SECTION 460:20-9-6. Land exempt from designation as unsuitable for surface coal mining operations  


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  •   The requirement of this Subchapter do not apply to:
    (1)   bands on which surface coal mining operations were being conducted on the date of enactment of the Federal Act;
    (2)   Lands covered by a permit issued under the Act; or
    (3)   bands where substantial legal and financial commitments in surface coal mining operations were in existence prior to January 4, 1977.