Citizens Organized Against Longwalling v. Division of Reclamation

Appellant Citizens Organized Against Longwalling, a group of landowners affected by in-tervenor Southern Ohio Coal Company’s mining activities, brings this appeal pursuant to R.C. 1513.14 from a November 8, 1985 Ohio Reclamation Board of Review decision which affirmed a June 11, 1984 decision of ap-pellee Chief of the Division of Reclamation, Ohio Department of Natural Resources. The chief’s decision approved intervenor’s permit application No. 0262 to mine its Meigs Mine No. 2 in Meigs and Vinton Counties, Ohio, using the longwall coal mining method.

The board viewed the land and structures…