Definitions. As used in this section, the following terms shall have
the meaning indicated:
APPLICANT
That person making application for a permit and who is the
owner or authorized by the owner.
APPURTENANT ACTIVITIES
All on-site operations involved in the treatment, processing
or further fabrication of soil, sand, gravel or natural deposits,
including washing, sedimentation ponds, grading, sorting, grinding,
concrete batching plants, asphalt mixing plants and aggregate dryers.
BASIN
An excavated area, including ponds, lagoons, and bunker silos,
designed to hold surface water.
EXCAVATION
A cavity, hole, mine, pit or quarry in land formed by digging,
for the purpose of extracting stone, gravel, sand, shale or other
natural minerals or the topsoil therefrom.
MINE
Any pit or underground workings from which any mineral is
produced.
MINERAL
Aggregate, clay, gravel, sand, shale, stone or any other
solid material of commercial value found in or on the earth.
OPERATOR
Any owner, lessee, or other person who operates, controls
or supervises the operation.
OWNER
That person having title to the tract of land and who is
responsible for fulfilling the requirements for a restoration plan
and all rules and regulations promulgated hereunder.
PERSON
Any individual, public or private corporation, political
subdivision, government agency, partnership, association, trust, estate
or any other legal entity.
RESTORATION
The reparation to an environmentally acceptable natural state
of an area which has undergone physical change due to excavation and
related activities.
TOPSOIL
Surface earth, including the organic layer in which most
plants have their roots.