                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN PROCESS OF ISSUING OR REVISING PERMITS (§ 45.2-1014)

A. The Director shall establish by regulation procedures for the notification of
and participation by the public and appropriate federal, state, and local
governmental authorities in the process for issuing or revising coal surface
mining permits, in accordance with &#xA7; 513 of the federal act.

B. Any person having an interest that is or might be adversely affected, or the
officer or head of any federal, state, or local governmental agency or
authority, has the right to file written objections to the proposed initial or
revised application for a permit for a coal surface mining operation with the
Director within 30 days after the last publication of the applicant&#8217;s
notice required by the regulation adopted pursuant to subsection A. If no
written objection is filed and an informal hearing is requested, the Director
shall then hold an informal hearing in the manner and location prescribed by
regulation, unless every party requesting the informal hearing stipulates
agreement prior to the requested informal hearing and withdraws such request
therefor.

HISTORY: 1979, c. 290, § 45.1-239; 1984, c. 590; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 387.