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.
Structure 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
§ 53-9-3. Legislative findings and declarations
§ 53-9-9. Administration and enforcement of chapter
§ 53-9-23. Surface coal mining and reclamation permit-reissuance
§ 53-9-29. Reclamation plan included in application; contents
§ 53-9-49. Authorized departures from performance standards; experimental practices
§ 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
§ 53-9-63. 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