LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


SB 1103, as amended, Aanestad. Surface mining: idle mines: low
gross exemption.
Existing law prohibits, with exceptions, a person from conducting
a surface mining operation unless, among other things, a reclamation
plan has been submitted to and approved by the lead agency for the
operation. Existing law requires an operator, within 90 days of a
surface mining operation becoming idle, as defined, to submit to the
lead agency for review and approval, an interim management plan.
Existing law requires the State Mining and Geology Board to impose an
annual reporting fee on each active and idle mine. Existing law
establishes an exemption to the fee for certain low grossing mines.
This bill would require provide that
a mining operation single operator of a
mining operation or a mining company with a single mining operation
that is declared becomes idle,
and that is operating under an interim management plan because of its
minimum annual production level, to shall
qualify , on a calendar year basis, for the low
gross exemption , if the mining operation is also in compliance
with applicable sections of the Public Resources Code, including the
Surface Mining and Reclamation Act of 1975, as well as with the
regulations adopted thereunder .

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