| United States - Law - 1983 - 1156 pages
...original contour" means that surface configuration achieved by backfilling and grading of the mined area so that the reclaimed area, including any terracing...pattern of the surrounding terrain, with all highwalls and spoil piles eliminated; water impoundments may be permitted where the regulatory authority determines... | |
| Administrative law - 1988 - 900 pages
...original contour means that surface configuration achieved by backfilling and grading of the mined area so that the reclaimed area, including any terracing...pattern of the surrounding terrain, with all highwalls and spoil piles eliminated; water impoundments may be permitted where the regulatory authority determines... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Interior and Insular Affairs Committee - 1975 - 360 pages
...configuration achieved by backfilling and grading of the mined area so that it closely resembles the surface configuration of the land prior to mining...surrounding terrain, with all highwalls, spoil piles, and depressions eliminated except that water impoundments may be permitted where the regulatory authority... | |
| Charles Fredrick Schwarz, Edward C. Thor, Gary H. Elsner - Forest management - 1976 - 278 pages
...configuration achieved by backfilling and grading of the mined area so that it closely resembles that surface configuration of the land prior to mining...the surrounding terrain, with all highwalls, spoil banks and depressions eliminated . . . except water impoundments. (Surface Mining Control and Reclamation... | |
| Council of Energy Resource Tribes - Government publications - 1979 - 424 pages
...original contour" means that surface configuration achieved by backfilling and grading of the mined area so that the reclaimed area- including any terracing...pattern of the surrounding terrain- with all highwalls and spoil piles eliminated; water impoundments may be permitted where the regulatory authority determines... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business - Coal - 1979 - 874 pages
...original contour" means that surface configuration achieved by backfilling and grading of the mined area so that the reclaimed area, including any terracing...pattern of the surrounding terrain, with all highwalls and spoil piles eliminated; water impoundments may be permitted where the regulatory authority determines... | |
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