“Reclamation” means the combined process of land treatment that minimizes water degradation, air pollution, damage to aquatic or wildlife habitat, flooding, erosion, and other adverse effects from surface mining operations, including adverse surface effects incidental to underground mines, so that mined lands are reclaimed to a usable condition that is readily adaptable for alternate land uses and create no danger to public health or safety. The process may extend to affected lands surrounding mined lands, and may require backfilling, grading, resoiling, revegetation, soil compaction, slope stabilization, or other measures.
Cal. Pub. Res. Code § 2733
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Known as the Surface Mining and Reclamation Act
The act spans §§ 2710–2796 (76 sections).
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case 207 Cal. Rptr. 3d 334 - Bay Area Clean Env't, Inc. v. Santa Clara Cnty. (2016)
Most recently applied in 207 Cal. Rptr. 3d 334 - Bay Area Clean Env't, Inc. v. Santa Clara Cnty. (August 2016)
Amended by Stats. 2016, Ch. 7, Sec. 3
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.