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2009 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 350 SURFACE COAL MINING
350.421 Protection of water resources.
Download pdfaffected by a surface coal mining operation or an underground coal mine. (2) Each permittee or operator of a surface or underground 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 the supply has been affected by
contamination, diminution, or interruption proximately resulting from the surface or
underground coal mine. Effective: July 15, 1994
History: Amended 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 311, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1994. Amended 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 429, sec. 27, effective July 14, 1992. -- Created 1980 Ky. Acts
ch. 62, sec. 37. Legislative Research Commission Note. The provisions of this section became operative on May 18, 1982, when the conditional approval granted by the United
States Secretary of the Interior appeared in the Federal Register.
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