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<br />certain areas and land uses were incompatible with surface coal <br />mining operations, Therefore, SMCRA section 522(e) states <br />J(...continued) <br />(2) on any Federal lands within the boundaries of any <br />national forest: Provided.. however, That surface coal <br />mining operations may be permitted on such lands if the <br />Secretary finds that there are no significant recreational, <br />timber, economic, or other .values which may be incompatible <br />with such surface mining of~erations and-- <br />(A) surface operations and. impacts are incident to an <br />underground coal mine; or <br />(B) where the Secretary <br />respect to lands which do <br />within those national for <br />that surface mining is in <br />Sustained-Yield Act of 19 <br />Amendments Act of 1975, t. <br />of 1976, and the provisio <br />furt er, that no surface <br />permitted within the boun <br />Forest; <br />Agriculture determines,. with <br />t have significant forest cover <br />s west.of the 100th meridian, <br />mpliance with the Multiple-Use <br />the Federal Coal Leasing <br />National Forest Management Act <br />of this Act: And provided <br />1 mining operations may be <br />ies of the Custer. National <br />(3) which will :adversely.ai.'fect any:publicly.owned park or . <br />places included in the National Register of Historic Sites <br />unless approved jointly by~the regulatory authority and the <br />Federal, State, or local ac_Jency with jurisdiction over the <br />park or the historic site;' <br />(4) within one hundred feel: of the outside right-of-way line <br />of any public road, except where mine access roads or <br />haulage roads join such ri <br />the regulatory authority m <br />relocated or the area affe <br />feet of such road, if afte <br />for public hearing in the <br />that the interests of the <br />-thereby will be protected; <br />ht-of-way line and except that <br />y permit such roads to be <br />ted to lie within one hundred <br />_public notice and opportunity <br />ocality a written finding is made <br />ublic and the landowners affected <br />or ' <br />'(5) within three hundred.fi:et from any occupied dwelling, <br />unless waived by the owner thereof, nor within three hundred <br />_ __ feet. of any public buildin~~, .school, church, community, or <br />.institutional building, public park, or within one hundred <br />feet of a cemetery. ~ • <br />30 U.S.C: § 1272(e) (emphasis added). <br />S. Rep. No. 128, 95th Cong. lst Sess. 55 (1977). <br />