Surface Mining Act
New Mexico · Mines · §§ 69-25A-1 to 69-25A-9 · 36 sections
Overview
The act regulates surface coal mining and the surface effects of underground coal mining, requiring operators to obtain a permit before mining and to reclaim the land they disturb. It establishes permit application, reclamation plan, performance bond, and liability insurance requirements, sets environmental protection performance standards for mining operations, and provides for public notice, public hearings, inspection and monitoring, penalties, and citizen suits. Administration rests with a designated agency authorized to adopt regulations and decide permit applications, with its decisions subject to administrative and judicial review, and the act also allows certain lands to be designated unsuitable for surface coal mining.
Editorial summary generated from the text of this act. It is not part of the statute — read the sections below for the operative language.
In the courts
Sections of this act have been cited in 3 court decisions.
Most-cited authority: 182 W. Va. 506 - Russell v. Island Creek Coal Co.
Sections covered
- § 69-25A-1 NMSA 1978Short title
- § 69-25A-10 NMSA 1978Permit application requirements
- § 69-25A-11 NMSA 1978Public liability and self-insurance requirements
- § 69-25A-12 NMSA 1978Reclamation plan requirements
- § 69-25A-13 NMSA 1978Performance bonds
- § 69-25A-14 NMSA 1978Permit approval or denial
- § 69-25A-15 NMSA 1978Revision of permits
- § 69-25A-16 NMSA 1978Coal exploration
- § 69-25A-17 NMSA 1978Public notice and public hearings
- § 69-25A-18 NMSA 1978Decisions of director and appeals
- § 69-25A-19 NMSA 1978Environmental protection performance standards; surface coal mining operations
- § 69-25A-2 NMSA 1978Purpose of act
- § 69-25A-20 NMSA 1978Environmental protection performance standards; surface effects of underground coal mining operations
- § 69-25A-21 NMSA 1978Inspection and monitoring
- § 69-25A-22 NMSA 1978Penalties and sanctions
- § 69-25A-23 NMSA 1978Release of performance bonds1 cite
- § 69-25A-24 NMSA 1978Citizen suits1 cite
- § 69-25A-25 NMSA 1978Enforcement
- § 69-25A-26 NMSA 1978Areas unsuitable for surface coal mining; petitions; exclusions1 cite
- § 69-25A-27 NMSA 1978Cooperative agreement between the state of New Mexico and the United States
- § 69-25A-28 NMSA 1978Applicability to public agencies, public utilities and public corporations
- § 69-25A-29 NMSA 1978Administrative review
- § 69-25A-3 NMSA 1978Definitions
- § 69-25A-30 NMSA 1978Judicial review
- § 69-25A-31 NMSA 1978Exclusions
- § 69-25A-32 NMSA 1978Conflict of interest; penalty; disclosure
- § 69-25A-33 NMSA 1978Experimental practices or other use
- § 69-25A-34 NMSA 1978Repealed
- § 69-25A-35 NMSA 1978Administrative procedures; applicability
- § 69-25A-36 NMSA 1978Termination of agency life; delayed repeal
- § 69-25A-4 NMSA 1978Coal surface mining commission; duties. (Repealed effective July 1, 2036.)
- § 69-25A-5 NMSA 1978Regulations
- § 69-25A-6 NMSA 1978Procedure for adopting regulations
- § 69-25A-7 NMSA 1978Petition to initiate regulations
- § 69-25A-8 NMSA 1978Director; duties
- § 69-25A-9 NMSA 1978General provisions pertaining to permits
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