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DEFINITIONS <br />"Affected Land" means the surface of an azea within the state where a mining operation is being or will be <br />conducted, which surface is disturbed as a result of such operation. Affected lands include but shall not <br />be limited to private ways, roads, except those roads excluded pursuant to this Subsection 1.1(3), and <br />railroad lines appurtenant to any such azea; land excavations; exploration sites; drill sites or workings; <br />refuse banks or spoil piles; evaporation or settling ponds; work, parking, storage or waste dischazge <br />azeas; and azeas in which structures, facilities, equipment, machines, tools or other materials or property <br />which result from or aze used in such operations aze situated. AIl lands shall be excluded that would be <br />otherwise included as land affected but which have been reclaimed in accordance with an approved plan <br />or otherwise, as may be approved by the Boazd. Affected land shall not include off-site roads which <br />existed prior to the date on which notice was given or permit application was made to the office and <br />which were constructed for purposes unrelated to the proposed mining operation and wYrich will not be <br />substantially upgraded to support the mining operation. <br />"Aa~¢rieved" means suffering actual loss or injury, or being exposed to potential loss or injury, to legitimate <br />interests. Such interests include, but are not limited to, business, economic, aesthetic, governmental, <br />recreational, or conservational interests. <br />"Amendment" means a chat~e in the permit or an application which increases the acreage of the affected land, <br />or which has a significant effect upon the approved or proposed Reclamation Plan. <br />" licant" means any person who applies to the Office for a mining permit. <br />"Authorized Aeent" means any corporate officer, coiporate.attorney, individual person, or persons so designated <br />in the permit application. _ <br />"Filed" means an application submitted to the Office and determined to contain the permit application <br />information required by Subsections 1.4.1, 1.6.2(1)(a)(i) and (b), 1.6.2(1)(8), and Subsection: <br />• 1.4.2(2) fora 110 Limited Impact operation application; or <br />• 1.4.3(1) fora 110(6) Limited Impact Composite operation application; or <br />• 1.4.4(2) fora 111 Special Operation application; or <br />• 1.4.5(2) fora 112 Reclamation Permit Operation application. <br />A determination by the Office that an application submitted to the Office contains the referenced <br />application materials shall trigger the decision making periods provided under Sections 34-32.5-110(4), <br />111(5), or 34-32.5-115(1) and 115(2), C.R.S., as appropriate. Adeterminationthat anappli~ation is filed <br />does not constitute a determination that the application adequately meets statutory and. regulatory <br />requirements. <br />"Landowner" means any individual person or persons, firm, partnership, association, corporation, or any <br />department, division, or agency of federal, state, county, or municipal government which owns or <br />controls the surface rights to any land area under consideration for the extraction or exploration for <br />construction materials. These surface rights aze sepazate from mineral rights which may or may not be <br />owned and controlled by the same entity. <br />"Life of the Mine" means and includes, but is not limited to, those periods of time from when a permit is <br />initially issued, that an Operator engages in or plans to continue extraction of construction materials, <br />complies with the Act and these Rules, and as long as construction material reserves remain in the <br />