TITLE 62: MINING CHAPTER I: DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES PART 280 ILLINOIS SURFACE COAL MINING OPERATIONS The General Assembly's Illinois Administrative Code database includes only those rulemakings that have been permanently adopted. This menu will point out the Sections on which an emergency rule (valid for a maximum of 150 days, usually until replaced by a permanent rulemaking) exists. The emergency rulemaking is linked through the notation that follows the Section heading in the menu. View Entire Part Section 280.10 Definitions Section 280.20 General Provisions Section 280.30 Existing Surface Mines Section 280.40 Existing Underground Coal Mines Section 280.50 New Surface Mines Section 280.60 New Underground Coal Mines Section 280.70 Prime Farmland Determinations and Findings Section 280.80 Enforcement Procedures Section 280.90 Transitions

AUTHORITY: Implementing, and authorized by Section 12 of, the Surface-Mined Land Conservation and Reclamation Act [225 ILCS 715].

SOURCE: Adopted at 3 Ill. Reg. 5, p. 819, effective February 2, 1979; emergency amendment at 4 Ill. Reg. 22, p. 290, effective June 1, 1980, for a maximum of 150 days; amended at 4 Ill. Reg. 44, p. 472, effective November 21, 1980; emergency amendment at 5 Ill. Reg. 8104, effective July 29, 1981, for a maximum of 150 days; amended at 6 Ill. Reg. 1, effective January 14, 1982, codified at 7 Ill. Reg. 9905; recodified from the Department of Mines and Minerals to the Department of Natural Resources at 21 Ill. Reg. 16192.