295.43 Responsibilities related to mining. The department shall serve as the central unit of state government to ensure that the impact from mining and reclamation on the air, lands, waters, plants, fish, and wildlife in this state will be minimized and offset to the extent practicable. The administration of occupational health and safety laws and rules that apply to mining remain exclusively the responsibility of the department of safety and professional services. The powers and duties of the geological and natural history survey under s. 36.25 (6) remain exclusively the responsibility of the geological and natural history survey. Nothing in this section prevents the department of safety and professional services and the geological and natural history survey from cooperating with the department in the exercise of their respective powers and duties.
History: 2013 a. 1.
Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 295 - Nonmetallic mining reclamation; oil and gas; ferrous metallic mining.
295.12 - Nonmetallic mining reclamation rules.
295.13 - Mandatory enactment and administration of ordinance by counties.
295.14 - Authority to enact and administer ordinance.
295.16 - Applicability of nonmetallic mining reclamation requirements.
295.19 - Enforcement; remedies; penalties.
295.20 - Preservation of marketable nonmetallic mineral deposits.
295.31 - Definitions; oil and gas.
295.33 - Oil and gas exploration and production.
295.35 - Departmental powers and duties; oil and gas.
295.37 - Penalties; oil and gas.
295.40 - Legislative findings.
295.43 - Responsibilities related to mining.
295.443 - Local impact committee; local agreement.
295.46 - Preapplication description.
295.465 - Preapplication notification.
295.47 - Application for mining permit.
295.51 - Mining waste site location criteria; feasibility study, and plan of operation.
295.53 - Environmental impact statement.
295.57 - Application procedure.
295.58 - Mining; department grant or denial of permit.
295.59 - Bonds and other security.
295.605 - Impacts to navigable waters.
295.607 - Shoreland and floodplain zoning.
295.61 - Withdrawals of surface waters and groundwater.
295.62 - Mining waste site construction and completion reports.
295.63 - Modifications; reporting.
295.635 - Required mining waste site inspections, record keeping, reporting, and responses.
295.64 - Mining site monitoring; general.
295.643 - Mining waste site monitoring.
295.645 - Groundwater quality, monitoring, and response.
295.66 - Cessation of mining or reclamation.
295.67 - Determination of abandonment of mining.
295.68 - Certificates of completion and release of security.
295.69 - Termination of proof of financial responsibility for long-term care of mining waste site.
295.695 - Inspections by the department.
295.75 - Effect of other laws.