49-420. Mined-land conservation and reclamation fee fund and mined-land reclamation fund; administrative expenses. - Kansas Statutes

49-420

Chapter 49.--MINES AND MINING Article 4.--MINED-LAND CONSERVATION AND RECLAMATION

      49-420.   Mined-land conservation and reclamation feefund and mined-land reclamation fund; administrative expenses.(a) The department shall remit allmoneys received from the payment of fees or from civil penaltiesassessed by the secretary, including any interest thereon, tothe state treasurerin accordance with the provisions of K.S.A. 75-4215,and amendments thereto. Upon receipt of eachsuch remittance, the state treasurer shall deposit the entire amountin the state treasury. Twenty percent of each such deposit shallbe credited to the state general fund and the balance shall becredited to the mined-land conservation and reclamation fee fund. Allexpenditures from the mined-land conservation and reclamation fee fundshall be made in accordance with appropriation acts upon warrants of thedirector of accounts and reports issued pursuant to vouchers approved bythesecretary or bya person or persons designated by the secretary and maybe expended for theadministration and enforcement of this act.

      (b)   The mined-land reclamation fund is hereby created in the state treasury.The secretary shall remit all moneysreceived from the forfeiture of bonds to the state treasurerin accordance with the provisions of K.S.A. 75-4215,and amendments thereto. Upon receipt of each such remittance, the statetreasurershall deposit the entire amount in the state treasury to the credit ofthe mined-land reclamation fund.The expenditures fromthe mined-land reclamation fund which are used for the reclamation ofland shall be made in accordance with appropriationacts upon warrants of the director of accounts and reports issued pursuantto vouchers approved by the secretary or by a person or persons designated bythe secretaryand shall be expended for reclamation of land affected by open pit, strippit and surface types of mine operations. Administrative expensesassociated with reclamation of the respective sites and not chargeddirectly to the mined-land reclamation fund shall be made byintra-agency transfer to the mined-land conservation and reclamation fee fund.

      History:   L. 1968, ch. 395, § 20; L. 1974, ch. 229, § 6;L. 1981, ch. 213, § 11;L. 1988, ch. 192, § 24;L. 1990, ch. 194, § 3;L. 2001, ch. 5, § 185; July 1.