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DIVISION 2 - GEOLOGY, MINES AND MINING
CHAPTER 9 - Surface Mining and Reclamation Act of 175
ARTICLE 2 - Definitions
Section 2727.1.
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CA Pub Res Code § 2727.1 (2025)
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2727.1. “Idle” means that an operator of a surface mining operation has curtailed production at the surface mining operation, with the intent to resume the surface mining operation at a future date, for a period of one year or more by more than 90 percent of its maximum annual mineral production within any of the last five years during which an interim management plan has not been approved.
(Amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 491, Sec. 1. (SB 108) Effective January 1, 2012.)
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