Every person, pursuant to §§ 60.10 and 295.14, Wis. Stats.,
and this chapter, doing business in the Town of Fulton who engages in a nonmetallic
mining operation at a nonmetallic mining site in the Town of Fulton or a person
who engages in reclamation of a nonmetallic mining site shall seek and obtain
a nonmetallic mining permit from the Town of Fulton. The fee for such permit
shall be established by the Town Board of the Town of Fulton. The permit shall
be issued from July 1 of one year to June 30 of the next year. The permit
shall be issued by the Town Clerk/Treasurer of the Town of Fulton prior to
the person conducting and maintaining a nonmetallic mining operation at a
nonmetallic mining site in the Town of Fulton.
The application and permit shall designate the premises to be used by
the permitted person for the nonmetallic mining operation. The permit may
not be amended if the person changes premises in the Town of Fulton for the
nonmetallic mining site. The application for permit shall contain:
A. The name of the applicant.
B. The address of the applicant.
C. The business and residential telephone number of the
applicant, if any.
D. Description of quantity and manner of the nonmetallic
mining operation.
Persons will be exempt from this permit requirement if they conduct
in the Town of Fulton the following activities:
A. Excavations or grading by a person solely for domestic
use at his or her residence.
B. Grading conducted for farming (personal use only), preparing
a construction site or restoring land following a flood or natural disaster.
C. Excavations for building construction purposes.
D. Any mining operation, the reclamation of which is required
in a permit obtained under Ch. 293, Wis. Stats.
E. Any activities conducted at a solid or hazardous waste
disposal facility site required to prepare, operate or close a solid waste
disposal facility under Subchapters II to IV of Ch. 289, Wis. Stats., or a
hazardous waste disposal facility under Ch. 291, Wis. Stats., but this chapter
may apply to activities related to solid or hazardous waste disposal which
are conducted at a facility, such as activities to obtain nonmetallic minerals
to be used for lining, capping, covering or constructing berms, dikes or roads
for the solid waste facility or the hazardous waste facility.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meaning
indicated:
ASBESTOS
Chrysotile, crocidolite, amosite, fibrous tremolite, fibrous actinolite
or fibrous anthophyllite.
NONMETALLIC MINING
Operations or activities for the extraction from the earth for sale
or use by the operator of mineral aggregates such as stone, sand and gravel
and nonmetallic minerals such as asbestos, beryl, clay, feldspar, peat and
talc, related operations or activities such as excavation, grading or dredging
if the purpose of those operations or activities is the extraction of mineral
aggregates and nonmetallic minerals, and related processes such as crushing,
screening, scalping, dewatering and blending.