Fran Pavley
- Democratic
Author
(1) Existing law establishes the Office of Mine Reclamation within the Department of Conservation. Existing law requires the State Mining and Geology Board to impose, by regulation, an annual reporting fee on the operators of all active and idle mining operations. Existing law requires the maximum amount of the annual fee imposed on each mining operation to not exceed $4,000. Existing law limits the maximum amount of the total revenue generated from the reporting fee to no more than $3,500,000, as specified. This bill would instead establish the Division of Mine Reclamation within the department under the direction of the Supervisor of Mine Reclamation. The bill also would raise the maximum amount of the annual reporting fee to $10,000 per mining operation, except as specified. The bill would raise the maximum amount of the total revenue generated from the reporting fee to $8,000,000, as specified. (2) The Surface Mining and Reclamation Act of 1975 prohibits a person, with exceptions, from conducting surface mining operations unless, among other things, a permit is obtained from, a specified reclamation plan is submitted to and approved by, and financial assurances for reclamation have been approved by the lead agency for the operation of the surface mining operation. This bill would require a lead agency that is the owner or operator of a borrow pit surface mining operation that is used solely by that lead agency to include in the reclamation plan maintenance measures that become effective when the borrow pit surface mining operation is idle or to obtain an approved interim management plan, as specified. The bill would authorize a lead agency to conduct an inspection once every 2 calendar years during a period when the borrow pit surface mining operation that is used solely by that lead agency is idle. This bill would allow an operator, after the board has adopted a specified regulation, to include in a financial assurance mechanism a corporate financial test, as described. (3) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. (4) This bill would make its operation contingent on the enactment of Assembly Bill 1142 of the 2015–16 Regular Session.
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 8, Statutes of 2016.
Approved by the Governor.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 28. Noes 8. Page 3350.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 54. Noes 20. Page 4039.) Ordered to the Senate.
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
Ordered to third reading.
Read third time and amended.
Ordered to third reading.
From inactive file.
Notice of intention to remove from inactive file given by Assembly Member Calderon.
Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Holden.
Read third time and amended.
Ordered to third reading.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (August 27).
August 19 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (July 13).
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 25. Noes 13. Page 1121.) Ordered to the Assembly.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1101.) (May 26).
Set for hearing May 26.
May 18 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Set for hearing May 18.
April 13 hearing postponed by committee.
Set for hearing April 13.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2. Page 406.) (March 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W.
Set for hearing March 24.
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 14.
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
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| SB209 | HTML |
| 02/11/15 - Introduced | |
| 03/19/15 - Amended Senate | |
| 05/12/15 - Amended Senate | |
| 07/07/15 - Amended Assembly | |
| 07/16/15 - Amended Assembly | |
| 08/17/15 - Amended Assembly | |
| 09/02/15 - Amended Assembly | |
| 09/04/15 - Amended Assembly | |
| 03/17/16 - Amended Assembly | |
| 04/04/16 - Enrolled | |
| 04/18/16 - Chaptered |
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