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

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

             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.

 

 

 

             CLYDE BALLARD

Speaker of the

      House of Representatives

             MARTY BROWN

                            Secretary

 

 

Approved March 13, 1996 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

                                FILED          

 

 

           March 13, 1996 - 1:39 p.m.

 

 

 

              MIKE LOWRY

Governor of the State of Washington

                   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 Senators Morton and Drew

 

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.