When used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Administrator" means the division administrator of the division of soil conservation or a designee.
2. "Affected land" means the area of land from which over- burden has been removed or upon which overburden has been de- posited or both, including crushing areas and stockpile areas but not including roads.
3. "Committee" means the state soil conservation committee.
4. " Division" means the division of soil conservation within the department of agriculture and land stewardship.
5. "Mine" means any underground or surface mine developed and operated for the purpose of extracting any ores or mineral solids except coal.
6. "Mine site" means a site where surface mining is being conducted or has been conducted in the past and the operator anticipates further surface mining operations, or the surface operation related to an underground mine.
7. "Operator" means any person, firm, partnership, or corporation engaged in and controlling a mining operation but shall not include a political subdivision of the state of Iowa.
8. "Overburden" means all of the earth and other materials which lie above natural deposits of gypsum, clay, stone, sand, gravel or other minerals, and includes all earth and other materials disturbed from their natural state in the process of surface mining.
9. "Peak" means a projecting point of overburden removed from its natural position and deposited elsewhere in the process of surface mining.
10. "Pit" means a tract of land from which overburden has been or is being removed for the purpose of surface mining.
11. "Ridge" means a lengthened elevation of overburden removed from its natural position and deposited elsewhere in the process of surface mining.
12. "Surface mining" means the mining of gypsum, clay, stone, sand, gravel or other ores or mineral solids for sale or for processing or consumption in the regular operation of a business by removing the overburden lying above the natural deposits and mining directly from the natural deposits exposed, or by mining directly from deposits lying exposed in their natural state. Removal of overburden and mining of limited amounts of any ores or mineral solids shall not be considered surface mining when done only for the purpose and to the extent necessary to determine the location, quantity, or quality of the natural deposit, if the ores or mineral solids removed during exploratory excavation or mining are not sold, processed for sale, or consumed in the regular operation of a business.
13. "Topsoil" means the natural medium located at the land surface with favorable characteristics for growth of vegetation.
[C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 1244; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, § 82.27; C71, 73, § 82.27, 83A.2; C75, 77, 79, 81, § 83A.2]
85 Acts, ch 137, §2--;5; 86 Acts, ch 1245, § 602, 2050 ~IC93, § 208.2
Referred to in § 208.7
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