Terms Used In Kansas Statutes > Chapter 49 > Article 6 - Surface-Mining Land Conservation and Reclamation

• Active site: means a site where surface mining is being conducted. See Kansas Statutes 49-603
• Affected land: means the area of land from which overburden has been removed or upon which overburden has been deposited, or both, but shall not include crushing areas, stockpile areas or roads. See Kansas Statutes 49-603
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Commission: means the conservation program policy board created in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 49-603
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Director: means the executive director of the division or a designee. See Kansas Statutes 49-603
• Division: means the division of conservation established within the Kansas department of agriculture in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 49-603
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Inactive site: means a site where surface mining is not being conducted but where overburden has been disturbed in the past for the purpose of conducting surface mining and an operator anticipates conducting further surface mining operations in the future. See Kansas Statutes 49-603
• Materials: means natural deposits of gypsum, clay, stone, sandstone, sand, shale, silt, gravel, volcanic ash or any other minerals of commercial value found on or in the earth with the exception of coal, oil and gas and those located within cut and fill portions of road rights-of-way. See Kansas Statutes 49-603
• Mine: means any underground or surface mine developed and operated for the purpose of extracting rocks, minerals and industrial materials, other than coal, oil and gas. See Kansas Statutes 49-603
• Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Operator: means any person who engages in surface mining or operation of an underground mine or mines. See Kansas Statutes 49-603
• Overburden: means all of the earth and other materials that lie above the natural deposits of material being mined or to be mined. See Kansas Statutes 49-603
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, government or other entity. See Kansas Statutes 49-603
• Pit: means a tract of land from which overburden has been or is being removed for the purpose of surface mining. See Kansas Statutes 49-603
• Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
• Property: includes personal and real property. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Reclamation: means the reconditioning of the area of land affected by surface mining to a usable condition for agricultural, recreational or other use. See Kansas Statutes 49-603
• road: include public bridges and may be construed to be equivalent to "county way" "county road" "common road" "state road" and "territorial road. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Secretary: means the Kansas secretary of agriculture. See Kansas Statutes 49-603
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Stockpile: means the finished products of the mining of gypsum, clay, shale, stone, sandstone, sand, silt, gravel, volcanic ash or other minerals and removal from its natural position and deposited elsewhere for future use in the normal operation as a business. See Kansas Statutes 49-603
• Surface mining: means the mining of material, except for coal, oil and gas, for sale or for processing or for consumption in the regular operation of a business by removing the overburden lying above natural deposits and mining directly from the natural deposits exposed, or by mining directly from deposits lying exposed in their natural state, or the surface effects of underground mining. See Kansas Statutes 49-603
• Topsoil: means the natural medium located at the land surface with favorable characteristics for growth of vegetation, which is normally the A or B, or both, soil horizon layers of the four soil horizons. See Kansas Statutes 49-603
• Underground mining: means the extraction of rocks, minerals and industrial materials, other than coal, oil and gas, from the earth by developing entries or shafts from the surface to the seam or deposit before recovering the product by underground extraction methods. See Kansas Statutes 49-603