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Indiana Administrative Code
Title 312
25
Rule 1
Definitions
Natural Resources Commission
1
Applicability
2
"A horizon" defined
3
"Acid-drainage" defined
4
"Acid-forming materials" defined
5
"Act" defined
6
"Adjacent area" defined
7
"Administratively complete application" defined
8
"Affected area" defined
9
"Agricultural use" defined
10
"Applicant" defined
10.5
"Applicant/violator system" defined
11
"Application" defined
12
"Approximate original contour" defined
13
"Aquifer" defined
14
"Auger mining" defined
15
"Augmented seeding, fertilization, or irrigation" defined
16
"B horizon" defined
17
"Best technology currently available" defined
18
"Box cut spoil" defined
19
"C horizon" defined
20
"Cemetery" defined
21
"Certified blaster" defined
22
"Coal" defined
23
"Coal exploration" defined
24
"Coal mine waste" defined
25
"Coal preparation" defined
26
"Coal preparation plant" defined
27
"Coal processing waste" defined
28
"Combustible material" defined
29
"Commission" defined
30
"Community or institutional building" defined
31
"Compaction" defined
32
"Complete application" defined
32.5
"Control or controller" defined
33
"Cropland" defined
34
"Cumulative impact area" defined
35
"Cumulative measurement period" defined
36
"Cumulative production" defined
37
"Cumulative revenue" defined
38
"Department" defined
39
"Developed water resources" defined
40
"Director" defined
41
"Disturbed area" defined
42
"Diverse vegetation" defined
43
"Diversion" defined
44
"Downslope" defined
45
"Drinking, domestic, or residential water supply" defined
45.5
"Drinking water well" defined
46
"Embankment" defined
47
"Ephemeral stream" defined
48
"Excess spoil" defined
49
"Existing structure" defined
50
"Extraction of coal as an incidental part" defined
51
"Federal land" defined
51.5
"Federal Office of Surface Mining Applicant/Violator System Office" defined
52
"Fish and wildlife habitat" defined
53
"Forestry" defined
54
"Fragile lands" defined
55
"Fugitive dust" defined
56
"General area" defined
57
"Government-financed construction" defined
58
"Government financing agency" defined
59
"Ground cover" defined
60
"Ground water" defined
60.5
"Ground water management zone" defined
61
"Half-shrub" defined
62
"Head-of-hollow fill" defined
63
"High level management" defined
64
"Highwall" defined
65
"Historic lands" defined
66
"Historically used for cropland" defined
67
"Hydrologic balance" defined
68
"Hydrologic regime" defined
69
"Imminent danger to the health and safety of the public" defined
70
"Impounding structure" defined
71
"Impoundment" defined
72
"In situ process" defined
73
"Industrial/commercial" defined
74
"Intermittent stream" defined
75
"Irreparable damage to the environment" defined
75.1
"Knowing or knowingly" defined
75.5
"Land eligible for remining" defined
76
"Land occasionally cut for hay" defined
77
"Land use" defined
78
"Litter" defined
79
"Material damage" defined
80
"Mining area" defined
81
"MSHA" defined
82
"Mulch" defined
83
"Native species" defined
84
"Natural hazard lands" defined
85
"Noncommercial building" defined
86
"Noxious weeds" defined
87
"Occupied dwelling" defined
88
"Occupied residential dwelling and structures related thereto" defined
89
"Operator" defined
90
"Other minerals" defined
91
"Other treatment facilities" defined
92
"Outslope" defined
93
"Overburden" defined
94
"Owned or controlled" and "owns or controls" defined
95
"Pastureland" defined
96
"Perennial stream" defined
97
"Performance bond" defined
98
"Permanent diversion" defined
99
"Permanent impoundment" defined
100
"Permit" defined
101
"Permit area" defined
102
"Permittee" defined
103
"Person" defined
104
"Person having an interest, which is or may be adversely affected or person with a valid legal interest" defined
105
"Pipeline" defined
106
"Precipitation event" defined
107
"Previously mined area" defined
108
"Prime farmland" defined
109
"Principal shareholder" defined
109.5
"Property boundary" defined
110
"Property to be mined" defined
111
"Public building" defined
112
"Public office" defined
113
"Public park" defined
114
"Public road" defined
115
"Randomly located" defined
116
"Recharge capacity" defined
117
"Reclamation" defined
118
"Recreation" defined
119
"Recurrence interval" defined
120
"Reference area" defined
121
"Refuse pile" defined
122
"Regional director" defined
123
"Renewable resource lands" defined
124
"Replacement of water supply" defined
125
"Residential" defined
126
"Road" defined
127
"Rooting media" defined
128
"Safety factor" defined
129
"Shadow area" defined
130
"Shelter belt" defined
131
"Significant, imminent environmental harm to land, air, or water resources" construed
132
"Siltation structure" defined
133
"Slope" defined
134
"Soil horizon" defined
135
"Soil productivity" defined
136
"Soil survey" defined
137
"Spoil" defined
138
"Stabilize" defined
139
"Steep slope" defined
140
"Subsoil" defined
141
"Substantial legal and financial commitments in a surface coal mining operation" defined
142
"Substantially disturb" defined
143
"Support facility" defined
144
"Surface coal mining and reclamation operations" defined
145
"Surface coal mining operation" defined
146
"Surface coal mining operations that exist on the date of enactment" defined
147
"Surface mining activities" defined
148
"Surface soil" defined
149
"Suspended solids or nonfilterable residue expressed as milligrams per liter" defined
150
"Temporary diversion" defined
151
"Temporary impoundment" defined
152
"Ton" defined
153
"Topsoil" defined
154
"Toxic-forming materials" defined
155
"Toxic mine drainage" defined
155.5
"Unanticipated event or condition" defined
156
"Underground development waste" defined
157
"Underground mining activities" defined
158
"Undeveloped land–no current use or land management" defined
159
"Valid existing rights" defined and construed
160
"Valley fill" defined
161
"Violation notice" defined
162
"Water table" defined
163
"Willful violation" defined