Sec. 205-115. Revegetation of post-mining land.
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Sec. 205-115. Revegetation of post-mining land. The Department has the power: to develop data used in the Agricultural Lands Productivity Formula that is used in determining the success of revegetation of post-mining land for row-crop agricultural purposes in accordance with the Surface Coal Mining Land Conservation and Reclamation Act; to cooperate with the Department of Natural Resources in determining the success of the cropland revegetation under the Surface Coal Mining Land Conservation and Reclamation Act; and to publish annually a Soil Master and County Cropped Acreage Manual, which is data derived from and used in the formula.
The manual is exempt from the rule-making requirements of the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act.