- (a) This part requires that all individuals, prior to performing or conducting any blasting operation, meet minimum age, education, experience, and training standards.
(b)
- (1) This part does not establish or address minimum standards for the performance of blasting operations.
- (2) They address only the minimum qualifications of those individuals performing blasting.
(c) This part does not apply to blasting conducted:
- (1) By an agricultural operation on property owned or controlled by the agricultural operation;
- (2) At a surface coal mine regulated by the Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission pursuant to the Arkansas Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation Act of 1979, Arkansas Code § 15-58-101 et seq.; and
- (3) During seismic operations regulated by the Oil and Gas Commission pursuant to Arkansas Code § 15-71-114.