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SENATE BILL 5319
State of Washington
69th Legislature
2025 Regular Session
By Senators Shewmake, Chapman, and Nobles; by request of Department of Natural Resources
Read first time 01/17/25. Referred to Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources.
AN ACT Relating to establishing surface mine reclamation permit fees; and amending RCW 78.44.085 .
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 78.44.085 and 2017 3rd sp.s. c 27 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) An applicant (( for an expansion of a permitted surface mine, a new reclamation permit under RCW 78.44.081 , or for combining existing public or private reclamation permits, shall pay a nonrefundable application fee to the department before being granted the requested permit or permit expansion )) : (a) For a revision of an existing reclamation permit or reclamation plan; (b) for an expansion of a permitted surface mine; (c) for a new reclamation permit under RCW 78.44.081 ; or (d) seeking to combine existing public or private surface mine reclamation permits, shall pay a nonrefundable application fee to the department before the department will make a decision on the application . The amount of the application fee shall be (( four thousand five hundred dollars.