Mines And Mining
Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Surface mining; pollutant discharge permit. [SB-217]
Pollutant discharge permit for surface mining. Eliminates the requirements that the Director of the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy submit a copy of the application for a discharge permit to the State Water Control Board for its review and provide the Board with a written notice of every action taken in consideration of the permit application. The bill also removes the authority of the State Water Control Board to object to the issuance of a discharge permit.
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Grand larceny & property injury; health & safety made an element of crimes where coal mine damaged. [SB-208]
Grand larceny and property injury; health and safety made an element of crimes where coal mine damaged; trespass; penalty.Defines certain offenses against coal mine property as grand larceny, injury to property, or trespass. The bill provides that larceny from a coal mine of any thing valued at $100 or more whose removal affects the health or safety of another constitutes grand larceny. The existing penalty for grand larceny is imprisonment for up to 20 years, or, in the discretion of the jury or the court, confinement in jail for up to one year
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
State-owned uplands; hydraulic fracturing. [HB-915]
Hydraulic fracturing on state-owned uplands. Requires that any permit or lease for oil or gas exploration or extraction on state-owned uplands allow the use of hydraulic fracturing.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Coal-mined areas; reclamation. [HB-710]
Reclamation of coal-mined areas. Amends the Virginia Coal Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1979 by removing the ability of certain applicants to provide a bond without separate surety. The bill also raises the target balance of the Coal Surface Mining Reclamation Fund (the Fund) from $1.75 million to $20 million, alters the method of deducting certain expenditures from the Fund, and makes technical amendments. The provisions of the bill affecting § 45.1-270.4 have an expiration date of July 1, 2017.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Coalbed methane gas; release of funds held in escrow or suspense. [HB-461]
Coalbed methane gas; release of funds held in escrow or suspense. Requires the operator of certain previously pooled coalbed methane gas wells to request, by the beginning of 2015, the release of any funds held in escrow or suspense to the person who possesses a claim through a gas title. A coal claimant may halt such a release of funds by providing evidence that the coal and gas claimants have reached an agreement or that a proceeding against the gas claimant is pending. For a well that is pooled after July 1, 2014, the bill requires the operator
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Multistate Coal Compact; established. [HB-140]
Multistate Coal Compact. Establishes a multistate coal compact that allows member states that mine, process, market, or sell coal or coal-related products to facilitate best industry practices and to more effectively coordinate the mining, processing, marketing, and sales of coal and coal-related products.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Virginia Coal and Energy Alliance; appointment of member for certain Authority and Board. [HB-1167]
Virginia Coal and Energy Alliance. Changes the name of the Virginia Coal Association to the Virginia Coal and Energy Alliance.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Gas severance tax; extends sunset provision to December 31, 2015. [HB-1028]
Gas severance tax. Extends the sunset date from December 31, 2014, to December 31, 2015, for the local gas severance tax that is dedicated to (i) the Gas Road Improvement Fund, (ii) the Virginia Coalfield Economic Development Fund, and (iii) water, sewer, and gas lines.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Biofuels Production Incentive Grant Program; eligibility to receive grants. [HB-1025]
Biofuels Production Incentive Grant Program. Changes the amount of the grant for biofuels produced in the Commonwealth from $0.10 for each gallon produced and subsequently sold to (i) $0.04 for each gallon sold in calendar year 2014, (ii) $0.03 for each gallon sold in calendar year 2015, and (iii) $0.025 for each gallon sold in calendar year 2016 and during the period January 1, 2017, through June 30, 2017. Each producer applying for a grant for 2015 production of biofuels is required to make a good faith effort to produce such biofuels using feedstock
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Coal mine safety; reciprocal agreements with other states. [HB-1014]
Coal mine safety; reciprocal agreements with other states. Empowers the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy to enter into reciprocal agreements with responsible officers of other states and assigns to the Chief of the Division of Mines the duty of supervising the execution and enforcement of such reciprocal agreements where they implicate any part of the Coal Mine Safety Act.
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Utah 2013 Regular Session
Interstate Mining Compact [SB-235]
Interstate Mining Compact
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Utah 2013 Regular Session
Division of Oil, Gas, and Mining Amendments [SB-185]
Division of Oil, Gas, and Mining Amendments
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Environmental regulation; need for reducing burden of EPA regulations. [SJR-338]
Environmental regulation; need for reducing burden of EPA regulations. Recognizes the need for regulatory agencies to use administrative discretion to reduce the burden placed upon the coal and electricity-generation industries by the regulations recently adopted by the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Uranium; 3% state severance tax on receipts of any severed from earth in State, proceeds. [SB-919]
State severance tax; uranium. Establishes a three percent state severance tax on the gross receipts of any uranium severed from the earth in the Commonwealth. One-half of the proceeds of the tax shall be deposited in the general fund of the Commonwealth. The other half of the proceeds shall be deposited into an Economic Development and Environmental Trust Fund established for each locality from which uranium is mined. Each locality's fund would be administered by a board appointed by the governing body of the locality.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Coal severance taxes, local; establishes gross income for certain purposes. Emergency. [SB-918]
Local coal severance taxes. Establishes gross receipts for purposes of the local coal severance tax by providing that the only deduction allowed from gross receipts is for non-local transportation and processing costs of coal. The bill establishes a one percent tax on the gross receipts from coal severed from the earth by coal producers, except that the gross receipts tax on coal from mines that sell less than 10,000 tons of coal per month is three-quarters of one percent. The bill also moves the local coal severance taxes out of Chapter 37 of Title
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Uranium; establishes process for DMME to issue permits for mining of uranium ore, report. [SB-1353]
Uranium mining; penalties. Establishes a process for the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy (DMME) to issue permits for the mining of uranium ore. DMME, in consultation with the Department of Environmental Quality, Department of Health, State Corporation Commission, Department of Conservation and Recreation, Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, Department of Historic Resources, and Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, is required to adopt regulations governing uranium mining. DMME shall not accept an application for a uranium
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Gas severance taxes, local; validation of coal & gas severance tax & road improvement tax ordinance. [SB-1111]
Local gas severance taxes. Makes technical amendments that provide a period of time in which natural gas companies may appeal a local gas severance tax assessment made on or after January 1, 2014, for license years 2014, 2013, 2012, or 2011. In 2012, the General Assembly passed legislation delaying the time period in which natural gas companies could appeal gas severance tax assessments and suspending the collection of gas severance tax assessments. The bill creates a time period in which natural gas companies may appeal such assessments.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Coal; repeals an obsolete chapter that regulates surface mining. [SB-1014]
Surface mining of coal. Repeals an obsolete chapter in Title 45.1 that regulates the surface mining of coal. The provisions of this chapter have been superseded by the Virginia Coal Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (§ 45.1-226 et seq.).
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Uranium; establishes process for DMME to issue permits for mining of uranium ore, report. [HB-2330]
Uranium mining; penalties. Establishes a process for the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy (DMME) to issue permits for the mining of uranium ore. DMME, in consultation with the Department of Environmental Quality, Department of Health, State Corporation Commission, Department of Conservation and Recreation, Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, Department of Historic Resources, and Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, is required to adopt regulations governing uranium mining. DMME shall not accept an application for a uranium
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Coal trucks; weight enforcement. [HB-2227]
Weight enforcement for coal trucks. Provides that weight enforcement cannot require a coal truck, the load on which does not rise above the top of the truck's bed (or can be shifted so it does not rise above the top of the truck's bed) to be actually weighed.