§ 45.1-262. Eligible lands and water; priorities for expenditures

VA Code § 45.1-262 (2019) (N/A)
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A. Lands and water eligible for reclamation or drainage abatement expenditures under this article are those which were mined for coal or which were affected by such mining, waste banks, coal processing, or other coal mining processes, and abandoned or left in an inadequate reclamation status and for which there is no continuing reclamation responsibility under state or federal laws.

B. The Director shall establish priorities in the State Reclamation Plan for the expenditure of funds in conformance with the priorities set forth in § 403 of the federal act.

1979, c. 290; 1984, c. 590.