Arkansas Code Title 19. Public Finance § 19-5-1029. Surface Coal Mining Operation Fund

(a) There is established on the books of the Treasurer of State, the Auditor of State, and the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State a fund to be known as the “Surface Coal Mining Operation Fund”.

(b) The fund shall consist of application and permit fees for surface coal mining, there to be used by the Division of Environmental Quality only for the administration and enforcement of the Arkansas Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation Act of 1979, § 15-58-101 et seq., and as the state's matching percentage share for any grants available to the state for the administration and enforcement of the state program as defined in § 15-58-104.