CHAPTER NUMBER: 627
File Code: Environment
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegate Edwards
- Entitled:
-
Mining Operations - Extraction of Coal Incidental to Other Minerals
Excluding from the definitions of "open-pit mining", "strip mining",
and "surface coal mining", for purposes of provisions regulating
specified mining activities, the incidental extraction of coal at a
level that does not exceed 16 2/3% of the cumulative mineral
production from a mining site.
House Action
- 2/8
- First Reading Environmental Matters
- 2/17
- Hearing 3/4 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/15
- Favorable Report by Environmental Matters
- 3/16
- Favorable Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed
- 3/18
- Third Reading Passed (135-1)
- 4/4
- Return Passed
- 5/27
- Signed by the Governor Chapter 627
Senate Action
- 3/19
- First Reading Economic and Environmental Affairs
- 3/24
- Hearing 3/31 at 1:00 p.m.
- 4/2
- Favorable Report by Economic and Environmental Affairs
- 4/5
- Favorable Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed
- 4/6
- Third Reading Passed (46-0)
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- COAL
- COMMERCE AND BUSINESS -see also- ENTERPRISE ZONES;SMALL BUS.
- MINING -see also- COAL
- Bill affects the following Statute:
- Environment
- (
15-501
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
None offered
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
- House
- March 18, 1999: Third Reading Passed (135-1)
- Senate
- April 6, 1999: Third Reading Passed (46-0)