The provisions of any conditional use permit
issued by the Board of Appeals notwithstanding, mineral resource extraction
operations, including new wash plants, shall be prohibited in those
portions of the critical area unsuitable for surface mining including:
A.
Reclamation. All mined areas shall be reclaimed within
one year after mining operations have been discontinued.
B.
Vegetated buffer. To the extent possible, a minimum
one-hundred-foot vegetated buffer, approved by the Board of Appeals,
will be maintained around existing mining operations.
C.
End use plan. An end use plan shall accompany any
application for a mineral extraction use in the critical area.