CERTIFICATION
OF ENROLLMENT
ENGROSSED
SENATE BILL 6635
Chapter
70, Laws of 1996
54th
Legislature
1996
Regular Session
MINES--APPLICATION
FEES FOR THOSE USED PRIMARILY FOR
PUBLIC
WORKS IN SMALLER COUNTIES
EFFECTIVE
DATE: 6/6/96
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Passed by the Senate February 13, 1996
YEAS 48 NAYS 0
 JOEL PRITCHARD
President
of the Senate
Passed by
the House February 28, 1996
YEAS 96 NAYS 0
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CERTIFICATE
I, Marty
Brown, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify
that the attached is ENGROSSED SENATE BILL 6635 as passed by the
Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.
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CLYDE
BALLARD
Speaker
of the
House
of Representatives
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 MARTY
BROWN
Secretary
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Approved
March 13, 1996 Place Style On Codes above, and
Style Off Codes below.
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FILED
March
13, 1996 - 1:39 p.m.
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MIKE
LOWRY
Governor
of the State of Washington
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Secretary
of State
State
of Washington
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ENGROSSED
SENATE BILL 6635
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Passed Legislature -
1996 Regular Session
State of Washington 54th
Legislature 1996 Regular Session
By
Read first time 01/22/96.
Referred to Committee on Natural Resources.
Concerning
application permits for small public works projects mines.
AN ACT Relating to
application fees for mines used primarily for public works projects in counties
with 1993 populations of less than twenty thousand; and amending RCW 78.44.085.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE
LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 78.44.085 and 1993 c
518 s 14 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) An applicant for a
public or private reclamation permit shall pay an application fee to the
department before being granted a surface mining permit. The amount of the
application fee shall be six hundred fifty dollars.
(2) After June 30,
1993, each public or private permit holder shall pay an annual permit fee of
six hundred fifty dollars. The annual permit fee shall be payable to the
department on the first anniversary of the permit date and each year
thereafter. Annual fees paid by a county for ((small)) mines used
exclusively for public works projects ((shall be paid on those small mines
from which the county elects to extract minerals in the next calendar year and))
and having less than seven acres of disturbed area per mine shall not
exceed one thousand dollars. Annual fees are waived for all mines used
primarily for public works projects if the mines are owned and primarily
operated by counties with 1993 populations of less than twenty thousand
persons.
(3) After July 1, 1995,
the department may modify annual permit fees by rule if:
(a) The total annual
permit fees are reasonably related to the approximate costs of administering
the department's surface mining regulatory program;
(b) The annual fee does
not exceed five thousand dollars; and
(c) The mines are small
mines in remote areas that are used primarily for public service, then lower
annual permit fees may be established.
(4) Appeals from any
determination of the department shall not stay the requirement to pay any
annual permit fee. Failure to pay the annual fee may constitute grounds for an
order to suspend surface mining or cancellation of the reclamation permit as
provided in this chapter.
(5) All fees collected
by the department shall be deposited into the surface mining reclamation
account.
(6) If the department
delegates enforcement responsibilities to a county, city, or town, the
department may allocate funds collected under this section to ((such)) the
county, city, or town.
Passed
the Senate February 13, 1996.
Passed
the House February 28, 1996.
Approved by the Governor March 13, 1996.
Filed in
Office of Secretary of State March 13, 1996.