Mines And Mining
Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Coal; repeals an obsolete chapter that regulates surface mining. [HB-2111]
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 The provisions of this chapter have been superseded by the Virginia Coal Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (§ 45.1-226 et seq.).
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Coal and Gas Road Improvement Fund; tax revenue used to construct, etc., natural gas service lines. [HB-2110]
Coal and Gas Road Improvement Fund; construction of natural gas service lines. Allows a locality in the Virginia Coalfield Economic Development Authority to apply a portion of its Coal and Gas Road Improvement Fund tax revenue collected from the severance tax imposed upon the severance of natural gas to the construction of natural gas service lines. Under current law, the locality is permitted to apply a portion of the revenue to the construction or enhancement of water or sewer systems or lines. The amendments add natural gas systems or lines as
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Coal severance taxes, local; establishes gross income for certain purposes. Emergency. [HB-2100]
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
Virginia port volume; increase tax credit to certain entities, clarifies definitions. [HB-1824]
Virginia port volume increase tax credit. Extends the tax credit beginning in 2013 to growers or producers of (i) wheat, grains, fruits, nuts, crops; (ii) tobacco, nursery, or floral products; (iii) forestry products excluding raw wood fiber or wood fiber processed or manufactured for use as fuel for the generation of electricity; or (iv) seafood, meat, dairy, or poultry products. Under current law, manufacturers and distributors of manufactured goods that ship at least 75 net tons of noncontainerized cargo or 10 loaded 20-foot equivalent units
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Uranium; establishes 3% state severance tax on receipts of any severed from earth in State. [HB-1804]
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 distributed to the locality from which the uranium was severed.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Gas severance taxes, local; validation of coal & gas severance tax & road improvement tax ordinance. [HB-1771]
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 miners; designating April 13 of each year as day of recognition. [HB-1464]
State holidays and other special days; April 13 to honor coal miners in Virginia. Designates the thirteenth day of April of each year as a day of recognition for coal miners in Virginia to acknowledge the contributions of and pay tribute to the hardworking women and men who work, and sometimes die, in the coal mines of the Commonwealth. April 13, 1750, is the date that Dr. Thomas Walker is credited with discovering and using coal in what was Virginia and now is Kentucky.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
License tax, local; ordinances for severance oil, coal, or gas from earth, report. [SB-658]
Local license tax ordinances for the severance of minerals. Requires certain localities that imposed local severance taxes for the 2008, 2009, 2010, or 2011 license year to amend their local ordinances to adopt or include certain local license tax uniform ordinance provisions into the local ordinance with an effective date retroactive to the 2008 license year. Each such locality would be required to allow taxpayers upon whom local severance taxes were imposed to avail themselves of the appeal procedures included as part of the local license tax
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Coalfield employment enhancement tax credit; eliminates sunset date. [SB-616]
Coalfield employment enhancement tax credit. Eliminates the sunset on the coalfield employment enhancement tax credit. Currently the credit is set to expire on January 1, 2015.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Coalfield employment enhancement tax credit; extends sunset date. [SB-609]
Coalfield employment enhancement tax credit; sunset date. Extends from January 1, 2015, to January 1, 2107, the sunset date for the coalfield employment enhancement tax credit.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Coal mine safety; operator of coal mine to submit map and revisions that show directional changes. [SB-330]
Coal mine safety. Requires the operator of a coal mine to submit (i) a map of the mine to the Chief of the Division of Mines of the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy before producing coal and (ii) any revisions that show directional changes whenever mining projections deviate more than 600 feet from the approved mine plan. The bill also allows instructors that are certified by the Board of Coal Mining Examiners to determine the fitness of a miner to detect explosive gas before the miner is put in charge of cutting, loading, drilling, continuous
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Gas or oil wells; records of pooled operations income and costs. [SB-153]
Records of pooled operations. Requires each unit operator to maintain certain records and to provide them to participating and nonparticipating operators of gas or oil wells.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Virginia Gas and Oil Act; penalties for operating without permit, disregarding orders, etc. [SB-152]
Virginia Gas and Oil Act violations; penalties. Provides civil and criminal penalties for operating without a permit, disregarding orders, or making false statements.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Mineral rights; presumption of ownereship. [SB-150]
Presumption of ownership of mineral rights. Adds the rights to transport coal, gas, and oil to those rights presumed to be held by the owner of the shell. Current law provides only the right to transport minerals.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Coalbed methane drilling; pooling orders. [SB-145]
Pooling orders and coalbed methane drilling; application to activities since 1990. Requires a well operator to obtain any required pooling order before applying for a well permit. Where an operator begins ground disturbing activity for a well without a required pooling order, any unleased mineral owners in the unit will be deemed fully paid participants in the unit. The bill applies to any ground disturbing activity for a well undertaken since January 1, 1990. The bill has an effective date of January 1, 2013.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Virginia Gas and Oil Act; production of plats or maps. [SB-144]
Plats or maps; where map acreage differs from amount listed in county records. Requires a surveyor or engineer to certify that the acreages shown on a map or plat produced under the Virginia Oil and Gas Act since January 1, 1990, match the acreages listed in the county records. Where a mapped acreage differs from that listed in the county records, the operator is required to commission a survey and record a deed of correction in order to reconcile the acreages. Submitting a plat in violation of the accuracy requirement will cause all damaged mineral
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Mining permit; use of mine voids. [SB-143]
Mining permit, use of mine voids. Requires an application for a mining permit to identify the owner of the underground space to be used.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Coal severance tax; codifies manner in which it is calculated. [HB-712]
Coal severance tax. Codifies the manner in which the coal severance tax is calculated and is declarative of existing local practice.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Coal mining; right to use shell, void opened underground, etc., created by removal of coal. [HB-710]
Use of mine voids. Establishes the presumption that, unless specified by contract, the owner of the coal mineral estate retains the rights to extract any coal remaining in place and to use an underground void for any activity related to the removal of coal from the subject property or other properties. No injunction shall be allowed to prevent such uses where the void is governed by a mine permit. Where the void is located within a sealed mine for which a mining permit no longer exists, the owner of the coal mineral estate must pay reasonable compensation
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Coal mine safety; operator of coal mine to submit map and revisions that show directional changes. [HB-684]
Coal mine safety. Requires the operator of a coal mine to submit (i) a map of the mine to the Chief of the Division of Mines of the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy before producing coal and (ii) any revisions that show directional changes whenever mining projections deviate more than 600 feet from the approved mine plan. The bill also allows instructors that are certified by the Board of Coal Mining Examiners to determine the fitness of a miner to detect explosive gas before the miner is put in charge of cutting, loading, drilling, continuous
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