Section 45-6B-87 - Large-scale gold or silver surface mining operations not exempt from federallaws. - South Dakota Statutes

45-6B-87. Large-scale gold or silver surface mining operations not exempt from federal laws. Nothing in this chapter relieves the holder of any large-scale gold or silver surface mining permit from any of the requirements of the Clean Air Act of 1955, as amended, the Clean Water Act of 1977, the South Dakota Air Quality Act (chapter 34A-1), the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972, the Safe Drinking Water Act (P.L. 93-523), the Mine Safety and Health Administration regulations (30 C.F.R. Part 3830), United States Forest Service surface mining and exploration reclamation requirements (43 C.F.R., page 228), Bureau of Land Management mining and exploration requirements (43 C.F.R. Part 3800), the Mined Land Reclamation Act (this chapter), the regulated substance discharges statutes in chapter 34A-12, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 (P.L. 95-510), the Toxic Substance Control Act of 1976 (P.L. 94-469), Lawrence County extractive industries ordinances, and all rules and regulations promulgated to implement existing statutes, including rules dealing with air pollution, control of visible emissions, open burning, control of particulate emissions, control of sulfur compound emissions, new source performance standards, standards of performance for storage vessels of petroleum liquids, air standards, spill control plans, buried tanks, water pollution, public water systems, and dredge and fill permit requirements.

Source: SL 1990, ch 353, § 7.