(1) A critical infrastructure materials operator may abandon some or all of a vested critical infrastructure materials operations use only as provided in this section.

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Terms Used In Utah Code 17-27a-1005

  • Critical infrastructure materials: means sand, gravel, or rock aggregate. See Utah Code 17-27a-1001
  • Critical infrastructure materials operations: means the extraction, excavation, processing, or reprocessing of critical infrastructure materials. See Utah Code 17-27a-1001
  • Critical infrastructure materials operator: means a natural person, corporation, association, partnership, receiver, trustee, executor, administrator, guardian, fiduciary, agent, or other organization or representative, either public or private, including a successor, assign, affiliate, subsidiary, and related parent company, that:
         (3)(a) owns, controls, or manages a critical infrastructure materials operations; and
         (3)(b) has produced commercial quantities of critical infrastructure materials from the critical infrastructure materials operations. See Utah Code 17-27a-1001
  • Vested critical infrastructure materials operations: means critical infrastructure materials operations operating in accordance with a legal nonconforming use or a permit issued by the county that existed or was conducted or otherwise engaged in before:
         (4)(a) a political subdivision prohibits, restricts, or otherwise limits the critical infrastructure materials operations; and
         (4)(b) January 1, 2019. See Utah Code 17-27a-1001
(2) To abandon some or all of a vested critical infrastructure materials operations, a critical infrastructure materials operator shall record a written declaration of abandonment with the recorder of the county in which the vested critical infrastructure materials operations being abandoned is located.
(3) The written declaration of abandonment under Subsection (2) shall specify the vested critical infrastructure materials operations or the portion of the vested critical infrastructure materials operations being abandoned.