HB 2437 Summary

• Amends Arizona Revised Statutes Section 27-301 to expand the definition of "mining" to include exploration, development, and extraction activities from mines.

• Adds off-site infrastructure activities (power, water, fiber-optic and other communications services) and construction facilities to the definition of mining.

• Includes mined land reclamation activities regulated under chapters 5 or 6 of the mining statutes as part of the mining definition.

• Clarifies that mining encompasses on-site transportation, storing materials, concentrating, milling, leaching, smelting and other processing of ores or materials.