Virginia Administrative Code
Title 4 - CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES
Agency 25 - DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Chapter 130 - COAL SURFACE MINING RECLAMATION REGULATIONS
Part 801 - Coal Surface Mining Reclamation Fund, Penalties, and Self-Bonding
Section 4VAC25-130-801.14 - Reclamation tax

Universal Citation: 4 VA Admin Code 25-130-801-14

Current through Register Vol. 41, No. 3, September 23, 2024

(a) If at the end of any calendar quarter the total balance of the Pool Bond Fund, including interest thereon, is less than $1,750,000, the tax shall be initiated. All permittees participating in the Pool Bond Fund shall pay within 30 days after the end of each taxable calendar quarter, an amount equal to:

(1) Four cents per clean ton of coal produced by the surface mining operation of the permit during the taxable calendar quarter.

(2) Three cents per clean ton of coal produced by the underground mining operation of the permit during the taxable calendar quarter.

(3) One and one-half cents per clean ton of coal processed or loaded by the preparation or loading facility operation of the permit during the taxable calendar quarter.

(b) If at the end of any calendar quarter the total balance of the Pool Bond Fund, including interest thereon, exceeds $2 million, payments shall be deferred until required by 4VAC25-130-801.14(a).

(c) No permittee shall pay the reclamation tax on more than five million tons of coal produced per calendar year, regardless of the number of permits held by that permittee, except as provided in Subsection (e) of this section.

(d) In no event except as provided in Subsection (e) of this section, shall the division require any permittee participating in the Pool Bond Fund:

(1) Holding more than one type of permit to pay a reclamation tax at a rate in excess of five and one-half cents per ton on coal originally surface mined by that permittee or in excess of four and one-half cents per ton on coal originally deep mined by that permittee; or

(2) Holding one permit upon which coal is both mined and processed or loaded to pay more than the tax applicable to the surface mining operation or underground mining operation. However, the permittee shall pay the one and one-half cents per clean ton for all coal processed and/or loaded at the permit which originated from other permits during the calendar quarter.

(e) Upon permit issuance for which bond is provided pursuant to this Part, the permittee shall pay the applicable reclamation tax required by Subsection (a) into the Pool Bond Fund on coal mined and removed under the permit during the one year period commencing with and running from the date of the commencement of coal production, processing or loading from that permit.

Statutory Authority

§§ 45.1-161.3 and 45.1-230 of the Code of Virginia.

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