2020 Senate Bill 849

Establish legal presumption that gravel mining not environmentally destructive

Introduced in the Senate

March 17, 2020

Introduced by Sen. Adam Hollier (D-2)

To clarify in the state’s environmental regulation law that gravel mining (“excavation and removal of aggregates and of associated overburden”) does not, of itself, “constitute pollution, impairment, or destruction of natural resources”.

Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

Sept. 23, 2020

Reported without amendment

With the recommendation that the substitute (S-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.