(225 ILCS 720/3.16) (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 7903.16)
Sec. 3.16.
Offsite Areas.
(a) Offsite areas shall be protected from slides
or damage occurring during surface mining and reclamation operations.
(b) Surface mining operations that remove and do not replace the lateral
support shall not, unless mutually agreed on by the operator and the adjacent
property owner, approach property lines or established right-of-way lines
of any public roads, streets, or highways closer than a distance equal to
10 feet plus one and one-half times the depth of the excavation except where
consolidated material or materials of sufficient hardness or ability to
resist weathering and to inhibit erosion or sloughing exist in the highwall,
the distance from the property line or any established right-of way line
shall not, unless mutually agreed, be closer than a distance equal to 10
feet plus one and one-half times the depth from the natural ground surface
to the top of the consolidated material or materials.
(c) No operator shall deposit soil material or locate any part of the
surface mining and reclamation operations or waste accumulations outside
the permit area.
(Source: P.A. 81-1015.)
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