from the storage operator of such fact, file with the department and furnish to the person operating such storage reservoir a map in the form hereinabove provided and showing, in addition, the existing and projected excavations and workings of such operating coal mine for the ensuing 18-month period and, also, the location of any oil or gas wells of which said coal operator has knowledge. Such person owning or operating said coal mine shall, each six months thereafter, file with the department and furnish to the person operating such storage reservoir a revised map showing any additional excavations and workings, together with the projected excavations and workings for the then ensuing 18-month period, which may be within 10,000 linear feet of said storage reservoir. The department may require a coal operator to file such revised map at more frequent intervals if material changes have occurred justifying such earlier filing. Such person owning or operating said coal mine shall also file with the department and furnish the person operating said reservoir prompt notice of any wells which have been cut into, together with all available pertinent information.(c) Any person owning or operating a coal mine who has knowledge that it overlies or is within 2,000 linear feet of a gas storage reservoir shall, within 30 days, notify the department and the storage operator of such fact.(d) When any person owning or operating a coal mine hereafter expects that, within the ensuing nine-month period, such coal mine will be extended to a point which will be within 2,000 linear feet of any storage reservoir, he shall notify the department and the storage operator in writing of such fact.(e) Any person hereafter intending to establish or reestablish an operating coal mine which, when established or reestablished, will be over a storage reservoir or within 2,000 linear feet of a storage reservoir or which, upon being established or reestablished, may, within nine months thereafter, be expected to be within 2,000 linear feet of a storage reservoir, shall notify the department and the storage operator, in writing, before doing so, and such notice shall include the date on which it is intended the operating coal mine will be established or reestablished. Any person who serves such notice of an intention to establish or reestablish an operating coal mine under this subsection, without intending in good faith to establish or reestablish such mine, shall be liable for continuing damages to any storage operator injured by the serving of such improper notice and shall be guilty of a misdemeanor under this chapter and subject to the same penalties as set forth in section 505 . 1984, Dec. 19, P.L. 1140, No. 223, § 302, effective in 120 days.