All Minerals and Mining Legislation - Kentucky
SR272
Latest Action: 04/15/2008 - Introduced in Senate; adopted 38-0 Bill Text Confirm the appointment of Stanton Cave to the Mine Safety Review Commission. Comment on Bill SR254
Latest Action: 04/15/2008 - Introduced in Senate; to Rules (S); posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Tuesday, April 15, 2008; adopted 38-0 Bill Text Confirm the appointment of William David Donan to the Mine Safety Review Commission. HB717
Latest Action: 04/14/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 97) Bill Text Create new sections of KRS Chapter 151 to define "fees-in-lieu," hydrologic unit code," "mitigation organization," "mitigation," "restoration," "riparian," "Section 404 permit," "watershed," "USACE" and "2020 water management planning council"; require restoration and mitigation planning to be on a watershed basis; grant permissive authority for the creation of seven-member Stream Restoration and Mitigation Authorities for each watershed in the Commonwealth; specify the function and powers of the Stream Restoration and Mitigation Authorities; allow 2020 water management planning councils to contact water service coordinators to request assistance with establishing authorities and nominate members; require members of the authority to serve ex officio on 2020 water management planning councils; attach the authorities to the Department for Natural Resources; vest authorities with public stewardship responsibility over the watershed's water resources and riparian environments; require authorities [...] show full description SB243
Latest Action: 04/10/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 57) Bill Text Amend KRS 224.50-760 to include wastes generated from coal gasification as special wastes. SB213
Latest Action: 03/20/2008 - To Natural Resources & Environment (H) Bill Text Amend KRS 352.640 to require emergency action plans to include the telephone numbers of an ambulance or first responders with which the licensee has made arrangements for 24-hour emergency medical assistance; the name and telephone numbers of the company that provides medical air evacuation service to the ambulance or first responders posted in the office at the mine site; and the global positioning system coordinates for a primary and secondary medical evacuation site suitable for air evacuation; require coordinates to be posted on the mine site and maintained at the Kentucky State Police post or the 9-1-1 call center that serves the county where the mine site is located. HB652
Latest Action: 03/25/2008 - Recommitted to Natural Resources & Environment (H) Bill Text Amend KRS 350.060 to require a current land survey performed by a licensed land surveyor be submitted to obtain surface coal mining permit. SB166
Latest Action: 03/14/2008 - Reassigned to Appropriations & Revenue (S) Bill Text Create a new section of KRS Chapter 351 to establish scholarships on behalf of survivors of fallen coal miners; create a new section of KRS Chapter 164A to provide for administration of scholarship payments for survivors of fallen coal miners; create a new section of KRS Chapter 42 to provide for funding of scholarships. HB520
Latest Action: 03/11/2008 - Floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute Bill Text Create a new section of KRS Chapter 42 to establish payments to or on behalf of survivors of fallen coal miners; create a new section of KRS Chapter 164A to provide for administration of scholarship payments for children of fallen coal miners; amend KRS 351.070 to require notification concerning fallen coal miners. SJ72
Latest Action: 03/20/2008 - To Natural Resources & Environment (H) Bill Text Direct the Environmental and Public Protection Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations for emergency action plans for high or significant hazard impoundment dams. SR54
Latest Action: 01/29/2008 - Adopted by voice vote Bill Text Adjourn the Senate in loving memory and honor of coal miner Roy D. Sturgill. HB315
Latest Action: 01/17/2008 - To Natural Resources & Environment (H) Bill Text Amend KRS 351.127 to require two emergency medical or mine emergency technicians for surface mining operations with ten or more employees and one emergency medical or mine emergency technician for surface operations with less than ten employees. HC39
Latest Action: 03/11/2008 - Posted in committee Bill Text Confirm the appointment of Stanton Cave to the Mine Safety Review Commission, for a term expiring May 23, 2010. HC40
Latest Action: 03/26/2008 - To Agriculture & Natural Resources (S) Bill Text Confirm the appointment of William David Donan to the Mine Safety Review Commission. HB286
Latest Action: 01/15/2008 - To Natural Resources & Environment (H) Bill Text Create new subchapter of KRS Chapter 224 to provide for a limited sand and gravel permit for extraction operations of under one acre conducted by the property owner. HB273
Latest Action: 01/15/2008 - To Appropriations & Revenue (H) Bill Text Amend KRS 342.122 to eliminate the allocation of 19 million dollars each year from coal severance tax receipts to the reserve fund of the Kentucky Workers' Compensation Funding Commission; amend KRS 42.4582, 42.4585, 164.7891, and 164.7901 to conform; repeal KRS 48.112. HB164
Latest Action: 01/09/2008 - To Natural Resources & Environment (H) Bill Text Amend KRS 350.450 to change requirements relating to restoration to original contour of surface mines, and to require that when all requirements of the amended KRS 350.450 are met that the configuration requirements of KRS 350.410 and 350.445 may be altered, but that overburden must be returned to mine area to the maximum extent possible and that other overburden is to be disposed of in permitted areas or previously mined areas, and that no overburden is to be disposed of in the waters of the Commonwealth; amend KRS 350.440 to provide that no spoil be disposed of in the waters of the Commonwealth, and that any spoil not returned to mine area be disposed of only in previously disturbed areas on lands eligible for reclamation under the abandoned mine land program. SB54
Latest Action: 02/28/2008 - To Transportation (H) Bill Text Create new subchapter of KRS Chapter 224 to provide for a limited sand and gravel permit for extraction operations of under one acre conducted by the property owner. |
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