Tex. Natural Resources Code § 134.056
This is the official text of Tex. Natural Resources Code § 134.056, part of Texas’s Natural Resources Code — governs land, minerals, and natural resource management.
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§ 134.056. SMALL MINE EXEMPTION.
Official statutory text
The commission shall designate a qualified public or private laboratory to prepare the determination of probable hydrologic consequences and statement of the results of test borings or core samplings required by Section 134.052 and shall pay the costs of preparing the determination and statement if:
(1) a surface coal mining operator makes a request in writing; and
(2) the commission finds that the probable total annual production at all locations of the surface coal mining operator will not exceed 300,000 tons.
(1) a surface coal mining operator makes a request in writing; and
(2) the commission finds that the probable total annual production at all locations of the surface coal mining operator will not exceed 300,000 tons.
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