SCS/SB 1004 - This act modifies provisions relating to mining. The act extends the sunset date on certain geologic resources fees from December 31, 2025, to December 31, 2030.
Additionally, under current law, the Industrial Minerals Advisory Council has three members representing limestone quarry operators and one member each representing the clay mining, sandstone mining, sand and gravel mining, barite mining, and granite mining industries.
Under this act, there shall be eight representatives of the following industries, with no more than four appointees from any one industry: limestone quarry operators, granite mining, clay mining, sandstone mining, barite mining, other nonmetallic surface mining, or sand and gravel mining.
This act is identical to provisions in HCS/SB 984 (2022).
JAMIE ANDREWS