California Laws: Public Resources Code Sections 2725-2735
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 2725
Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions set forth in this article shall govern the construction of this chapter. ...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 2726
"Area of regional significance" means an area designated by the board pursuant to Section 2790 which is known to contain a deposit of minerals, the...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 2727
"Area of statewide significance" means an area designated by the board pursuant to Section 2790 which is known to contain a deposit of minerals, the...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 2727.1
"Idle" means to curtail for a period of one year or more surface mining operations by more than 90 percent of the operation's previous maximum...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 2728
"Lead agency" means the city, county, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, or the board which has the principal responsibility for approving a reclamation...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 2729
"Mined lands" includes the surface, subsurface, and ground water of an area in which surface mining operations will be, are being, or have been conducted,...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 2730
"Mining waste" includes the residual of soil, rock, mineral, liquid, vegetation, equipment, machines, tools, or other materials or property directly resulting from, or displaced by,...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 2731
"Operator" means any person who is engaged in surface mining operations, himself, or who contracts with others to conduct operations on his behalf, except a...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 2732
"Overburden" means soil, rock, or other materials that lie above a natural mineral deposit or in between mineral deposits, before or after their removal by...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 2732.5
"Permit" means any authorization from, or approval by, a lead agency, the absence of which would preclude surface mining operations. ...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 2733
"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...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 2734
"State policy" means the regulations adopted by the board pursuant to Section 2755. ...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 2735
"Surface mining operations" means all, or any part of, the process involved in the mining of minerals on mined lands by removing overburden and mining...
