§ 27-1221 Surface disturbances created by new exploration operation or aggregate mining unit
§ 27-1222 Surface disturbances created by existing exploration operation or aggregate mining unit; extension; continuing operations
§ 27-1223 Creating surface disturbances of five acres or less
§ 27-1224 Inactive aggregate mining units
§ 27-1225 Remedial response to governmental orders
§ 27-1226 Initiation, extension and completion of reclamation
§ 27-1227 Substantial changes to approved reclamation plan
§ 27-1228 Transferring an approved reclamation plan
§ 27-1229 Notice of plan or substantial change; new exploration operations; new aggregate mining units
§ 27-1230 Notice of plan for existing exploration operations and existing aggregate mining units
§ 27-1231 Public disclosure of information; definition
§ 27-1232 Coordination with other governmental agencies
§ 27-1233 Fees; plan submissions; substantial changes; aggregate mining reclamation fund
§ 27-1234 Plan review and evaluation by private consultants
§ 27-1235 Appeals
§ 27-1236 Licensing time frames
§ 27-1237 Variances

Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 27 > Chapter 6 > Article 2 - General Regulatory Provisions

  • Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Aggregate mining unit: means an individual portion of an aggregate mining facility that encompasses one or more surface disturbances. See Arizona Laws 27-1201
  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Division: means the division of mined land reclamation in the office of the state mine inspector. See Arizona Laws 27-1201
  • Existing aggregate mining unit: means an aggregate mining unit, other than a new aggregate mining unit, that continued operations after April 1, 1997. See Arizona Laws 27-1201
  • Existing exploration operation: means an exploration operation that is ongoing as of the effective date of the initial rules adopted by the inspector pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 27-1201
  • Exploration operations: means activities that create surface disturbances outside an aggregate mining facility and that are conducted to determine the presence, location, extent, depth or grade of aggregate, including constructing access roads and drill pads. See Arizona Laws 27-1201
  • Inactive aggregate mining unit: means an aggregate mining unit that has not been operated after April 1, 1997 and for which there is a current identifiable owner or operator other than the federal or state government. See Arizona Laws 27-1201
  • including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Inspector: means the state mine inspector. See Arizona Laws 27-1201
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Maintenance: means an activity to preserve or repair the function of previously disturbed land, including grading roads, repairing berms or dams and dredging sedimentation basins. See Arizona Laws 27-1201
  • New exploration operation: means an exploration operation that begins after the effective date of the initial rules adopted pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 27-1201
  • Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Population: means the population according to the most recent United States decennial census. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Process: means a citation, writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Reclamation: means measures that are taken on surface disturbances at exploration operations and aggregate mining units to achieve stability and safety consistent with postaggregate mining land use objectives specified in the reclamation plan. See Arizona Laws 27-1201
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Surface disturbance: means clearing, covering or moving land by means of mechanized earthmoving equipment for aggregate mining and exploration but does not include surveying, assessment and location work, seismic work, maintenance and other such activities that create a de minimis disturbance. See Arizona Laws 27-1201
  • United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215