1. Each operator shall, on or before April 15 of each year, submit to the Administrator a report relating to the status and production of all mining operations and exploration projects in which the operator has engaged and identifying each acre of land affected and land reclaimed by that mining operation or exploration project through the preceding calendar year, and shall pay to the Division a fee of:
(a) One dollar and fifty cents for each acre of public land administered by a federal agency; and
(b) Five dollars and fifty cents for each acre of privately owned land,
which has been disturbed by mining operations or exploration projects engaged in by the operator and not reclaimed.
2. All money received by the State Treasurer pursuant to paragraph (a) of subsection 1 together with three-elevenths of all money received by the State Treasurer pursuant to paragraph (b) of subsection 1, up to a maximum of $100,000 annually, must be distributed directly to the Bureau of Mines and Geology of the State of Nevada to be used to carry out the provisions of NRS 514.060. Any money in excess of the maximum and the balance collected pursuant to paragraph (b) of subsection 1 must be credited to the appropriate account for the Division and used to administer the provisions of this chapter.
(Added to NRS by 1989, 1287; A 1991, 201)