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Virginia Administrative Code
Title 4
25
Chapter 101
Regulations Governing Vertical Ventilation Holes and Mining Near Gas and Oil Wells
10
Definitions.
20
Application for permits; maps or plats; notice.
30
Receipt of coal seam information; decision on casing.
40
Expiration of permit.
50
Venting methane; bleeder system.
60
Requirements for issuance of permit.
70
Filing of objections; scheduling of hearing.
80
Location of vertical ventilation hole.
90
Recordkeeping.
100
Review of action of chief.
110
Casing requirements for vertical ventilation holes.
120
Survey requirements.
130
Correction requirements.
140
Filing of report.
150
Mining within 500 feet of a vertical ventilation hole or gas well.
160
Mining within 200 feet of a vertical ventilation hole, gas well or pipeline.
170
Pillars of coal to be left unmined, and other protective measures.
180
Mining within 200 feet of a plugged vertical ventilation hole or gas well.
190
Mining seams impacted by vertical ventilation holes and coalbed methane wells intended to degas the seams being mined.
200
Plugging of vertical ventilation holes.
210
Identifying plugged holes; plugging affidavit.
220
Annual report; abandonment.
9998
Forms (4Vac25-101).