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WI Stat § 293.35 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 293 - Nonferrous metallic mining.|293.35 - Application for prospecting permit.

293.35  Application for prospecting permit. (1) No person may engage in prospecting without securing a prospecting permit issued under s. 293.45. Application for prospecting permits shall be made in writing to the department upon forms prepared and furnished by the department. An application must be made, and a prospecting permit obtained for each separate prospecting site. Applications shall be submitted in reproducible form in such multiples as required by rules of the department. As a part of each application for a prospecting permit, the applicant shall furnish a description of the proposed prospecting site, the number of acres in the proposed prospecting site, a prospecting plan, a reclamation plan meeting the requirements of subs. (2) and (3) and a timetable for reclamation, information relating to whether the area may be unsuitable for prospecting or surface mining, unless the applicant conclusively certifies that he or she will not subsequently make application for a permit to conduct surface mining at the site and such other relevant information as the department may require, including information as to whether the applicant, its parent corporation, any of its principal shareholders or members, or any of the applicant's subsidiaries or affiliates in which the applicant owns more than a 40 percent interest, has forfeited any mining bonds in other states within the last 20 years, and the dates and locations, if any. (2) A reclamation plan shall accompany all applications for prospecting permits. If it is physically or economically impracticable or environmentally or socially undesirable for the reclamation process to return the affected area to its original state, the plan shall set forth the reasons therefor and shall discuss alternative conditions and uses to which the affected area can be put. (3) The reclamation plan shall specify how the applicant intends to accomplish, to the fullest extent possible, compliance with the minimum standards under s. 293.13 (2) (c). (5) If the department determines that a statement under s. 1.11 is required for consideration of an application for a prospecting permit, the statement need not consider impacts unrelated to the proposed prospecting activity, other than the issue of unsuitability for surface mining, absent a certification under sub. (1).History:  1977 c. 421; 1995 a. 227 ss. 758, 765, 768, 994; 1997 a. 169.
WI Stat § 293.39 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 293 - Nonferrous metallic mining.|293.39 - Environmental impact statement.

293.39  Environmental impact statement. (1) The department shall prepare an environmental impact statement for every mining permit under s. 293.49. In preparing the environmental impact statement, the department shall comply with sub. (2) and s. 1.11 (2). (2) A statement prepared under sub. (1) shall include a description of the significant long-term and short-term impacts, including impacts after the mining has ended, on all of the following:(a) Tourism.(b) Employment.(c) Schools and medical care facilities.(d) Private and public social services.(e) The tax base.(f) The local economy.(g) Other significant factors. (3) To the extent that an environmental impact statement on a prospecting permit application under s. 293.35, if prepared, fully considered unsuitability of the prospecting site for surface mining by virtue of unique features of the land as enumerated in s. 293.01 (28), that portion of the previous impact statement may be adopted in the impact statement on the mining permit application.History:  1991 a. 259; 1995 a. 227 s. 780, 782; Stats. 1995 s. 293.39.
WI Stat § 293.41 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 293 - Nonferrous metallic mining.|293.41 - Local agreements.

293.41  Local agreements. (1) A county, town, village, city or tribal government that requires an operator to obtain an approval or permit under a zoning or land use ordinance and a county, town, village or city in which any portion of a proposed mining site is located may, individually or in conjunction with other counties, towns, villages, cities, or tribal governments, enter into one or more agreements with an operator for the development of a mining operation. (2) An agreement under sub. (1) shall include all of the following:(a) A legal description of the land subject to the agreement and the names of its legal and equitable owners.(b) The duration of the agreement.(c) The uses permitted on the land.(d) A description of any conditions, terms, restrictions or other requirements determined to be necessary by the county, town, village, city or tribal government for the public health, safety or welfare of its residents.(e) A description of any obligation undertaken by the county, town, village, city or tribal government to enable the development to proceed.(f) The applicability or nonapplicability of county, town, village, city or tribal ordinances, approvals or resolutions.(g) A provision for the amendment of the agreement.(h) Other provisions deemed reasonable and necessary by the parties to the agreement. (3) A county, town, village, city or tribal government may authorize the local impact committee appointed under s. 293.33 to negotiate an agreement under this section, but the agreement may not take effect until approved by the county, town, village, city or tribal government in accordance with sub. (4). (4) The county, town, village, city or tribal government shall hold a public hearing on an agreement under sub. (1) before its adoption. Notice of the hearing shall be provided as a class 2 notice, under ch. 985. After the public hearing, the governing body of each county, town, village, city or tribal government which is to be a party to the agreement must approve the agreement in a public meeting of the governing body. (5) A state agency shall assist a county, town, village, city or tribal government in enforcing those provisions of a local agreement that are within the expertise of the state agency.History:  1987 a. 399; 1991 a. 259; 1995 a. 227 s. 763; Stats. 1995 s. 293.41.This section is an express delegation to towns of the power to enter into local agreements with mining companies, creating an exemption to general zoning statutes. When a town negotiates under this section, it has only local zoning permits and approvals to give the mining company in exchange for the mining company addressing its land-use concerns. Nicolet Minerals Company v. Town of Nashville, 2002 WI App 50, 250 Wis. 2d 831, 641 N.W.2d 497, 01-1339.
WI Stat § 293.47 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 293 - Nonferrous metallic mining.|293.47 - Prospecting data.

293.47  Prospecting data. (1) Definitions. In this section:(a) “Economic information" means financial and economic projections for any potential mining of an ore body including estimates of capital costs, predicted expenses, price forecasts and metallurgical recovery estimates.(b) “Geologic information" means information concerning descriptions of a nonferrous ore body, descriptions of reserves, tonnages and grades of nonferrous ore, descriptions of a drill core or bulk sample including analysis, descriptions of drill hole depths, distances and similar information related to the nonferrous ore body. (c) “Prospecting data" means data, records and other information furnished to or obtained by the department in connection with the application for a prospecting permit. (2)  Prospecting data in general. Except as provided under sub. (3), prospecting data are public records subject to subch. II of ch. 19. (3)  Confidential prospecting data.  (a)  Request for confidential status. An applicant for a prospecting permit may request confidential status for any prospecting data.(b)  Confidential status. The department shall grant confidential status to prospecting data if the applicant makes a request and if the prospecting data relates to economic information or geologic information or is entitled to confidential status under rules promulgated by the department.History:  1973 c. 318; 1979 c. 221; 1981 c. 86; 1981 c. 335 s. 26; 1995 a. 227 s. 795; Stats. 1995 s. 293.47; 2013 a. 1.
WI Stat § 293.53 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 293 - Nonferrous metallic mining.|293.53 - Review of permits; periodic reports.

293.53  Review of permits; periodic reports. (1) (a) Eighteen months after the issuance of a prospecting permit, and annually thereafter until prospecting ceases, the department shall review the permit, reclamation plan and bond to ascertain adequacy, compliance with state or federal laws enacted after the issuance of the permit and technological currency. If the department after review determines that the plan should be modified or the bond amount changed, it shall notify the permit holder of the necessary modifications or changes. If the permit holder does not request a hearing within 30 days, the modifications or changes shall be deemed accepted.(b) If the permit holder desires to modify the permit, an amended application shall be submitted to the department, which shall process the amendment as if it were an original application if the proposed modification substantially broadens or changes the scope of the original prospecting proposal.(c) To the extent that testimony and evidence submitted at the original prospecting permit proceedings or from previous modification hearings is relevant to the issues of modification or granting or denial of the amendment, it may be adopted in the subsequent proceedings, subject to the opportunity for cross-examination and rebuttal, if not unduly repetitious. (2) (a) The operator shall furnish the department with a report for each mining site every 12 months after issuance of the permit, within 30 days after completion of all mining at the mining site and within 30 days after completion of the mining plan and of the reclamation plan. The reports shall include, in addition to such other information as the department requires, such information and maps as the department deems necessary to evaluate the extent of mining and the reclamation accomplished during the previous calendar year.(b) Annually, the department shall review the mining and reclamation plans and bonds, using the procedure specified under sub. (1).(c) The department shall cancel the mining permit held by any operator who fails and refuses to submit reports required under this subsection.History:  1995 a. 227 s. 767; 1995 a. 227 ss. 791, 994.
WI Stat § 293.57 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 293 - Nonferrous metallic mining.|293.57 - Successors.

293.57  Successors. When one operator succeeds to the interest of another in an uncompleted mining operation by sale, assignment, lease or otherwise, the department shall release the first operator from the duties imposed upon the first operator by this chapter as to such operation if: (1) Both operators have complied with the requirements of this chapter; and (2) The successor operator discloses whether it has forfeited any performance security because of noncompliance with any prospecting or mining laws within the previous 20 years, posts any bond required under s. 293.51 and assumes all responsibilities of all applicable permits, licenses and approvals granted to the predecessor operator.History:  1995 a. 227 s. 786.
WI Stat § 293.59 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 293 - Nonferrous metallic mining.|293.59 - Cessation of mining or reclamation.

293.59  Cessation of mining or reclamation. If there is a cessation of mining or reclamation which is not set forth in either the mining plan or the reclamation plan, the operator shall so notify the department within 48 hours and shall commence stabilization of the mining site according to rules established by the department. If the department determines after hearing that stabilization of the mining site is inadequate to protect the environment, the department shall order the operator to commence additional measures to protect the environment, including, if the cessation is reasonably anticipated to extend for a protracted period of time, reclamation according to the reclamation plan or part of the reclamation plan. Usual and regular shutdown of operations on weekends, for maintenance or repair of equipment or facilities or for other customary reasons shall not constitute a cessation of mining.History:  1977 c. 421; 1995 a. 227 s. 788; Stats. 1995 s. 293.59.
WI Stat § 293.61 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 293 - Nonferrous metallic mining.|293.61 - Determination of abandonment of mining.

293.61  Determination of abandonment of mining. (1) Except as provided under sub. (2), abandonment of mining occurs if there is a cessation of mining, not set forth in an operator's mining or reclamation plans or by any other sufficient written or constructive notice, extending for more than 6 consecutive months. (2) Abandonment of mining does not occur:(a) If the cessation of mining is due either to labor strikes or to such unforeseen developments as adverse market conditions, as determined by the department;(b) If the cessation of mining does not continue beyond the time period specified by the department. The time limit specified by the department may not exceed 5 years for a mining operation for which a permit is issued under s. 293.49 on or after May 19, 1984. The time limit specified by the department may not exceed 10 years for a mining operation for which a permit is issued under s. 293.49 before May 19, 1984;(c) If the site is maintained in an environmentally stable manner, as determined by the department, during the cessation of mining; and(d) If the reclamation of the site continues according to the reclamation plan during the cessation of mining to the extent possible.History:  1983 a. 517 s. 1, 2; 1995 a. 227 s. 743; Stats. 1995 s. 293.61.
WI Stat § 293.63 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 293 - Nonferrous metallic mining.|293.63 - Certificate of completion, partial completion and bond release.

293.63  Certificate of completion, partial completion and bond release. (1) Upon the petition of the operator, but not less than 4 years after notification to the department by the operator of the completion of the reclamation plan, if the department finds after conducting a hearing that the operator has completed reclamation for any portion of the mining site in accordance with the reclamation plan and this chapter, the department shall issue a certificate of completion setting forth a description of the area reclaimed and a statement that the operator has fulfilled its duties under the reclamation plan as to that area. (2) Upon the issuance of any certificate of completion under sub. (1) for any portion of the mining site, but not for the entire mining site, the department shall allow the operator to reduce the amount of the bond to an amount which shall equal the estimated cost of reclamation of the portion of the mining site which is disturbed or for which reclamation has been completed but no certificate of completion has been issued. (3) Upon issuance of a certificate or certificates of completion of reclamation for the entire mining site, the department shall require that the operator maintain a bond equal to at least 10 percent of the cost to the state of reclamation of the entire mining site if mining of the site was wholly underground, and at least 20 percent of the cost to the state of reclamation of the entire mining site if any surface mining was conducted. Where the mining site in the mining plan is less than 10 acres, the department may release the bond after issuance of the certificate under sub. (1). (4) After 20 years after the issuance of a certificate or certificates of completion for the entire mining site, the department shall release the bond if the department finds that the reclamation plan has been complied with. (5) The department shall, by rule, establish a procedure for release of reclamation bonds for prospecting sites similar to subs. (1) to (4), but with shorter time periods.History:  1973 c. 318; 1977 c. 421; 1995 a. 227 s. 792; Stats. 1995 s. 293.63.
WI Stat § 293.66 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 293 - Nonferrous metallic mining.|293.66 - Groundwater quality.

293.66  Groundwater quality. (1) For the site of any activity that will take place under a mining or prospecting permit or under another approval related to a mining or prospecting operation, the department shall determine the depth in the Precambrian bedrock below which the groundwater is not reasonably capable of being used or made suitable for human consumption and is not hydrologically connected to other sources of groundwater that are suitable for human consumption. The department shall notify the applicant of its determination before the department issues a draft environmental impact statement. (2) For an activity regulated under a mining or prospecting permit or another approval related to the mining or prospecting operation, the department may not apply a groundwater enforcement standard at any point that is deeper than the depth identified under sub. (1).History:  2017 a. 134.
WI Stat § 293.81 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 293 - Nonferrous metallic mining.|293.81 - Exploring, bulk sampling, prospecting, and mining without authorization.

293.81  Exploring, bulk sampling, prospecting, and mining without authorization. Any person who engages in exploration without a license or bulk sampling without the necessary license or approvals shall forfeit not less than $100 nor more than $1,000 for each parcel as defined under s. 293.21 (1) (b) on which unlicensed exploration or bulk sampling without the necessary license or approvals took place. Any person who authorizes or engages in prospecting without a prospecting permit or any operator who authorizes or engages in mining without a mining permit and written authorization to mine under s. 293.51 (3) shall forfeit all profits obtained from such illegal activities and not more than $10,000 for each day during which the mine was in operation. The operator shall be liable to the department for the full cost of reclaiming the affected area of land and any damages caused by the mining operation. Each day's violation of this section shall be deemed a separate offense. If the violator is a corporation, limited liability company, partnership or association, any officer, director, member, manager or partner who knowingly authorizes, supervises or contracts for exploration, bulk sampling, prospecting, or mining shall also be subject to the penalties of this section.History:  1973 c. 318; 1977 c. 421; 1993 a. 112; 1995 a. 227 s. 789; Stats. 1995 s. 293.81; 2017 a. 134.
WI Stat § 293.85 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 293 - Nonferrous metallic mining.|293.85 - Cancellation of permit.

293.85  Cancellation of permit. The department may, after hearing, cancel: (1) The prospecting permit for a prospecting site that is the site of a violation of this chapter. (2) The mining permit for a mining site that is the site of a violation of this chapter. (3) A mining or prospecting permit, if the permit holder intentionally made a false statement in the permit application or intentionally omitted information from the permit application which was material to permit issuance.History:  1995 a. 227 s. 750, 994.
WI Stat § 293.86 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 293 - Nonferrous metallic mining.|293.86 - Visitorial powers of department.

293.86  Visitorial powers of department. Any duly authorized officer, employee or representative of the department may enter and inspect any property, premises or place on or at which any prospecting or mining operation or facility is located or is being constructed or installed at any reasonable time for the purpose of ascertaining the state of compliance with this chapter and chs. 281, 285, 289 to 292, and 299, subchs. I and II of ch. 295, and rules adopted pursuant thereto. No person may refuse entry or access to any such authorized representative of the department who requests entry for purposes of inspection, and who presents appropriate credentials, nor may any person obstruct, hamper or interfere with any such inspection. The department shall furnish to the prospector or operator, as indicated in the prospecting or mining permit, a written report setting forth all observations, relevant information and data which relate to compliance status. History:  1995 a. 227 s. 404; 2013 a. 1.
WI Stat § 293.87 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 293 - Nonferrous metallic mining.|293.87 - Enforcement; penalties.

293.87  Enforcement; penalties. (1) All orders issued, fines incurred, bond liabilities incurred or other violations committed under this chapter shall be enforced by the department of justice. The circuit court of Dane County or any other county where the violation occurred shall have jurisdiction to enforce this chapter or any orders issued or rules adopted thereunder, by injunctional or other appropriate relief. (2) Any person who makes or causes to be made in an application or report required by this chapter a statement known to the person to be false or misleading in any material respect or who refuses to file an annual report under s. 293.53 (2) (a) or who refuses to submit information required by the prospecting or mining permit may be fined not less than $1,000 nor more than $5,000. If the false or misleading statement is material to the issuance of the permit, the permit may be revoked. If any violation under this subsection is repeated the permit may be revoked. (3) Any person holding a prospecting or mining permit who violates this chapter or any order issued or rule adopted under this chapter shall forfeit not less than $10 nor more than $10,000 for each violation. Each day of violation is a separate offense. If the violations continue after an order to cease has been issued, the permit shall be revoked. (4) (a) Except for the violations enumerated in subs. (2) and (3), any person who violates this chapter or any rule promulgated or any plan approval, license or special order issued under this chapter shall forfeit not less than $10 nor more than $5,000 for each violation. Each day of continued violation is a separate offense. While an order is suspended, stayed or enjoined, this penalty does not accrue.(b) In addition to the penalties provided under par. (a), the court may award the department of justice the reasonable and necessary expenses of the investigation and prosecution of the violation, including attorney fees. The department of justice shall deposit in the state treasury for deposit into the general fund all moneys that the court awards to the department or the state under this paragraph. The costs of investigation and the expenses of prosecution, including attorney fees, shall be credited to the appropriation account under s. 20.455 (1) (gh). History:  1973 c. 318; 1977 c. 421; 1995 a. 227 s. 796, 994; Stats. 1995 s. 293.87; 2001 a. 109; 2003 a. 309.