KRS 350.029: Regulations to implement Interstate Mining Compact -- Adoption --

Limitations.

The cabinet is hereby authorized and empowered to adopt, after public hearing,

reasonable regulations in order to formulate and establish effective programs for the

control of surface soil disturbance in connection with mining as defined by the Interstate

Mining Compact. Such regulations shall follow the general standards established in

Article III of the Interstate Mining Compact. The cabinet shall have the authority to adopt

such regulations prior to the effective date of the Interstate Mining Compact and

irrespective of whether the state becomes a member or withdraws from membership in

the Interstate Mining Compact. Nothing in this section shall be construed to grant the

cabinet additional authority in regulating the strip mining of coal or clay, and the

authority granted to the cabinet by this section shall be separate from the powers of the

cabinet already enacted relating to the strip mining of coal and clay.