What does SBZ stand for?

Stream Buffer Zone (mining)

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Samples in periodicals archive:

Fixing the stream buffer zone rule remains a key component in the complex effort to end mountaintop removal coal mining," Lorelei Scarboro said in a statement.

Mining stream buffer rule could be ready by 2011

The Bush administration has made changes to the Stream Buffer Zone Rule, a 1983 regulation that prohibits coal-mining companies from conducting activity within 100 feet of an intermittent or perennial stream unless water quality, and quantity will not be adversely affected.

Blasting forward

The so-called Stream Buffer Zone Rule was put in place to protect communities, mostly across Appalachia, from flooding, polluted drinking water supplies and other ills associated with mountaintop removal coal mining.

Most oppose mountaintop removal