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[CITE: 30USC1307]

 
                   TITLE 30--MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
 
           CHAPTER 25--SURFACE MINING CONTROL AND RECLAMATION
 
       SUBCHAPTER VII--ADMINISTRATIVE AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 1307. Water rights and replacement

    (a) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as affecting in any 
way the right of any person to enforce or protect, under applicable law, 
his interest in water resources affected by a surface coal mining 
operation.
    (b) The operator of a surface coal mine shall replace the water 
supply of an owner of interest in real property who obtains all or part 
of his supply of water for domestic, agricultural, industrial, or other 
legitimate use from an underground or surface source where such supply 
has been affected by contamination, diminution, or interruption 
proximately resulting from such surface coal mine operation.

(Pub. L. 95-87, title VII, Sec. 717, Aug. 3, 1977, 91 Stat. 526.)
