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  • (1) "Critical infrastructure materials" means sand, gravel, or rock aggregate.
  • (2) "Critical infrastructure materials operations" means the extraction, excavation, processing, or reprocessing of critical infrastructure materials.
  • (3) "Critical infrastructure materials operator" means a natural person, corporation, association, partnership, receiver, trustee, executor, administrator, guardian, fiduciary, agent, or other organization or representative, either public or private, including a successor, assign, affiliate, subsidiary, and related parent company, that:
    • (a) owns, controls, or manages a critical infrastructure materials operations; and
    • (b) has produced commercial quantities of critical infrastructure materials from the critical infrastructure materials operations.
  • (4) "Vested critical infrastructure materials operations" means critical infrastructure materials operations operating in accordance with a legal nonconforming use or a permit issued by the county that existed or was conducted or otherwise engaged in before:
    • (a) a political subdivision prohibits, restricts, or otherwise limits the critical infrastructure materials operations; and
    • (b) January 1, 2019.




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