HB 2102 Summary

• Amends Arizona Revised Statutes Section 27-271 to revise the definition of "common variety minerals" for purposes of state land leasing.

• Clarifies that common variety minerals include petrified wood, stone, pumice, pumicite, cinders, decomposed granite, sand, gravel, boulders, common clay, fill dirt, and waste rock.

• Specifies that common variety minerals include materials used as road base, riprap, ballast, borrow, fill, facing stone, and landscaping or ornamental uses, despite any value in trade or manufacturing.

• Excludes limestone suitable for cement production, metallurgical or chemical grade limestone, and gypsum from the definition of common variety minerals.