R645-102-100. Scope and Responsibility  


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  • 110. Scope.

    111. R645-102 establishes the procedures for determining those coal mining and reclamation operations which are exempt from the Act and the R645 Rules because the extraction of coal is an incidental part of federal, state, or local government-financed highway or other construction.

    112. R645-102 exempts the extraction of coal which is incidental to government-financed construction from the requirements of the Act and the R645 Rules, if that extraction meets specified criteria which ensure that the construction is government-financed and that the extraction of coal is incidental to it.

    120. Responsibility.

    121. The Division is responsible for enforcing the requirements of R645-102.

    122. Any person conducting coal extraction as an incidental part of government-financed construction is responsible for possessing, on the site of the extraction activity, the documentation required by R645-102-300.