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TITLE 30 - Minerals, Oil, and Gas and Environmental Quality
RS 30:905.4 - Exclusion and exemption of water resources
Universal Citation: LA Rev Stat § 30:905.4 (2018)
§905.4. Exclusion and exemption of water resources
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 this supply has been affected by contamination, diminution, or interruption proximately resulting from the surface coal mine operation.
Acts 1985, No. 281, §1; Acts 2008, No. 278, §3.
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