Legislative Session number- 81

Bill Name: SF3332

Providing for the management of aggregate resources; providing for the findings
of the aggregate resources task force; requiring the planning authorities to
consider the protection of identified and important aggregate resources in
comprehensive plans, specifying certain minimum consideration requirements;
establishing a transportation policy for promotion and protection purposes;
authorizing and providing for landowner registration of commercially viable
aggregate deposits with the county recorder or registrar of titles under certain
conditions; requiring the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) to develop
best management practices and minimum reclamation standards for aggregate
mining, specifying certain comments and recommendations solicitation
requirements, providing for voluntary compliance; requiring the commissioner to
prepare a technical assistance guide for distribution to local permitting
authorities; requiring and providing for certain existing and proposed aggregate
mining operations to file mine plans with the local permitting authority,
requiring the commissioner to provide the form and to conduct technical reviews
of the plans, requiring reports of findings to local permitting authorities;
encouraging counties, townships and municipalities to consider adopting certain
aggregate mining permit structures; providing for the conservation of native
prairie under certain conditions; expanding the definition of county for
aggregate material production tax purposes and providing for county board
discretion in the amount of tax imposed; modifying the distribution of tax
proceeds; requiring the director of the office of environmental assistance in
consultation with the commissioners of natural resources, the pollution control
agency (PCA) and transportation (DOT) and the private sector to report to the
legislature by a certain date with specific recommendations for legislation
providing incentives to recycle construction waste for aggregate, preventing
construction waste materials used as aggregate from entering demolition
landfills and promoting or requiring the use of industrial waste products and
byproducts; requiring the commissioner of natural resources to work with
interested parties to educate the public. local government and others
responsible for issuing permits for aggregate mining to minimize the detrimental
consequences of ignoring planning and conservation of aggregate resources;
appropriating money to the commissioner of natural resources to complete the
mapping program for the identification and classification of potential publicly
or privately owned aggregate land, specifying certain priority requirements (ra)