---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 C.F.R. § 816.180"
title: "30"
number: "816.180"
heading: "Utility installations."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/30/816.180"
---

# §816.180. Utility installations.


All surface coal mining operations shall be conducted in a manner which minimizes damage, destruction, or disruption of services provided by oil, gas, and water wells; oil, gas, and coal-slurry pipelines; railroads; electric and telephone lines; and water and sewage lines which pass over, under, or through the permit area, unless otherwise approved by the owner of those facilities and the regulatory authority.


## Notes

### Amendments

[48 FR 20401, May 5, 1983, as amended at 81 FR 93392, Dec. 20, 2016; 82 FR 54979, Nov. 17, 2017]

### Authority

Authority: 30 U.S.C. 1201 et seq.; and sec 115 of Pub. L. 98-146.

### Source

Source: 44 FR 15395, Mar. 13, 1979, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[48 FR 20401, May 5, 1983, as amended at 81 FR 93392, Dec. 20, 2016; 82 FR 54979, Nov. 17, 2017]