Mississippi Code
Mississippi Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation Law
§ 53-9-27. Filing of permit application with chancery court clerk; public inspection; exclusion of confidential information

Each applicant for a permit shall file, within ten (10) days after filing with the permit board, a copy of its application for public inspection with the clerk of the chancery court of the county or judicial district where the mining is to occur and where real property contiguous to the surface coal mining and reclamation operation is located, if that property is located in more than one (1) county or judicial district. The applicant may omit from its filing information in its permit application pertaining to the quality, depth or width of the coal seam or the location of the coal seam within the permit area included in the application, if that information has been determined to be confidential by the commission under Section 53-9-43.

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Mississippi Code

Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals

Chapter 9 - Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation of Land

Mississippi Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation Law

§ 53-9-1. Short title

§ 53-9-3. Legislative findings and declarations

§ 53-9-5. Purpose

§ 53-9-7. Definitions

§ 53-9-9. Administration and enforcement of chapter

§ 53-9-23. Surface coal mining and reclamation permit-reissuance

§ 53-9-26. Surface coal mining and reclamation permit; application cost assistance to small operators

§ 53-9-27. Filing of permit application with chancery court clerk; public inspection; exclusion of confidential information

§ 53-9-29. Reclamation plan included in application; contents

§ 53-9-32. Surface coal mining and reclamation permit; preparation of plain language summary of proposed operation and reclamation

§ 53-9-33. Surface coal mining and reclamation permit; requisites for approval of application for permit; schedule of notices of violation; permit to mine on prime farmland; restriction on transfer of rights; modification of permit provisions

§ 53-9-39. Disposition of application for permit; manner of notifying interested parties; hearing before review board and notification of decision; temporary relief; right to judicial appeal

§ 53-9-45. Promulgation of regulations and performance standards relating to surface mining; variances

§ 53-9-49. Authorized departures from performance standards; experimental practices

§ 53-9-51. Records, reports and equipment to be maintained by permittees; evaluation of results; specification of monitoring sites; entry and inspection by department; release of materials to public

§ 53-9-53. Sign at entrance of surface coal mining and reclamation operation

§ 53-9-57. Criminal penalties; violation of condition of permit or order

§ 53-9-61. Criminal penalties; resisting, preventing, impeding, or interfering with performance of duties

§ 53-9-63. Nonexclusivity of penalty provisions

§ 53-9-73. Cooperation with Secretary of Interior

§ 53-9-75. Application of chapter to public corporations

§ 53-9-81. Inapplicability of chapter

§ 53-9-83. Lease of state coal deposits

§ 53-9-87. Training, examination, and certification of persons responsible for blasting