Disturbed area definition

Disturbed area means an area where the ground cover is destroyed or removed leaving the land subject to accelerated erosion.
Disturbed area means an area where vegetation, topsoil, or overburden is removed or upon which topsoil, spoil, coal processing waste, underground development waste, or noncoal waste is placed by surface coal mining operations. Those areas are classified as "disturbed" until reclamation is complete and the performance bond or other assurance of performance required by 405 KAR Chapter 10 is released.
Disturbed area means an area which is for the time being declared by notification under section 3 to be a disturbed area;

Examples of Disturbed area in a sentence

  • Land used for facilities in support of cropland farming operations which is adjacent to, or an integral part of, these operations is also included for purposes of this land use category.(11) "Department" means the Kentucky Department for Natural Resources.(12) "Disturbed area" means an area where vegetation, topsoil, or overburden is removed or upon which topsoil, spoil, mineral processing waste, underground development waste or similar waste is placed by mining activities.


More Definitions of Disturbed area

Disturbed area means any place where activities clearly in
Disturbed area means an area that is altered as a result of clearing, grading, and/or excavation.
Disturbed area means an area where vegetation, topsoil, or overburden is removed or upon which topsoil, spoil, coal processing waste, underground development waste, or noncoal waste is placed by coal mining operations. Those areas are classified as disturbed until reclamation is complete and the performance security or other assurance of performance required by section 1513.08 of the Revised Code is released.
Disturbed area means any place where activities clearly in preparation for, or during, surface mining have physically disrupted, covered, compacted, moved, or other- wise altered the characteristics of soil, bedrock, vegetation, or topography that existed prior to such activity. Disturbed areas may include but are not limited to: Working faces, water bod- ies created by mine-related excavation, pit floors, the land beneath processing plant and stock pile sites, spoil pile sites, and equipment staging areas. Disturbed areas shall also
Disturbed area means any place where activities clearly in preparation for, or during, surface mining have physically disrupted, covered, compacted, moved, or otherwise altered the characteristics of soil, bedrock, vegetation, or topography that existed prior to such activity. Disturbed areas may include but are not limited to: Working faces, water bodies created by mine-related excavation, pit floors, the land beneath processing plant and stock pile sites, spoil pile sites, and equipment staging areas. Disturbed areas shall also include aboveground waste rock sites and tailing facilities, and other surface manifestations of underground mines.
Disturbed area means any area on a quarry site that has been stripped of vegetation and is susceptible to erosion.
Disturbed area means an area in which natural vegetation is removed, exposing the underlying soil.