Tennessee Code 59-8-206 – Fees
Terms Used In Tennessee Code 59-8-206
- Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
- Commissioner: means the commissioner of environment and conservation or the commissioner's designees. See Tennessee Code 59-8-202
- Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
- Operation: means all of the premises, facilities, and equipment and the use thereof in the process of removing and exploring for minerals from a designated surface mine area. See Tennessee Code 59-8-202
- Overburden: means all earth and other materials which are removed to gain access to the mineral in the process of surface mining. See Tennessee Code 59-8-202
- Reclamation: means the process of backfilling, grading and shaping of the disturbed land in the affected area, constructing water control facilities, the taking of measures to control current or future air, water or soil pollution, and the planting of vegetation, and other measures. See Tennessee Code 59-8-202
- Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
The permit shall consist of a basic fee of two hundred fifty dollars ($250) for each year of the permit, plus an additional acreage fee of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for each acre or fraction thereof of the land affected by the operation, not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) for such acreage fee, but in subsequent years no acreage fee will be charged for any acre on which the acreage fee has already been paid in the preceding years. No permit fee shall be charged for land upon which overburden is deposited if, in the opinion of the commissioner, the deposition of such overburden amounts to reclamation of a previously mined area. The supplemental basic fee for an amendment of a permit shall be fifty dollars ($50.00), and to the extent the amendment entails an increase or decrease in the acreage covered by the permit, the total acreage fee paid for the year shall be correspondingly increased or decreased by the amount per acre or fraction thereof specified hereinabove.