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To encourage advances in coal mining and
reclamation practices or to allow postmining land use for industrial,
commercial, residential, recreational, or public use, the director may,
with the approval of the United States Secretary of the Interior, permit
departures in individual cases from the standards established in IC 14-34-10 and IC 14-34-11. The director may permit these departures
only if the following conditions exist:
(1)The experimental practices are:
(B)at least as;
environmentally protective during and after the coal mining
operations as those required under commission rules governing
this section.
(2)The coal mining operations approved for particular land use
or other purposes are not larger or more numerous than necessary
to determine the effective
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To encourage advances in coal mining and
reclamation practices or to allow postmining land use for industrial,
commercial, residential, recreational, or public use, the director may,
with the approval of the United States Secretary of the Interior, permit
departures in individual cases from the standards established in IC 14-34-10 and IC 14-34-11. The director may permit these departures
only if the following conditions exist:
(1) The experimental practices are:
(A) potentially more; or
(B) at least as;
environmentally protective during and after the coal mining
operations as those required under commission rules governing
this section.
(2) The coal mining operations approved for particular land use
or other purposes are not larger or more numerous than necessary
to determine the effectiveness and economic feasibility of the
experimental practices.
(3) The experimental practices do not reduce the protection
afforded public health and safety below that provided by
commission rules governing this section.
[Pre-1995 Recodification Citation: 13-4.1-3-5.]