Arizona Laws 27-443. Application fee; aggregate community notice fund
A. The inspector shall adopt by rule an application fee for a community notice for a new aggregate mining operation and for a major modification of an approved community notice. The state mine inspector shall collect an application fee established by rule from each owner or operator who applies pursuant to section 27-442 for a community notice for a new aggregate mining operation or for a major modification of an approved community notice. The inspector shall deposit, pursuant to sections 35-146 and 35-147, the monies collected from applicants in the aggregate community notice fund.
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 27-443
- Aggregate: means cinders, crushed rock or stone, decomposed granite, gravel, pumice, pumicite and sand. See Arizona Laws 27-441
- Aggregate mining: means clearing, covering or moving land using mechanized earth-moving equipment on privately owned property for aggregate development and production purposes, including ancillary aggregate finished product activities. See Arizona Laws 27-441
- Inspector: means the state mine inspector and except in article 7 of this chapter his deputies. See Arizona Laws 27-301
- Major modification: means a change in an approved community notice that is one or more of the following:
(a) An increase of more than twenty acres from that stated in the currently approved community notice for the aggregate mining operation. See Arizona Laws 27-441
- Mine: means all lands containing excavations, underground passageways, shafts, tunnels and workings, structures, facilities, equipment, machines or other property including impoundments, retention dams, tailings and waste dumps, on the surface or underground, used in, to be used in or resulting from the work of extracting minerals or other materials, excluding hydrocarbons. See Arizona Laws 27-301
- Mining: means those activities conducted to develop or extract materials from a mine including on-site transportation, concentrating, milling, leaching, smelting or other processing of ores or other materials. See Arizona Laws 27-301
- operation: means property that is owned, operated or managed by the same person for mining aggregate and is located in an aggregate mining operations zoning district established pursuant to section 11-812. See Arizona Laws 27-441
- Operator: means a natural person, corporation, partnership association, agent, governmental entity or other public or private organization or representative owning, controlling or managing a mine. See Arizona Laws 27-301
B. The aggregate community notice fund is established. The state mine inspector shall administer the fund. Monies in the fund are continuously appropriated to the state mine inspector for the purpose of processing community notice applications and to conduct public meetings pursuant to this article. On notice from the inspector, the state treasurer shall invest and divest monies in the fund as provided by section 35-313, and monies earned from investment shall be credited to the fund. Monies in the fund are exempt from the provisions of section 35-190 relating to lapsing of appropriations.