PERMFILE48425

• Permit No: M1979216
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 9/15/1995
• Doc Name: GOVERNMENTAL SUBDIVISION PAYMENT OF APPLICATION AND ANNUAL FEES
• From: DMG
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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STATE OF COLORADO
DIVISION OF MINERALS AND GEOLOGY
Depanmem of Nawral Resources
131 l Sherman 51., Room 215
Oenver, Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]
FA%: (JO3)872~106
September 15, 1995
RE: GOVERNMENTAL SDBDIVISION PAYMENT
OF APPLIGTION AND ANNDAL FEES
Dear County Coamnissioners:
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Division Director
Colorado Counties, Incorporated asked the Attorney General's Office (AGO) to provide
an informal opinion as to whether the Office and Board were correct in requiring
subdivisions of state government to pay application and annual fees. Enclosed is
the informal opinion from the AGO.
In sucLmiary, the informal opinion states that subdivisions of state government
(counties) are not exempt from paying application or annual fees. The only fee
exemption for which a subdivision of state government qualifies is the Special
Operation 111 permit application fee of $625.
Effective July 1, 1995, all existing sand and gravel operations fall under the new
Construction Materials statute, SB 156. The statute requires the Office to issue
a reason to believe letter for non-payment of annual fees. Also, the Mined Land
Reclamation Board, at its August 1995 Meeting, instructed the Office to proceed with
permit revocation and/or performance warranty forfeiture against any construction
material operator that is 60 days past due in paying an annual fee.
According to the AGO's opinion, subdivisions of state government are required to pay
annual fees. Also, your operation(s) falls under the provisions of SB 156.
Therefore, you have been issued a reason to believe letter or letters for the
October 1995 Board Meeting for your permitted operation(s) with past due annual
fee (s) .
Please review the enclosed Reason to Believe Letter(s). If we have issued a Reason
to Believe Letter for a site and you believe the annual fees are current, please let
us know as soon as possible. we would like to resolve the matter prior to the
October Board Meeting.
We encourage you to pay your past due annual fees by October 13, 1995. If payment
is made by that date, we will withdraw the pending Board action.
Sincerely,
H. Bruce Humphries (~~~( ~
Minerals grogram Supervisor~t `
cc: Michael Long
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