The Energy Committee met briefly yesterday to discuss House Bill 635. This bill relates generally to coal mining activities.
This bill is broken down into three essential parts: Economic Development, Environmental, Underground Coal Mining, and Crimes and Their Punishment. There was also a committee amendment made to the bill which makes certain technical changes to the provisions dealing with the Mine Trespass Act.
It specifically notes that these provisions also apply to inactive workings, as well as active or abandoned workings, it clarifies the language relating to subsequent convictions to note these must be for the same offense, and removes ambiguity in the section relating to underground mine trespass to note that only inactive or abandoned workings must be sealed or posted for a trespass conviction to occur.
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