Section 20.2. There is hereby created within the department a Bureau of Anthracite Conservation and Reclamation and the secretary shall appoint and fix the compensation of a director of said bureau to be known as the Director of Anthracite Conservation and Reclamation.
The Bureau of Anthracite Conservation and Reclamation shall have the power and its duty shall be to administer all of the laws of this Commonwealth governing and relating to the mining of anthracite coal by the open pit or strip method and, subject to the approval of the secretary, to exercise all the powers and perform all the duties by law vested in and imposed upon said secretary in relation to such open pit or strip mining.
(20.2 added Aug. 13, 1963, P.L.781, No.393)