Bill Information

An Act amending the act of May 31, 1945 (P. L. 1198, No. 418), known as the "Surface Mining Conservation and Reclamation Act," further providing for the purpose of the act; adding and amending certain definitions; further providing for operators' licenses, for mining permits, for surface mining reclamation and reclamation plans, for procedures relating to bonds, trust funds and other financial assurances, for certain remining and for further duties of the Environmental Hearing Board, the Environmental Quality Board and the Department of Environmental Resources; providing for government-financed reclamation contracts authorizing incidental and necessary extraction of coal and for related remining and reclamation matters; establishing the Remining Environmental Enforcement Fund and the Remining Financial Assurance Fund; further providing for the Mining and Reclamation Advisory Board; and making repeals.