Title 38 — Mining and Gas and Oil Production

In this chapter, unless the context or subject matter otherwise requires: 1. "Affected land" means the area of land from which overburden is removed as the result of a surface mining operation or upon which overburden or refuse is deposited as the result of a surface mining opera…

Except as provided for in section 38-16-06, no person may conduct a surface mining operation without complying with the reporting requirements of this chapter. Any person conducting a number of operations, each of which, within one calendar year, results in the removal of less th…

Any person conducting a surface mining operation shall file with the committee a report on each surface mining operation conducted during the calendar year. The report must be filed on or before December thirty-first of each year in which the surface mining operation is conducted…

The committee has the power to: 1. Exercise general supervision and administration and enforcement of this chapter. 2. Encourage and conduct training, research, experiments, and demonstrations, and to collect and disseminate information relating to surface mining operations and r…

The committee shall prepare and transmit to local soil conservation districts, on or before June thirtieth of each year, a report giving information about surface mining operations and reclamation activities conducted in the soil conservation districts during the preceding calend…

The reporting requirements of this chapter do not apply to a surface mining operation which is subject to a requirement by a department or agency of the state that the person conducting the surface mining operation obtain a written release from the landowner approving the conditi…