The Interstate Mining Compact is hereby enacted into law and entered into with all other jurisdictions legally joining therein in the form substantially as follows:
ARTICLE I. Finding and Purposes
ARTICLE II. Definitions
As used in this compact, the term:
ARTICLE III. State Programs
Each party state agrees that within a reasonable time it will formulate and establish an effective program for the conservation and use of mined land, by the establishment of standards, enactment of laws, or the continuing of the same in force, to accomplish:
ARTICLE IV. Powers
In addition to any other powers conferred upon the interstate mining commission, established by Article V of this compact, such commission shall have power to:
ARTICLE V. The Commission
ARTICLE VI. Advisory, Technical, and Regional Committees
The commission shall establish such advisory, technical, and regional committees as it may deem necessary, membership on which shall include private persons and public officials, and shall cooperate with and use the services of any such committees and the organizations which the members represent in furthering any of its activities. Such committees may be formed to consider problems of special interest to any party states, problems dealing with particular commodities or types of mining operations, problems related to reclamation, development, or use of mined land, or any other matters of concern to the commission.
ARTICLE VII. Finance
ARTICLE VIII. Entry Into Force and Withdrawal
ARTICLE IX.
Nothing in this compact shall be construed to limit, repeal or supersede any other law of any party state.
ARTICLE X. Construction and Severability
This compact shall be liberally construed so as to effectuate the purposes thereof. The provisions of this compact shall be severable and if any phrase, clause, sentence or provision of this compact is declared to be contrary to the constitution of any state of the United States, or if the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person or circumstance is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of this compact and the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person or circumstance shall not be affected thereby. If this compact shall be held contrary to the constitution of any state participating herein, the compact shall remain in full force and effect as to the remaining party states and in full force and effect as to the state affected as to all severable matters.