The Legislature of South Dakota finds that protection of the environment requires regulation of the total amount of land that can be disturbed by surface mining by largescale gold or silver surface mining operations at any given time.

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Source: Initiated Measure No. 2, approved November 3, 1992, effective November 19, 1992.