Alabama Code (Last Updated: November 28, 2014) |
Title9 CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES. |
Chapter16. MINERAL RESOURCES. |
Article4. Abandoned Mine Reclamation. |
§9-16-124. Lands and waters eligible for reclamation.
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For purposes of this article, lands and water eligible for reclamation or drainage abatement expenditures are those which were mined for coal or which were affected by the mining, wastebanks, coal processing, or other coal mining processes, and abandoned or left in an inadequate reclamation status prior to November 5, 1990, and for which there is no continuing reclamation responsibility under existing state or federal law.