Terms Used In Utah Code 40-8-13

• Board: means the Board of Oil, Gas, and Mining. See Utah Code 40-8-4
• City: includes , depending on population, a metro township as defined in Section 10-3c-102. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Division: means the Division of Oil, Gas, and Mining. See Utah Code 40-8-4
• Exploration: includes :
            (13)(b)(i) sinking shafts;
            (13)(b)(ii) tunneling;
            (13)(b)(iii) drilling holes and digging pits or cuts;
            (13)(b)(iv) building of roads, and other access ways; and
            (13)(b)(v) constructing and operating other facilities related to the activities described in this Subsection (13)(b). See Utah Code 40-8-4
• Hearing: means a formal adjudicative proceeding conducted by the board under the board's procedural rules. See Utah Code 40-8-4
• Land: includes :
       (18)(a) land;
       (18)(b) a tenement;
       (18)(c) a hereditament;
       (18)(d) a water right;
       (18)(e) a possessory right; and
       (18)(f) a claim. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Land affected: means the surface and subsurface of an area within the state where mining operations are being or will be conducted, including:
            (17)(a)(i) on-site private ways, roads, and railroads;
            (17)(a)(ii) land excavations;
            (17)(a)(iii) exploration sites;
            (17)(a)(iv) drill sites or workings;
            (17)(a)(v) refuse banks or spoil piles;
            (17)(a)(vi) evaporation or settling ponds;
            (17)(a)(vii) stockpiles;
            (17)(a)(viii) leaching dumps;
            (17)(a)(ix) placer areas;
            (17)(a)(x) tailings ponds or dumps; and
            (17)(a)(xi) work, parking, storage, or waste discharge areas, structures, and facilities. See Utah Code 40-8-4
• Large mining operation: means a mining operation that is not a small mining operation and, for purposes of filing a notice of intention, does not include an exploration mining operation. See Utah Code 40-8-4
• mineral deposit: means an accumulation of mineral matter in the form of consolidated rock, unconsolidated material, solutions, or occurring on the surface, beneath the surface, or in the waters of the land from which any product useful to man may be produced, extracted, or obtained or which is extracted by underground mining methods for underground storage. See Utah Code 40-8-4
• Mining operation: means activities conducted on the surface of the land for the exploration for, development of, or extraction of a mineral deposit, including surface mining and the surface effects of underground and in situ mining, on-site transportation, concentrating, milling, evaporation, and other primary processing. See Utah Code 40-8-4
• Notice: means :
       (20)(a) notice of intention, as defined in this chapter; or
       (20)(b) written information given to an operator by the division describing compliance conditions at a mining operation. See Utah Code 40-8-4
• Notice of intention: means a notice to commence mining operations, including revisions to the notice. See Utah Code 40-8-4
• Operator: means a natural person, corporation, association, partnership, receiver, trustee, executor, administrator, guardian, fiduciary, agent, or other organization or representative, either public or private, owning, controlling, or managing a mining operation or proposed mining operation. See Utah Code 40-8-4
• Order: means written information provided by the division or board to an operator or other parties, describing the compliance status of a permit or mining operation. See Utah Code 40-8-4
• Owner: means a natural person, corporation, association, partnership, receiver, trustee, executor, administrator, guardian, fiduciary, agent, or other organization or representative, either public or private, owning, controlling, or managing a mineral deposit or the surface of lands employed in mining operations. See Utah Code 40-8-4
• Permit: means a permit order. See Utah Code 40-8-4
• Permit order: means an action by the division that:
       (29)(a)

            (29)(a)(i) approves a notice of intention to commence a large mining operation or revise or amend a large mining operation; or

            (29)(a)(ii) declares a notice of intention for a large mining operation deficient;
       (29)(b)

            (29)(b)(i) accepts as complete a notice of intention to commence a small mining operation or revise or amend a small mining operation; and

            (29)(b)(ii) approves the amount and form of surety for a notice of intention; or
       (29)(c) approves a notice of intention to conduct an exploration operation or revise or amend an exploration operation. See Utah Code 40-8-4
• Person: means an individual, partnership, association, society, joint stock company, firm, company, corporation, or other governmental or business organization. See Utah Code 40-8-4
• Reclamation: means actions performed during or after mining operations to shape, stabilize, revegetate, or treat the land affected in order to achieve a safe, stable ecological condition and use that is consistent with local environmental conditions. See Utah Code 40-8-4
• Review proceeding: means a proceeding under this chapter to address a challenge to a permit order. See Utah Code 40-8-4
• Small mining operations: means mining operations that disturb or will disturb 20 or less surface acres at any given time in an unincorporated area of a county or 10 or less surface acres at any given time in an incorporated area of a county. See Utah Code 40-8-4
• Substantive public comment: means a public comment that:
       (38)(a) is specific to a proposed action;
       (38)(b) has a direct relationship to the proposed action;
       (38)(c) includes supporting reasons for the division to consider; and
       (38)(d) addresses issues that are within the scope of the division's jurisdiction. See Utah Code 40-8-4
• Writing: includes :
       (48)(a) printing;
       (48)(b) handwriting; and
       (48)(c) information stored in an electronic or other medium if the information is retrievable in a perceivable format. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5