CHAPTER 295
NONMETALLIC MINING RECLAMATION; OIL AND GAS; FERROUS METALLIC MINING
SUBCHAPTER I
NONMETALLIC MINING RECLAMATION
295.12 Nonmetallic mining reclamation rules.
295.13 Mandatory enactment and administration of ordinance by counties.
295.14 Authority to enact and administer ordinance.
295.16 Applicability of nonmetallic mining reclamation requirements.
295.18 Department review.
295.19 Enforcement; remedies; penalties.
295.20 Preservation of marketable nonmetallic mineral deposits.
SUBCHAPTER II
OIL AND GAS
295.31 Definitions; oil and gas.
295.33 Oil and gas exploration and production.
295.35 Departmental powers and duties; oil and gas.
295.37 Penalties; oil and gas.
SUBCHAPTER III
FERROUS METALLIC MINING
295.40 Legislative findings.
295.43 Responsibilities related to mining.
295.443 Local impact committee; local agreement.
295.45 Bulk sampling plan.
295.46 Preapplication description.
295.465 Preapplication notification.
295.47 Application for mining permit.
295.51 Mining waste site location criteria; feasibility study, and plan of operation.
295.53 Environmental impact statement.
295.57 Application procedure.
295.58 Mining; department grant or denial of permit.
295.59 Bonds and other security.
295.60 Impacts to wetlands.
295.605 Impacts to navigable waters.
295.607 Shoreland and floodplain zoning.
295.61 Withdrawals of surface waters and groundwater.
295.62 Mining waste site construction and completion reports.
295.63 Modifications; reporting.
295.635 Required mining waste site inspections, record keeping, reporting, and responses.
295.64 Mining site monitoring; general.
295.643 Mining waste site monitoring.
295.645 Groundwater quality, monitoring, and response.
295.66 Cessation of mining or reclamation.
295.67 Determination of abandonment of mining.
295.68 Certificates of completion and release of security.
295.69 Termination of proof of financial responsibility for long-term care of mining waste site.
295.695 Inspections by the department.
295.75 Effect of other laws.
295.78 Mining and reclamation; orders.
295.79 Enforcement; penalties.
NONMETALLIC MINING RECLAMATION
Subch. I of ch. 295 Cross-reference
Cross-reference: See also ch.
NR 135, Wis. adm. code.
295.11
295.11
Definitions. In this subchapter:
295.11(1)
(1) “Department" means the department of natural resources.
295.11(2)
(2) “Environmental pollution" means the contaminating or rendering unclean or impure the air, land or waters of the state, or making the same injurious to public health, harmful for commercial or recreational use, or deleterious to fish, bird, animal or plant life.
295.11(3)
(3) “Nonmetallic mining" means all of the following:
295.11(3)(a)
(a) Operations or activities for the extraction from the earth for sale or use by the operator of mineral aggregates or nonmetallic minerals such as stone, sand, gravel, asbestos, beryl, clay, feldspar, peat, talc and topsoil, including such operations or activities as excavation, grading and dredging.
295.11(3)(b)
(b) On-site processes that are related to the extraction of mineral aggregates or nonmetallic minerals, such as stockpiling of materials, blending mineral aggregates or nonmetallic minerals with other mineral aggregates or nonmetallic minerals, crushing, screening, scalping and dewatering.
295.11(4)
(4) “Nonmetallic mining reclamation" means the rehabilitation of a nonmetallic mining site to achieve a land use specified in an approved nonmetallic mining reclamation plan, including removal or reuse of nonmetallic mining refuse, grading of the nonmetallic mining site, removal, storage and replacement of topsoil, stabilization of soil conditions, reestablishment of vegetative cover, control of surface water and groundwater, prevention of environmental pollution and, if practical, restoration of plant, fish and wildlife habitat.
295.11(5)
(5) “Nonmetallic mining refuse" means waste soil, rock, mineral and other natural material resulting from nonmetallic mining. This term does not include marketable by-products resulting directly from or displaced by the nonmetallic mining.
295.11(6)(a)(a) “Nonmetallic mining site" means all of the following, except as provided in par.
(b):
