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14-34-7-6. Self-Bond or Corporate Guarantee; Percentage of Net Worth

Sec. 6. (a) For the director to accept an applicant’s self-bond, the total amount of the outstanding and proposed self-bonds of the applicant for surface coal mining and reclamation operations in the United States may not exceed twenty-five percent (25%) of the applicant’s tangible net worth in the United States. (b) For the director to […]

14-34-7-7. Indemnity Agreement

Sec. 7. If the director accepts an applicant’s self-bond, an indemnity agreement shall be submitted to the director. The indemnity agreement must meet the following requirements: (1) The indemnity agreement must provide in express terms that the persons or parties bound by the agreement are liable to the director for all costs incurred by the […]

14-34-7-7.1. Collateral and Indemnity Agreement to Support Self-Bond Application

Sec. 7.1. (a) If an application for self-bonding is rejected based on the information required by section 4 of this chapter or limitations set forth in section 4 of this chapter, the applicant may offer collateral (as defined in section 0.5 of this chapter) and an indemnity agreement to support the applicant’s self-bond application. An […]

14-34-7-8. Updated Information for Self-Bond or Corporate Guarantee

Sec. 8. The director shall require self-bonded applicants and corporate guarantors to submit: (1) an update of the information required under section 4(d)(7), 4(d)(8), and 4(f) of this chapter within ninety (90) days after the close of each fiscal year; and (2) information required under section 4(d)(8)(B) of this chapter on a quarterly basis not […]

14-34-7-9. Change in Financial Condition

Sec. 9. (a) If at any time during the period when a self-bond is posted, the financial conditions of the applicant or the corporate guarantor change so that the criteria of sections 4(d)(7), 4(f), and 6 of this chapter are no longer satisfied, the permittee shall do the following: (1) Notify the director immediately. (2) […]

14-34-7-10. Report of Public Accounting Consultant

Sec. 10. (a) An applicant shall submit, in addition to the financial information required under section 4 of this chapter, a report prepared by a qualified independent public accounting consultant selected from a list of public accounting consultants approved by the director. The director shall consider the information in the report when deciding whether to […]

14-34-7-11. Incremental Self-Bonds; Coverage of Deferred Grading Areas

Sec. 11. (a) The director may not accept an applicant’s self-bond under this chapter in an increment unless, when the self-bond is initially approved under this chapter, the total area of the increment is one hundred percent (100%) self-bonded. (b) When a self-bond is initially accepted from a permit applicant under this chapter, the self-bond […]

14-34-7-12. Alternate Forms of Self-Bonds; Monitoring of Reclamation

Sec. 12. (a) If a permittee who posted a self-bond under this chapter does not file an application for a Phase I grading release with the department before the second November 1 after the year in which the coal was removed from the site covered by the self-bond, the permittee shall replace the self-bond with […]

14-34-7-13. Effect of Invalidation of Ic 14-34-7-1

Sec. 13. For purposes of IC 1-1-1-8, if the amendments to IC 14-34-7-1, as amended by SEA 125-1995, are held invalid or otherwise unenforceable, the other amendments to IC 14-34-7 made by SEA 125-1995 are also void. As added by P.L.176-1995, SEC.23.