2013 US Code
Title 30 - Mineral Lands and Mining
Chapter 25 - SURFACE MINING CONTROL AND RECLAMATION (§§ 1201 - 1328)
Subchapter VII - ADMINISTRATIVE AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS (§§ 1291 - 1309b)
Section 1307 - Water rights and replacement
| Publication Title | United States Code, 2012 Edition, Supplement 1, Title 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING |
| Category | Bills and Statutes |
| Collection | United States Code |
| SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
| Contained Within | Title 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 25 - SURFACE MINING CONTROL AND RECLAMATION SUBCHAPTER VII - ADMINISTRATIVE AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS Sec. 1307 - Water rights and replacement |
| Contains | section 1307 |
| Date | 2013 |
| Laws in Effect as of Date | January 16, 2014 |
| Positive Law | No |
| Disposition | standard |
| Source Credit | Pub. L. 95-87, title VII, §717, Aug. 3, 1977, 91 Stat. 526. |
| Statutes at Large Reference | 91 Stat. 526 |
| Public Law Reference | Public Law 95-87 |
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(a) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as affecting in any way the right of any person to enforce or protect, under applicable law, his interest in water resources affected by a surface coal mining operation.
(b) The operator of a surface coal mine shall replace the water supply of an owner of interest in real property who obtains all or part of his supply of water for domestic, agricultural, industrial, or other legitimate use from an underground or surface source where such supply has been affected by contamination, diminution, or interruption proximately resulting from such surface coal mine operation.
(Pub. L. 95–87, title VII, §717, Aug. 3, 1977, 91 Stat. 526.)
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