FLOOD09598

• County: Huerfano
• Community: Huerfano County
• Stream Name: Arkansas River and Tributaries
• Basin: Arkansas
• Title: Huerfano County Regulations for Areas and Activities of State Interest
• Date: 6/1/1976
• Prepared For: Huerfano County
• Prepared By: Andrew Nigrini
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Miscellaneous

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the least practicable disruption of the ecology and quality
of life of the citizens of the state;

(10) Protect and perpetuate the taxable value of property; and

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(11) Protect and promote the health, safety, and general welfare
of the people of this state.

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2-102 Definitions.

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(1) "Affected Land" means the area of land from which any amount
overburden has been removed, or upon which any amount of
overburden has been deposited, or both. This term also in-
cludes the disturbed surface of an area where a mining oper-
ation is being or will be conducted, including but not limited
to: onsite private ways, roads, and railroad lines; land
excavations; development drill sites or workings; refuse
banks or spoil piles; evaporation or settling ponds; leaching
dumps; placer areas; tailings' ponds or dumps; work, parking,
storage or waste discharge areas; areas in which structures,
facilities, equipment, machines, tools, or other materials
or property which result from or are used in such operations,
are situated.

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(2) "Commercial Mineral Deposit" means a natural mineral deposit
for which extraction by an extractor is or will be commer-
cially feasible and regarding which it can be demonstrated
by geologic, mineralogic, or other scientific data that such
deposit has significant economic or strategic value to the
area, state, or nation.

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(3) "Mineral" means an inanimate ,constituent of the earth in
either solid, liquid, or gaseous state which, when extracted
from the earth, is usable in its natural form or is capable
of conversion into usable form as a metal, a metallic com-
pound, a chemical, an energy source, a raw material for
manufacturing, or construction material. This definition
does not include surface or ground water subject to appro-
priation for domestic, agricultural, or industrial purposes,
nor does it include geothermal resources.

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(4) "Mineral Resource Area" means an area in which minerals are
located in sufficient concentration in veins, deposits, bodies,
beds, seams, fields, pools, or otherwise, as to be capable
of economic recovery. The term includes but is not limited
to any area in which there has been significant mining
activity in the past, there is significant mining activity
in the present, mining development is planned or in progress,
or mineral rights are held by mineral patent or valid mining
claims with the intention of mining. The term also includes
an area of oil and gas or geothermal resource development if
such area has been identified by the state oil and gas

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