208.2 DEFINITIONS.
When used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Administrator" means the administrator of the division of
soil conservation or a designee.
2. "Affected land" means the area of land from which
overburden has been removed or upon which overburden has been
deposited or land which has otherwise been disturbed, changed,
influenced, or altered in any way in the course of mining, including
processing 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. "Exploration" means the mining of limited amounts of any
mineral to determine the location, quantity, or quality of the
mineral deposit.
6. "Highwall" means the unexcavated face of exposed
overburden and mineral in a surface mine.
7. "Mine" or "mine site" means a site where mining is
being conducted or has been conducted in the past.
8. "Mineral" means gypsum, clay, stone, sand, gravel, or
other ores or mineral solids, except coal.
9. "Mining" means the excavation of gypsum, clay, stone,
sand, gravel, or other ores or mineral solids, except coal, for sale
or for processing or consumption in the regular operation of a
business and shall include surface mining and underground mining.
10. "Mining operation" means activities conducted by an
operator on a mine site relative to the excavation of minerals and
shall include disturbing overburden, excavation, and processing of
minerals, stockpiling and removal of minerals from a site, and all
reclamation activities conducted on a mine site.
11. "Operator" means any person, firm, partnership,
corporation, or political subdivision engaged in and controlling a
mining operation.
12. "Overburden" means all of the earth and other materials
which lie above natural mineral deposits and includes all earth and
other materials disturbed from their natural state in the process of
mining.
13. "Pit floor" or "quarry floor" means the lower limit
of a surface excavation to extract minerals.
14. "Political subdivision" means any county, district, city,
or other public agency within the state of Iowa.
15. "Reclamation" means the process of restoring disturbed
lands to the premined uses of the lands or other productive uses.
16. "Surface mining" means mining by removing the overburden
lying above the natural deposits and excavating directly from the
natural deposits exposed, or by excavating directly from deposits
lying exposed in their natural state and shall include dredge
operations conducted in or on natural waterways or artificially
created waterways within the state.
17. "Topsoil" means the natural medium located at the land
surface with favorable characteristics for the growth of vegetation.
18. "Underground mining" means mining by digging or
constructing access tunnels, adits, ramps, or shafts and excavating
directly from the natural mineral deposits exposed.
208.2 DEFINITIONS.
When used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Administrator" means the administrator of the division of
soil conservation or a designee.
2. "Affected land" means the area of land from which
overburden has been removed or upon which overburden has been
deposited or land which has otherwise been disturbed, changed,
influenced, or altered in any way in the course of mining, including
processing 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. "Exploration" means the mining of limited amounts of any
mineral to determine the location, quantity, or quality of the
mineral deposit.
6. "Highwall" means the unexcavated face of exposed
overburden and mineral in a surface mine.
7. "Mine" or "mine site" means a site where mining is
being conducted or has been conducted in the past.
8. "Mineral" means gypsum, clay, stone, sand, gravel, or
other ores or mineral solids, except coal.
9. "Mining" means the excavation of gypsum, clay, stone,
sand, gravel, or other ores or mineral solids, except coal, for sale
or for processing or consumption in the regular operation of a
business and shall include surface mining and underground mining.
10. "Mining operation" means activities conducted by an
operator on a mine site relative to the excavation of minerals and
shall include disturbing overburden, excavation, and processing of
minerals, stockpiling and removal of minerals from a site, and all
reclamation activities conducted on a mine site.
11. "Operator" means any person, firm, partnership,
corporation, or political subdivision engaged in and controlling a
mining operation.
12. "Overburden" means all of the earth and other materials
which lie above natural mineral deposits and includes all earth and
other materials disturbed from their natural state in the process of
mining.
13. "Pit floor" or "quarry floor" means the lower limit
of a surface excavation to extract minerals.
14. "Political subdivision" means any county, district, city,
or other public agency within the state of Iowa.
15. "Reclamation" means the process of restoring disturbed
lands to the premined uses of the lands or other productive uses.
16. "Surface mining" means mining by removing the overburden
lying above the natural deposits and excavating directly from the
natural deposits exposed, or by excavating directly from deposits
lying exposed in their natural state and shall include dredge
operations conducted in or on natural waterways or artificially
created waterways within the state.
17. "Topsoil" means the natural medium located at the land
surface with favorable characteristics for the growth of vegetation.
18. "Underground mining" means mining by digging or
constructing access tunnels, adits, ramps, or shafts and excavating
directly from the natural mineral deposits exposed.
208.2 DEFINITIONS.
When used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Administrator" means the administrator of the division of
soil conservation or a designee.
2. "Affected land" means the area of land from which
overburden has been removed or upon which overburden has been
deposited or land which has otherwise been disturbed, changed,
influenced, or altered in any way in the course of mining, including
processing 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. "Exploration" means the mining of limited amounts of any
mineral to determine the location, quantity, or quality of the
mineral deposit.
6. "Highwall" means the unexcavated face of exposed
overburden and mineral in a surface mine.
7. "Mine" or "mine site" means a site where mining is
being conducted or has been conducted in the past.
8. "Mineral" means gypsum, clay, stone, sand, gravel, or
other ores or mineral solids, except coal.
9. "Mining" means the excavation of gypsum, clay, stone,
sand, gravel, or other ores or mineral solids, except coal, for sale
or for processing or consumption in the regular operation of a
business and shall include surface mining and underground mining.
10. "Mining operation" means activities conducted by an
operator on a mine site relative to the excavation of minerals and
shall include disturbing overburden, excavation, and processing of
minerals, stockpiling and removal of minerals from a site, and all
reclamation activities conducted on a mine site.
11. "Operator" means any person, firm, partnership,
corporation, or political subdivision engaged in and controlling a
mining operation.
12. "Overburden" means all of the earth and other materials
which lie above natural mineral deposits and includes all earth and
other materials disturbed from their natural state in the process of
mining.
13. "Pit floor" or "quarry floor" means the lower limit
of a surface excavation to extract minerals.
14. "Political subdivision" means any county, district, city,
or other public agency within the state of Iowa.
15. "Reclamation" means the process of restoring disturbed
lands to the premined uses of the lands or other productive uses.
16. "Surface mining" means mining by removing the overburden
lying above the natural deposits and excavating directly from the
natural deposits exposed, or by excavating directly from deposits
lying exposed in their natural state and shall include dredge
operations conducted in or on natural waterways or artificially
created waterways within the state.
17. "Topsoil" means the natural medium located at the land
surface with favorable characteristics for the growth of vegetation.
18. "Underground mining" means mining by digging or
constructing access tunnels, adits, ramps, or shafts and excavating
directly from the natural mineral deposits exposed.
