Environmental Protection Division - Surface Mined Land Use Program - Mined Land Use Plan File

Series

Identifier: 088-05-010

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This series contains: (1) permits, (2) correspondence, (3) maps, (4) slides, (5) applications for licenses, (6) trip, investigation, inspection, laboratory and reclamation reports, (7) memorandums, (8) bonding data, (9) amendments, (10) legal notices, (11) blueprints, (12) location data sheets, (13) newspaper clippings and other records documenting every mining company's plan to reclaim lands affected by surface mining operations. Consequently, this series documents the administration of the Georgia Surface Mining Act of 1968 which empowered the Surface Mined Land Reclamation Program to enforce its provisions.

Dates

Created: 1968-2008

Creator

Environmental Protection Division (Organization)

Conditions Governing Access

Unrestricted

Extent

103.00 Cubic Feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Arrangement Note

Each file, usually covering reclamation efforts spanning several years and averaging an inch in thickness, is grouped chronologically by time span of several years and then filed numerically by assigned permit number. The numbers, however, are not consecutive.

Related Materials

For records of the Surface Mined Land Use Program pre-dating the Georgia government reorganization of 1972, see RGSGS 50-5, Department of Mines, Mining and Geology, Georgia Surface MLUP (Mined Land Use Plan) [Board].

Record Groups

- 088. Environmental Protection Division
- 088/05. Surface Mined Land Use Program

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title: Environmental Protection Division - Surface Mined Land Use Program - Mined Land Use Plan File
Author: Georgia Archives
Description rules: Local
Language of description: English
Script of description: Latin