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Senate bill would create Ohiofirst statewide rules for underground limestone mining, change permitting and taxes
Summary
Sponsor Sen. Wilkin told the Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee that Senate Bill 181 would create a regulatory program for underground mining of limestone and dolomite, align rules with surface-mining law, change permit renewal and amendment processes, and raise parts of the severance tax to fund oversight and off-site impacts.
Sen. Wilkin told the Ohio Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee that Senate Bill 181 would create the statefirst regulatory framework for underground mining of limestone and dolomite and would fold that regulation into the Ohio Department of Natural ResourcesDivision of Mineral Resources Management.
The bill matters because, as Wilkin said in sponsor testimony, industrial minerals such as limestone are central to infrastructure and construction: "Asphalt is made up of 95% industrial minerals. Concrete, 85% industrial minerals," and Ohio produces "110,000,000 tons of material annually with a value exceeding $1,600,000,000." The sponsor cited an Ohio Department of Transportationfunded 2021 study that warned permitted-material shortages in parts of the state.
Senate Bill 181 would do several things at once: establish permitting, oversight and rulemaking for underground limestone and dolomite mining; require ODNR to adopt rules addressing permitting,…
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