This document includes Senate Committee Amendments incorporated into the bill on Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 5:14 PM by lpoole.
This document includes Senate 2nd and 3rd Reading Floor Amendments incorporated into the bill on Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 4:42 PM by lpoole.
Representative Logan Wilde proposes the following substitute bill:


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CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE MATERIALS

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2019 GENERAL SESSION

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STATE OF UTAH

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Chief Sponsor: Logan Wilde

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Senate Sponsor: David P. Hinkins

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7     LONG TITLE
8     General Description:
9          This bill addresses critical infrastructure materials.
10     Highlighted Provisions:
11          This bill:
12          ▸     enacts provisions related to vested critical infrastructure materials operations;
13          ▸     amends a definition provision;
14          ▸     addresses advisory boards;
15          ▸     provides for the creation of critical infrastructure materials protection areas;
16          ▸     addresses adding land to or removing land from a critical infrastructure materials
17     protection area;
18          ▸     requires review of a critical infrastructure materials protection area;
19          ▸     limits local regulation of a critical infrastructure materials protection area;
20          ▸     addresses nuisances;
21          ▸     requires certain recordings with the county recorder;
22          ▸     addresses actions of state agencies related to critical infrastructure materials
23     protection areas;
24          ▸     restricts eminent domain; and
25          ▸     makes technical and conforming changes.
26     Money Appropriated in this Bill:
27          None
28     Other Special Clauses:
29          None
30     Utah Code Sections Affected:
31     AMENDS:
32          17-41-101, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2015, Chapter 352
33          17-41-201, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 179
34          17-41-301, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2011, Chapter 297
35          17-41-302, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2009, Chapter 388
36          17-41-303, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2006, Chapter 194
37          17-41-304, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2010, Chapter 90
38          17-41-305, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2006, Chapter 194
39          17-41-306, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2009, Chapter 376
40          17-41-307, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2017, Chapter 92
41          17-41-402, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2009, Chapter 376
42          17-41-403, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2009, Chapter 376
43          17-41-404, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2006, Chapter 194
44          17-41-405, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2010, Chapter 90
45          17-41-406, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2008, Chapter 168
46          76-10-803, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2009, Chapter 21
47          78B-6-1101, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2010, Chapter 193
48     ENACTS:
49          10-9a-901, Utah Code Annotated 1953
50          10-9a-902, Utah Code Annotated 1953
51          10-9a-903, Utah Code Annotated 1953
52          10-9a-904, Utah Code Annotated 1953
53          10-9a-905, Utah Code Annotated 1953
54          17-27a-1001, Utah Code Annotated 1953
55          17-27a-1002, Utah Code Annotated 1953
56          17-27a-1003, Utah Code Annotated 1953
57          17-27a-1004, Utah Code Annotated 1953
58          17-27a-1005, Utah Code Annotated 1953
59          78B-6-1115, Utah Code Annotated 1953
60     

61     Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
62          Section 1. Section 10-9a-901 is enacted to read:
63     
Part 9. Vested Critical Infrastructure Materials Operations

64          10-9a-901. Definitions.
65          As used in this part:
66          (1) "Critical infrastructure materials" means sand, gravel, or rock aggregate.
67          (2) "Critical infrastructure materials operations" means the extraction, excavation,
68     processing, or reprocessing of critical infrastructure materials.
69          (3) "Critical infrastructure materials operator" means a natural person, corporation,
70     association, partnership, receiver, trustee, executor, administrator, guardian, fiduciary, agent, or
71     other organization or representative, either public or private, including a successor, assign,
72     affiliate, subsidiary, and related parent company, that:
73          (a) owns, controls, or manages a critical infrastructure materials operations; and
74          (b) has produced commercial quantities of critical infrastructure materials from the
75     critical infrastructure materials operations.
76          (4) "Vested critical infrastructure materials operations" means critical infrastructure
77     materials operations operating in accordance with a legal nonconforming use or a permit issued
78     by the municipality that existed or was conducted or otherwise engaged in before Ŝ→ :
78a     (a) ←Ŝ a political
79     subdivision prohibits, restricts, or otherwise limits the critical infrastructure materials
80     operations Ŝ→ [.] ; and
80a     (b) January 1, 2019. ←Ŝ
81          Section 2. Section 10-9a-902 is enacted to read:
82          10-9a-902. Vested critical infrastructure materials operations -- Conclusive
83     presumption.
84          (1) (a) Critical infrastructure materials operations operating in accordance with a legal
85     nonconforming use or a permit issued by the municipality are conclusively presumed to be
86     vested critical infrastructure materials operations if the critical infrastructure materials
87     operations Ŝ→ permitted by the municipality, ←Ŝ existed or was conducted or otherwise engaged
87a     in before Ŝ→ January 1, 2019 and before when ←Ŝ a political subdivision
88     prohibits, restricts, or otherwise limits the critical infrastructure materials operations.
89          (b) A person claiming that a vested critical infrastructure materials operations has been
90     established has the burden of proof to show by the preponderance of the evidence that the
91     vested critical infrastructure materials operations has been established.
92          (2) A vested critical infrastructure materials operations:
93          (a) runs with the land; and
94          (b) may be changed to another critical infrastructure materials operations conducted
95     within the scope of a legal nonconforming use or the permit for the vested critical infrastructure
96     materials operations without losing its status as a vested critical infrastructure materials
97     operations.
98          Section 3. Section 10-9a-903 is enacted to read:
99          10-9a-903. Rights of a critical infrastructure materials operator with a vested
100     critical infrastructure materials operations Ŝ→ [-- Expanding vested critical infrastructure
101     materials operations.
102          (1)] ←Ŝ Notwithstanding a political subdivision's prohibition, restriction, or other limitation
103     on a critical infrastructure materials operations adopted after the establishment of the critical
104     infrastructure materials operations, the rights of a critical infrastructure materials operator with
105     vested critical infrastructure materials operations include the right to:
106          Ŝ→ [(a)] (1) ←Ŝ use, operate, construct, reconstruct, restore, maintain, repair, alter,
106a     substitute,
107     modernize, upgrade, and replace equipment, processes, facilities, and buildings Ŝ→ [on any surface
108     or subsurface land that the critical infrastructure materials operator owns or controls] ←Ŝ ; and
109          Ŝ→ [(b)] (2) ←Ŝ discontinue, suspend, terminate, deactivate, or continue and reactivate,
109a     temporarily
110     or permanently, all or any part of the critical infrastructure materials operations.
111          Ŝ→ [(2) A vested critical infrastructure materials operator may expand a vested critical
112     infrastructure materials operation only if:
113          (a) the land to which the vested critical infrastructure materials operator expands is
114     contiguous with land that the vested critical infrastructure materials operator owns or controls;
115          (b) the vested critical infrastructure materials operator owns or leases the land to which
116     the vested critical infrastructure materials operator expands as of February 1, 2019;
117          (c) the land is zoned for vested critical infrastructure materials operations; and
118          (d) the expansion is in accordance with a legal nonconforming use or a permit issued☆
119     ☆by the municipality.] ←Ŝ
120          Section 4. Section 10-9a-904 is enacted to read:
121          10-9a-904. Notice.
122          For any new subdivision development located in whole or in part within 1,000 feet of
123     the boundary of a vested critical infrastructure materials operations, the owner of the
124     development shall provide notice on any plat filed with the county recorder the following
125     notice:
126          "Vested Critical Infrastructure Materials Operations
127          This property is located in the vicinity of an established vested critical infrastructure
128     materials operations in which critical infrastructure materials operations have been afforded the
129     highest priority use status. It can be anticipated that such operations may now or in the future
130     be conducted on property included in the critical infrastructure materials protection area. The
131     use and enjoyment of this property is expressly conditioned on acceptance of any annoyance or
132     inconvenience that may result from such normal critical infrastructure materials operations."
133          Section 5. Section 10-9a-905 is enacted to read:
134          10-9a-905. Abandonment of a vested critical infrastructure materials operations.
135          (1) A critical infrastructure materials operator may abandon some or all of a vested
136     critical infrastructure materials operations use only as provided in this section.
137          (2) To abandon some or all of a vested critical infrastructure materials operations, a
138     critical infrastructure materials operator shall record a written declaration of abandonment with
139     the recorder of the county in which the vested critical infrastructure materials operations being
140     abandoned is located.
141          (3) The written declaration of abandonment under Subsection (2) shall specify the
142     vested critical infrastructure materials operations or the portion of the vested critical
143     infrastructure materials operations being abandoned.
144          Section 6. Section 17-27a-1001 is enacted to read:
145     
Part 10. Vested Critical Infrastructure Materials Operations

146          17-27a-1001. Definitions.
147          As used in this part:
148          (1) "Critical infrastructure materials" means sand, gravel, or rock aggregate.
149          (2) "Critical infrastructure materials operations" means the extraction, excavation,
150     processing, or reprocessing of critical infrastructure materials.
151          (3) "Critical infrastructure materials operator" means a natural person, corporation,
152     association, partnership, receiver, trustee, executor, administrator, guardian, fiduciary, agent, or
153     other organization or representative, either public or private, including a successor, assign,
154     affiliate, subsidiary, and related parent company, that:
155          (a) owns, controls, or manages a critical infrastructure materials operations; and
156          (b) has produced commercial quantities of critical infrastructure materials from the
157     critical infrastructure materials operations.
158          (4) "Vested critical infrastructure materials operations" means critical infrastructure
159     materials operations operating in accordance with a legal nonconforming use or a permit issued
160     by the county that existed or was conducted or otherwise engaged in before Ŝ→ :
160a     (a) ←Ŝ a political
161     subdivision prohibits, restricts, or otherwise limits the critical infrastructure materials
162     operations Ŝ→ [.] ; and
162a     (b) January 1, 2019. ←Ŝ
163          Section 7. Section 17-27a-1002 is enacted to read:
164          17-27a-1002. Vested critical infrastructure materials operations -- Conclusive
165     presumption.
166          (1) (a) Critical infrastructure materials operations operating in accordance with a legal
167     nonconforming use or a permit issued by the county are conclusively presumed to be vested
168     critical infrastructure materials operations if the critical infrastructure materials operations Ŝ→
168a     permitted by the county, ←Ŝ
169     existed or was conducted or otherwise engaged in before Ŝ→ January 1, 2019 and before
169a     when ←Ŝ a political subdivision prohibits,
170     restricts, or otherwise limits the critical infrastructure materials operations.
171          (b) A person claiming that a vested critical infrastructure materials operations has been
172     established has the burden of proof to show by the preponderance of the evidence that the
173     vested critical infrastructure materials operations has been established.
174          (2) A vested critical infrastructure materials operations:
175          (a) runs with the land; and
176          (b) may be changed to another critical infrastructure materials operations conducted
177     within the scope of a legal nonconforming use or the permit for the vested critical infrastructure
178     materials operations without losing its status as a vested critical infrastructure materials
179     operations.
180          Section 8. Section 17-27a-1003 is enacted to read:
181          17-27a-1003. Rights of a critical infrastructure materials operator with a vested
182     critical infrastructure materials operations Ŝ→ [-- Expanding vested critical infrastructure
183     materials operations.
184          (1)] ←Ŝ Notwithstanding a political subdivision's prohibition, restriction, or other limitation
185     on a critical infrastructure materials operations adopted after the establishment of the critical
186     infrastructure materials operations, the rights of a critical infrastructure materials operator with
187     vested critical infrastructure materials operations include the right to:
188          Ŝ→ [(a)] (1) ←Ŝ use, operate, construct, reconstruct, restore, maintain, repair, alter,
188a     substitute,
189     modernize, upgrade, and replace equipment, processes, facilities, and buildings Ŝ→ [on any surface
190     or subsurface land that the critical infrastructure materials operator owns or controls] ←Ŝ ; and
191          Ŝ→ [(b)] (2) ←Ŝ discontinue, suspend, terminate, deactivate, or continue and reactivate,
191a     temporarily
192     or permanently, all or any part of the critical infrastructure materials operations.
193          Ŝ→ [(2) A vested critical infrastructure materials operator may expand a vested critical
194     infrastructure materials operator only if:
195          (a) the land to which the vested critical infrastructure materials operator expands is
196     contiguous with land that the vested critical infrastructure materials operator owns or controls;
197          (b) the vested critical infrastructure materials operator owns or leases the land to which
198     the vested critical infrastructure materials operator expands as of February 1, 2019;
199          (c) the land is zoned for vested critical infrastructure materials operations; and
200          (d) the expansion is in accordance with a legal nonconforming use or a permit issued
201     by the county.] ←Ŝ
202          Section 9. Section 17-27a-1004 is enacted to read:
203          17-27a-1004. Notice.
204          For any new subdivision development located in whole or in part within 1,000 feet of
205     the boundary of a vested critical infrastructure materials operations, the owner of the
206     development shall provide notice on any plat filed with the county recorder the following
207     notice:
208          "Vested Critical Infrastructure Materials Operations
209          This property is located in the vicinity of an established vested critical infrastructure
210     materials operations in which critical infrastructure materials operations have been afforded the
211     highest priority use status. It can be anticipated that such operations may now or in the future
212     be conducted on property included in the critical infrastructure materials operations. The use
213     and enjoyment of this property is expressly conditioned on acceptance of any annoyance or
214     inconvenience that may result from such normal critical infrastructure materials operations."
215          Section 10. Section 17-27a-1005 is enacted to read:
216          17-27a-1005. Abandonment of a vested critical infrastructure materials
217     operations.
218          (1) A critical infrastructure materials operator may abandon some or all of a vested
219     critical infrastructure materials operations use only as provided in this section.
220          (2) To abandon some or all of a vested critical infrastructure materials operations, a
221     critical infrastructure materials operator shall record a written declaration of abandonment with
222     the recorder of the county in which the vested critical infrastructure materials operations being
223     abandoned is located.
224          (3) The written declaration of abandonment under Subsection (2) shall specify the
225     vested critical infrastructure materials operations or the portion of the vested critical
226     infrastructure materials operations being abandoned.
227          Section 11. Section 17-41-101 is amended to read:
228     
CHAPTER 41. AGRICULTURE, INDUSTRIAL, OR CRITICAL

229     
INFRASTRUCTURE MATERIALS PROTECTION AREAS

230          17-41-101. Definitions.
231          As used in this chapter:
232          (1) "Advisory board" means:
233          (a) for an agriculture protection area, the agriculture protection area advisory board
234     created as provided in Section 17-41-201; [and]
235          (b) for an industrial protection area, the industrial protection area advisory board
236     created as provided in Section 17-41-201[.]; and
237          (c) for a critical infrastructure materials protection area, the critical infrastructure
238     materials protection area advisory board created as provided in Section 17-41-201.
239          (2) (a) "Agriculture production" means production for commercial purposes of crops,
240     livestock, and livestock products.
241          (b) "Agriculture production" includes the processing or retail marketing of any crops,
242     livestock, and livestock products when more than 50% of the processed or merchandised
243     products are produced by the farm operator.
244          (3) "Agriculture protection area" means a geographic area created under the authority
245     of this chapter that is granted the specific legal protections contained in this chapter.
246          (4) "Applicable legislative body" means:
247          (a) with respect to a proposed agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection
248     area, or critical infrastructure materials protection area:
249          (i) the legislative body of the county in which the land proposed to be included in [an
250     agriculture protection area or industrial] the relevant protection area is located, if the land is
251     within the unincorporated part of the county; or
252          (ii) the legislative body of the city or town in which the land proposed to be included in
253     [an agriculture protection area or industrial] the relevant protection area is located; and
254          (b) with respect to an existing agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection
255     area, or critical infrastructure materials protection area:
256          (i) the legislative body of the county in which the [agriculture protection area or
257     industrial] relevant protection area is located, if the [agriculture protection area or industrial]
258     relevant protection area is within the unincorporated part of the county; or
259          (ii) the legislative body of the city or town in which the[ agriculture protection area or
260     industrial] relevant protection area is located.
261          (5) "Board" means the Board of Oil, Gas, and Mining created in Section 40-6-4.
262          (6) "Critical infrastructure materials" means sand, gravel, or rock aggregate.
263          (7) "Critical infrastructure materials operations" means the extraction, excavation,
264     processing, or reprocessing of critical infrastructure materials.
265          (8) "Critical infrastructure materials operator" means a natural person, corporation,
266     association, partnership, receiver, trustee, executor, administrator, guardian, fiduciary, agent, or
267     other organization or representative, either public or private, including a successor, assign,
268     affiliate, subsidiary, and related parent company, that:
269          (a) owns, controls, or manages a critical infrastructure materials operation; and
270          (b) has produced commercial quantities of critical infrastructure materials from the
271     critical infrastructure materials operations.
272          (9) "Critical infrastructure materials protection area" means a geographic area created
273     under the authority of this chapter on or after May 14, 2019, that is granted the specific legal
274     protections contained in this chapter.
275          [(6)] (10) "Crops, livestock, and livestock products" includes:
276          (a) land devoted to the raising of useful plants and animals with a reasonable
277     expectation of profit, including:
278          (i) forages and sod crops;
279          (ii) grains and feed crops;
280          (iii) livestock as defined in Section 59-2-102;
281          (iv) trees and fruits; or
282          (v) vegetables, nursery, floral, and ornamental stock; or
283          (b) land devoted to and meeting the requirements and qualifications for payments or
284     other compensation under a crop-land retirement program with an agency of the state or federal
285     government.
286          [(7)] (11) "Division" means the Division of Oil, Gas, and Mining created in Section
287     40-6-15.
288          [(8)] (12) "Industrial protection area" means a geographic area created under the
289     authority of this chapter that is granted the specific legal protections contained in this chapter.
290          [(9)] (13) "Mine operator" means a natural person, corporation, association,
291     partnership, receiver, trustee, executor, administrator, guardian, fiduciary, agent, or other
292     organization or representative, either public or private, including a successor, assign, affiliate,
293     subsidiary, and related parent company, that, as of January 1, 2009:
294          (a) owns, controls, or manages a mining use under a large mine permit issued by the
295     division or the board; and
296          (b) has produced commercial quantities of a mineral deposit from the mining use.
297          [(10)] (14) "Mineral deposit" has the same meaning as defined in Section 40-8-4, but
298     excludes:
299          (a) building stone, decorative rock, and landscaping rock; and
300          (b) consolidated rock that:
301          (i) is not associated with another deposit of minerals;
302          (ii) is or may be extracted from land; and
303          (iii) is put to uses similar to the uses of sand, gravel, and other aggregates.
304          [(11)] (15) "Mining protection area" means land where a vested mining use occurs,
305     including each surface or subsurface land or mineral estate that a mine operator with a vested
306     mining use owns or controls.
307          [(12)] (16) "Mining use":
308          (a) means:
309          (i) the full range of activities, from prospecting and exploration to reclamation and
310     closure, associated with the exploitation of a mineral deposit; and
311          (ii) the use of the surface and subsurface and groundwater and surface water of an area
312     in connection with the activities described in Subsection [(12)] (16)(a)(i) that have been, are
313     being, or will be conducted; and
314          (b) includes, whether conducted on-site or off-site:
315          (i) any sampling, staking, surveying, exploration, or development activity;
316          (ii) any drilling, blasting, excavating, or tunneling;
317          (iii) the removal, transport, treatment, deposition, and reclamation of overburden,
318     development rock, tailings, and other waste material;
319          (iv) any removal, transportation, extraction, beneficiation, or processing of ore;
320          (v) any smelting, refining, autoclaving, or other primary or secondary processing
321     operation;
322          (vi) the recovery of any mineral left in residue from a previous extraction or processing
323     operation;
324          (vii) a mining activity that is identified in a work plan or permitting document;
325          (viii) the use, operation, maintenance, repair, replacement, or alteration of a building,
326     structure, facility, equipment, machine, tool, or other material or property that results from or is
327     used in a surface or subsurface mining operation or activity;
328          (ix) any accessory, incidental, or ancillary activity or use, both active and passive,
329     including a utility, private way or road, pipeline, land excavation, working, embankment, pond,
330     gravel excavation, mining waste, conveyor, power line, trackage, storage, reserve, passive use
331     area, buffer zone, and power production facility;
332          (x) the construction of a storage, factory, processing, or maintenance facility; and
333          (xi) any activity described in Subsection 40-8-4(14)(a).
334          [(13)] (17) (a) "Municipal" means of or relating to a city or town.
335          (b) "Municipality" means a city or town.
336          [(14)] (18) "New land" means surface or subsurface land or mineral estate that a mine
337     operator gains ownership or control of, whether [or not] that land or mineral estate is included
338     in the mine operator's large mine permit.
339          [(15)] (19) "Off-site" has the same meaning as provided in Section 40-8-4.
340          [(16)] (20) "On-site" has the same meaning as provided in Section 40-8-4.
341          [(17)] (21) "Planning commission" means:
342          (a) a countywide planning commission if the land proposed to be included in the
343     agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure materials
344     protection area is within the unincorporated part of the county and not within a planning
345     advisory area;
346          (b) a planning advisory area planning commission if the land proposed to be included
347     in the agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure
348     materials protection area is within a planning advisory area; or
349          (c) a planning commission of a city or town if the land proposed to be included in the
350     agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure materials
351     protection area is within a city or town.
352          [(18)] (22) "Political subdivision" means a county, city, town, school district, local
353     district, or special service district.
354          [(19)] (23) "Proposal sponsors" means the owners of land in agricultural production
355     [or], industrial use, or critical infrastructure materials operations who are sponsoring the
356     proposal for creating an agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection area[,
357     respectively], or critical infrastructure materials protection area.
358          [(20)] (24) "State agency" means each department, commission, board, council,
359     agency, institution, officer, corporation, fund, division, office, committee, authority, laboratory,
360     library, unit, bureau, panel, or other administrative unit of the state.
361          [(21)] (25) "Unincorporated" means not within a city or town.
362          [(22)] (26) "Vested mining use" means a mining use:
363          (a) by a mine operator; and
364          (b) that existed or was conducted or otherwise engaged in before a political subdivision
365     prohibits, restricts, or otherwise limits a mining use.
366          Section 12. Section 17-41-201 is amended to read:
367          17-41-201. Protection area advisory board.
368          (1) (a) (i) [Each] A county legislative body shall appoint no more than five members
369     from the county's conservation district board of supervisors to serve as the [Agriculture
370     Protection Area Advisory Board] agriculture protection area advisory board.
371          (ii) [Each] A county legislative body shall appoint an industrial protection area
372     advisory board.
373          (iii) Subject to Subsection (1)(b), a county legislative body shall form a critical
374     infrastructure materials protection area advisory board that consists of:
375          (A) the executive director of the Department of Transportation, or the executive
376     director's designee;
377          (B) a local government elected official appointed by the county legislative body;
378          (C) a representative of a local highway authority appointed by the county legislative
379     body;
380          (D) a representative of the critical infrastructure materials industry appointed by the
381     county legislative body; and
382          (E) a representative of the construction industry appointed by the county legislative
383     body.
384          (b) A county legislative body may appoint [the] an advisory board before or after a
385     proposal to create an agriculture protection area or industrial protection area is filed. A county
386     legislative body shall appoint a critical infrastructure materials protection area advisory board
387     only after a proposal to create a critical infrastructure materials protection area is filed.
388          (2) [Each] A member of an advisory board shall serve without salary, but a county
389     legislative body may reimburse members for expenses incurred in the performance of their
390     duties.
391          (3) [Each] An advisory board shall:
392          (a) evaluate proposals for the establishment of [agriculture protection areas or
393     industrial] the relevant protection areas and make recommendations to the applicable
394     legislative body about whether [or not] the proposal should be accepted;
395          (b) provide expert advice to the planning commission and to the applicable legislative
396     body about:
397          (i) the desirability of the proposal;
398          (ii) the nature of agricultural production [or], industrial use, or critical infrastructure
399     materials operations, as the case may be, within the proposed area;
400          (iii) the relation of agricultural production [or], industrial use, or critical infrastructure
401     materials operations, as the case may be, in the area to the county as a whole; and
402          (iv) which agriculture production [or], industrial use, or critical infrastructure materials
403     operations, should be allowed within the [agriculture] relevant protection area [or industrial
404     protection area, respectively]; and
405          (c) perform [all] the other duties required by this chapter.
406          Section 13. Section 17-41-301 is amended to read:
407          17-41-301. Proposal for creation of a protection area.
408          (1) (a) A proposal to create an agriculture protection area [or], an industrial protection
409     area, or critical infrastructure materials protection area may be filed with:
410          (i) the legislative body of the county in which the area is located, if the area is within
411     the unincorporated part of a county; or
412          (ii) the legislative body of the city or town in which the area is located, if the area is
413     within a city or town.
414          (b) A proposal to create a critical infrastructure protection area can only be initiated by
415     the legislative body of the municipality or county. Creation of a critical infrastructure materials
416     protection area is Ŝ→ [an administrative] a legislative ←Ŝ act.
417          [(b)] (c) (i) To be accepted for processing by the applicable legislative body, a proposal
418     under Subsection (1)(a) shall be signed by a majority in number of all owners of real property
419     and the owners of a majority of the land area in agricultural production [or], industrial use, or
420     critical infrastructure materials operations within the proposed [agriculture protection area or
421     industrial] relevant protection area[, respectively].
422          (ii) For purposes of Subsection (1)[(b)](c)(i), the owners of real property shall be
423     determined by the records of the county recorder.
424          (2) The proposal shall identify:
425          (a) the boundaries of the land proposed to become part of [an agriculture protection
426     area or industrial] the relevant protection area;
427          (b) any limits on the types of agriculture production [or], industrial use, or critical
428     infrastructure materials operations to be allowed within the [agriculture protection area or
429     industrial] relevant protection area[, respectively]; and
430          (c) for each parcel of land:
431          (i) the names of the owners of record of the land proposed to be included within the
432     [agriculture protection area or industrial] relevant protection area;
433          (ii) the tax parcel number or account number identifying each parcel; and
434          (iii) the number of acres of each parcel.
435          (3) An agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection area, or critical
436     infrastructure materials protection area may include within its boundaries land used for a
437     roadway, dwelling site, park, or other nonagricultural [or] use, in the case of an industrial
438     protection area, nonindustrial use, or in the case of a critical infrastructure materials protection
439     area, use unrelated to critical infrastructure materials operations, if that land constitutes a
440     minority of the total acreage within the [agriculture protection area or industrial] the relevant
441     protection area[, respectively].
442          (4) A county or municipal legislative body may establish:
443          (a) the manner and form for submission of proposals; and
444          (b) reasonable fees for accepting and processing the proposal.
445          (5) [Each] A county and municipal legislative body shall establish the minimum
446     number of continuous acres that shall be included in an agriculture protection area [or],
447     industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure materials protection area.
448          Section 14. Section 17-41-302 is amended to read:
449          17-41-302. Notice of proposal for creation of protection area -- Responses.
450          (1) [Each] An applicable legislative body shall provide notice of the proposal by:
451          (a) (i) publishing notice[:(A) ] in a newspaper having general circulation within:
452          [(I)] (A) the same county as the land proposed for inclusion within an agriculture
453     protection area [or], industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure materials protection
454     area, as the case may be, if the land is within the unincorporated part of the county; or
455          [(II)] (B) the same city or town as the land proposed for inclusion within an agriculture
456     protection area [or], industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure materials protection
457     area, as the case may be, if the land is within a city or town; and
458          (ii) as required in Section 45-1-101;
459          (b) posting notice at five public places, designated by the county or municipal
460     legislative body, within or near the proposed agriculture protection area [or], industrial
461     protection area, or critical infrastructure materials protection area; and
462          (c) mailing written notice to each owner of land within 1,000 feet of the land proposed
463     for inclusion within an agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection area, or critical
464     infrastructure materials protection area.
465          (2) The notice shall contain:
466          (a) a statement that a proposal for the creation of an agriculture protection area [or],
467     industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure materials protection area has been filed with
468     the applicable legislative body;
469          (b) a statement that the proposal will be open to public inspection in the office of the
470     applicable legislative body;
471          (c) a statement that any person [or entity] affected by the establishment of the area
472     may, within 15 days of the date of the notice, file with the applicable legislative body:
473          (i) written objections to the proposal; or
474          (ii) a written request to modify the proposal to exclude land from or add land to the
475     proposed [agriculture protection area or industrial] protection area[, as the case may be];
476          (d) a statement that the applicable legislative body will submit the proposal to the
477     advisory committee and to the planning commission for review and recommendations;
478          (e) a statement that the applicable legislative body will hold a public hearing to discuss
479     and hear public comment on:
480          (i) the proposal to create the agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection area,
481     or critical infrastructure materials protection area;
482          (ii) the recommendations of the advisory committee and planning commission; and
483          (iii) any requests for modification of the proposal and any objections to the proposal;
484     and
485          (f) a statement indicating the date, time, and place of the public hearing.
486          (3) (a) [Any] A person wishing to modify the proposal for the creation of the
487     agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure materials
488     protection area shall, within 15 days after the date of the notice, file a written request for
489     modification of the proposal, which identifies specifically the land that should be added to or
490     removed from the proposal.
491          (b) [Any] A person wishing to object to the proposal for the creation of the agriculture
492     protection area [or], industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure materials protection
493     area shall, within 15 days after the date of the notice, file a written objection to the creation of
494     the [agriculture protection area or industrial] relevant protection area.
495          Section 15. Section 17-41-303 is amended to read:
496          17-41-303. Review of proposal for creation of protection area.
497          (1) After 15 days from the date of the notice, the applicable legislative body shall refer
498     the proposal and any objections and proposed modifications to the proposal to the advisory
499     committee and planning commission for their review, comments, and recommendations.
500          (2) (a) Within 45 days after receipt of the proposal, the planning commission shall
501     submit a written report to the applicable legislative body that:
502          (i) analyzes and evaluates the effect of the creation of the proposed area on the
503     planning policies and objectives of the county or municipality, as the case may be;
504          (ii) analyzes and evaluates the proposal by applying the criteria contained in Section
505     17-41-305;
506          (iii) recommends any modifications to the land to be included in the proposed
507     agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure materials
508     protection area;
509          (iv) analyzes and evaluates any objections to the proposal; and
510          (v) includes a recommendation to the applicable legislative body either to accept,
511     accept and modify, or reject the proposal.
512          (b) Within 45 days after receipt of the proposal, the advisory board shall submit a
513     written report to the applicable legislative body that:
514          (i) recommends any modifications to the land to be included in the proposed
515     agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure materials
516     protection area;
517          (ii) analyzes and evaluates the proposal by applying the criteria contained in Section
518     17-41-305;
519          (iii) analyzes and evaluates any objections to the proposal; and
520          (iv) includes a recommendation to the applicable legislative body either to accept,
521     accept and modify, or reject the proposal.
522          (c) The applicable legislative body shall consider a failure of the planning commission
523     or advisory committee to submit a written report within the 45 days under Subsection (2)(a) or
524     (b) as a recommendation of that committee to approve the proposal as submitted.
525          Section 16. Section 17-41-304 is amended to read:
526          17-41-304. Public hearing -- Review and action on proposal.
527          (1) After receipt of the written reports from the advisory committee and planning
528     commission, or after the 45 days have expired, whichever is earlier, the county or municipal
529     legislative body shall:
530          (a) schedule a public hearing;
531          (b) provide notice of the public hearing by:
532          (i) publishing notice:
533          (A) in a newspaper having general circulation within:
534          (I) the same county as the land proposed for inclusion within the agriculture protection
535     area [or], industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure materials protection area, if the
536     land is within the unincorporated part of the county; or
537          (II) the same city or town as the land proposed for inclusion within an agriculture
538     protection area [or], industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure materials protection
539     area, if the land is within a city or town; and
540          (B) on the Utah Public Notice Website created in Section 63F-1-701;
541          (ii) posting notice at five public places, designated by the applicable legislative body,
542     within or near the proposed agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection area, or
543     critical infrastructure materials protection area; and
544          (iii) mailing written notice to each owner of land within 1,000 feet of the land proposed
545     for inclusion within an agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection area, or critical
546     infrastructure materials protection area; and
547          (c) ensure that the notice includes:
548          (i) the time, date, and place of the public hearing on the proposal;
549          (ii) a description of the proposed agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection
550     area, or critical infrastructure materials protection area;
551          (iii) any proposed modifications to the proposed agriculture protection area [or],
552     industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure materials protection area;
553          (iv) a summary of the recommendations of the advisory committee and planning
554     commission; and
555          (v) a statement that interested persons may appear at the public hearing and speak in
556     favor of or against the proposal, any proposed modifications to the proposal, or the
557     recommendations of the advisory committee and planning commission.
558          (2) The applicable legislative body shall:
559          (a) convene the public hearing at the time, date, and place specified in the notice; and
560          (b) take [verbal] oral or written testimony from interested persons.
561          (3) (a) Within 120 days of the submission of the proposal, the applicable legislative
562     body shall approve, modify and approve, or reject the proposal.
563          (b) The creation of an agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection area, or
564     critical infrastructure materials protection area is effective at the earlier of:
565          (i) the applicable legislative body's approval of a proposal or modified proposal; or
566          (ii) 120 days after submission of a proposal complying with Subsection 17-41-301(2) if
567     the applicable legislative body has failed to approve or reject the proposal within that time.
568          (c) Notwithstanding Subsection (3)(b), a critical infrastructure materials protection area
569     is effective only if the applicable legislative body, at its discretion, approves a proposal or
570     modified proposal.
571          (4) (a) [In order to] To give constructive notice of the existence of the agriculture
572     protection area [or], industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure materials protection
573     area to all persons who have, may acquire, or may seek to acquire an interest in land in or
574     adjacent to the [agriculture protection area or industrial] relevant protection area[,
575     respectively,] within 10 days of the creation of [an agriculture protection area or industrial] the
576     relevant protection area, the applicable legislative body shall file an executed document
577     containing a legal description of the [agriculture protection area or industrial] relevant
578     protection area[, as the case may be,] with:
579          (i) the county recorder of deeds; and
580          (ii) the affected planning commission.
581          (b) If the legal description of the property to be included in the [agriculture protection
582     area or industrial] relevant protection area is available through the county recorder's office, the
583     applicable legislative body shall use that legal description in its executed document required in
584     Subsection (4)(a).
585          (5) Within 10 days of the recording of the agriculture protection area, the applicable
586     legislative body shall:
587          (a) send written notification to the commissioner of agriculture and food that the
588     agriculture protection area has been created; and
589          (b) include in the notification:
590          (i) the number of landowners owning land within the agriculture protection area;
591          (ii) the total acreage of the area;
592          (iii) the date of approval of the area; and
593          (iv) the date of recording.
594          (6) The applicable legislative body's failure to record the notice required under
595     Subsection (4) or to send the written notification under Subsection (5) does not invalidate the
596     creation of an agriculture protection area.
597          (7) The applicable legislative body may consider the cost of recording notice under
598     Subsection (4) and the cost of sending notification under Subsection (5) in establishing a fee
599     under Subsection 17-41-301(4)(b).
600          Section 17. Section 17-41-305 is amended to read:
601          17-41-305. Criteria to be applied in evaluating a proposal for the creation of a
602     protection area.
603          In evaluating a proposal and in determining whether or not to create or recommend the
604     creation of an agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection area, or critical
605     infrastructure materials protection area, the advisory committee, planning commission, and
606     applicable legislative body shall apply the following criteria:
607          (1) whether or not the land is currently being used for agriculture production [or for
608     an], industrial use, or critical infrastructure materials operations, as the case may be;
609          (2) whether or not the land is zoned for agriculture use [or], industrial use, or critical
610     infrastructure materials operations, as the case may be;
611          (3) whether or not the land is viable for agriculture production [or], industrial use, or
612     critical infrastructure materials operations, as the case may be;
613          (4) the extent and nature of existing or proposed farm improvements [or], the extent
614     and nature of existing or proposed improvements to or expansion of the industrial use, or the
615     extent and nature of existing or proposed improvements to or expansion of critical
616     infrastructure materials operations, as the case may be; and
617          (5) (a) in the case of an agriculture protection area, anticipated trends in agricultural
618     and technological conditions; [or]
619          (b) in the case of an industrial protection area, anticipated trends in technological
620     conditions applicable to the industrial use of the land in question[.]; or
621          (c) in the case of a critical infrastructure materials protection area, anticipated trends in
622     technological conditions applicable to the critical infrastructure materials operations of the land
623     in question.
624          Section 18. Section 17-41-306 is amended to read:
625          17-41-306. Adding land to or removing land from a protection area -- Removing
626     land from a mining protection area.
627          (1) (a) Any owner may add land to an existing agriculture protection area [or],
628     industrial protection area, critical infrastructure materials protection area, as the case may be,
629     by:
630          (i) filing a proposal with:
631          (A) the county legislative body, if the [agriculture protection area or industrial] relevant
632     protection area and the land to be added are within the unincorporated part of the county; or
633          (B) the municipal legislative body, if the [agriculture protection area or industrial]
634     relevant protection area and the land to be added are within a city or town; and
635          (ii) obtaining the approval of the applicable legislative body for the addition of the land
636     to the relevant protection area.
637          (b) The applicable legislative body shall:
638          (i) comply with the provisions for creating an agriculture protection area [or], industrial
639     protection area, critical infrastructure materials protection area, as the case may be, in
640     determining whether [or not] to accept the proposal[.]; and
641          (ii) for purposes of a critical infrastructure materials protection area, request a copy of
642     the applicable Division of Air Quality approval order.
643          (c) The applicable legislative body may deny the expansion if it is contrary to the
644     Division of Air Quality's approval order.
645          (2) (a) [Any] An owner of land within an agriculture protection area [or], industrial
646     protection area, or critical infrastructure materials protection area may remove any or all of the
647     land from the [agriculture protection area or industrial] relevant protection area, [respectively,]
648     by filing a petition for removal with the applicable legislative body.
649          (b) (i) The applicable legislative body:
650          (A) shall:
651          (I) grant the petition for removal of land from[ an agriculture protection area or
652     industrial] the relevant protection area, [as the case may be,] even if removal of the land would
653     result in an agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure
654     materials protection area of less than the number of acres established by the applicable
655     legislative body as the minimum under Section 17-41-301; and
656          (II) [in order] to give constructive notice of the removal to all persons who have, may
657     acquire, or may seek to acquire an interest in land in or adjacent to the agriculture protection
658     area [or], industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure materials protection area and the
659     land removed from the [agriculture protection area or industrial] relevant protection area, file a
660     legal description of the revised boundaries of the [agriculture protection area or industrial]
661     relevant protection area with the county recorder of deeds and the affected planning
662     commission; and
663          (B) may not charge a fee in connection with a petition to remove land from an
664     agriculture protection area [or], an industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure materials
665     protection area.
666          (ii) The remaining land in the agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection
667     area, or critical infrastructure materials protection area is still an agriculture protection area
668     [or], industrial protection area[, respectively], or critical infrastructure materials protection
669     area.
670          (iii) (A) A critical infrastructure materials operator may abandon some or all of its
671     critical infrastructure materials operations use only as provided in this Subsection (2)(b)(iii).
672          (B) To abandon some or all of a critical infrastructure materials operations, a critical
673     infrastructure materials operator shall record a written declaration of abandonment with the
674     recorder of the county in which the critical infrastructure materials operations being abandoned
675     is located.
676          (C) The written declaration of abandonment under this Subsection (2)(b)(iii) shall
677     specify the critical infrastructure materials operations or the portion of the critical infrastructure
678     materials operations being abandoned.
679          (3) (a) If a municipality annexes any land that is part of an agriculture protection area
680     [or], industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure materials protection area located in the
681     unincorporated part of the county, the county legislative body shall, within 30 days after the
682     land is annexed, review the feasibility of that land remaining in the [agriculture protection area
683     or industrial] relevant protection area according to the procedures and requirements of Section
684     17-41-307.
685          (b) The county legislative body shall remove the annexed land from the [agriculture
686     protection area or industrial] relevant protection area[, as the case may be,] if:
687          (i) the county legislative body concludes, after the review under Section 17-41-307,
688     that removal is appropriate; and
689          (ii) the owners of all the annexed land that is within the [agriculture protection area or
690     industrial] relevant protection area consent in writing to the removal.
691          (c) Removal of land from an agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection area,
692     or critical infrastructure materials protection area under this Subsection (3) does not affect
693     whether that land may be:
694          (i) included in a proposal under Section 17-41-301 to create an agriculture protection
695     area [or], industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure materials protection area within
696     the municipality; or
697          (ii) added to an existing agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection area, or
698     critical infrastructure materials protection area within the municipality under Subsection (1).
699          (4) A mine operator that owns or controls land within a mining protection area may
700     remove any or all of the land from the mining protection area by filing a notice of removal with
701     the legislative body of the county in which the land is located.
702          Section 19. Section 17-41-307 is amended to read:
703          17-41-307. Review of protection areas.
704          (1) In the 20th calendar year after its creation under this part, [each] an agriculture
705     protection area [or], industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure materials protection
706     area, as the case may be, shall be reviewed, under the provisions of this section, by:
707          (a) the county legislative body, if the [agriculture protection area or industrial] relevant
708     protection area is within the unincorporated part of the county; or
709          (b) the municipal legislative body, if the [agriculture protection area or industrial]
710     relevant protection area is within the municipality.
711          (2) (a) In the 20th year, the applicable legislative body may:
712          (i) request the planning commission and advisory board to submit recommendations
713     about whether the agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection area, or critical
714     infrastructure materials protection area, as the case may be, should be continued, modified, or
715     terminated;
716          (ii) at least 120 days before the end of the calendar year, hold a public hearing to
717     discuss whether the [agriculture protection area or industrial] relevant protection area, [as the
718     case may be,] should be continued, modified, or terminated;
719          (iii) give notice of the hearing using the same procedures required by Section
720     17-41-302; and
721          (iv) after the public hearing, continue, modify, or terminate the [agriculture protection
722     area or industrial] relevant protection area.
723          (b) If the applicable legislative body modifies or terminates the agriculture protection
724     area [or], industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure materials protection area, [it] the
725     applicable legislative body shall file an executed document containing the legal description of
726     the [agriculture protection area or industrial] relevant protection area, [respectively,] with the
727     county recorder of deeds.
728          (3) If the applicable legislative body fails affirmatively to continue, modify, or
729     terminate the agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure
730     materials protection area, as the case may be, in the 20th calendar year, the [agriculture
731     protection area or industrial] relevant protection area is considered to be reauthorized for
732     another 20 years.
733          Section 20. Section 17-41-402 is amended to read:
734          17-41-402. Limitations on local regulations.
735          (1) A political subdivision within which an agriculture protection area [or], industrial
736     protection area, or critical infrastructure materials protection area is created or with a mining
737     protection area within its boundary shall encourage the continuity, development, and viability
738     of agriculture use, industrial use, critical infrastructure materials operations, or mining use,
739     [respectively,] within the relevant protection area by not enacting a local law, ordinance, or
740     regulation that, unless the law, ordinance, or regulation bears a direct relationship to public
741     health or safety, would unreasonably restrict:
742          (a) in the case of an agriculture protection area, a farm structure or farm practice [or,];
743          (b) in the case of an industrial protection area, an industrial use of the land within the
744     area [or,];
745          (c) in the case of a critical infrastructure materials protection area, critical infrastructure
746     materials operations; or
747          (d) in the case of a mining protection area, a mining use within the protection area
748     [unless the law, ordinance, or regulation bears a direct relationship to public health or safety].
749          (2) A political subdivision may not change the zoning designation of or a zoning
750     regulation affecting land within an agriculture protection area unless the political subdivision
751     receives written approval for the change from all the landowners within the agriculture
752     protection area affected by the change.
753          (3) Except as provided by Section 19-4-113, a political subdivision may not change the
754     zoning designation of or a zoning regulation affecting land within an industrial protection area
755     unless the political subdivision receives written approval for the change from all the
756     landowners within the industrial protection area affected by the change.
757          (4) A political subdivision may not change the zoning designation of or a zoning
758     regulation affecting land within a critical infrastructure materials protection area unless the
759     political subdivision receives written approval for the change from each critical infrastructure
760     materials operator within the relevant area.
761          [(4)] (5) A political subdivision may not change the zoning designation of or a zoning
762     regulation affecting land within a mining protection area unless the political subdivision
763     receives written approval for the change from each mine operator within the area.
764          (6) A county, city, or town may not:
765          (a) adopt, enact, or amend an existing land use regulation, ordinance, or regulation that
766     would prohibit, restrict, regulate, or otherwise limit critical infrastructure materials operations,
767     including vested critical infrastructure materials operations as defined in Section 10-9a-901 or
768     17-27a-1001; or
769          (b) initiate proceedings to amend the county's, city's, or town's land use ordinances as
770     described in Subsection 10-9a-509(1)(a)(ii) or 17-27a-508(1)(a)(ii).
771          Section 21. Section 17-41-403 is amended to read:
772          17-41-403. Nuisances.
773          (1) [Each] A political subdivision shall ensure that any of [its] the political
774     subdivision's laws or ordinances that define or prohibit a public nuisance exclude from the
775     definition or prohibition:
776          (a) for an agriculture protection area, any agricultural activity or operation within an
777     agriculture protection area conducted using sound agricultural practices unless that activity or
778     operation bears a direct relationship to public health or safety; [or]
779          (b) for an industrial protection area, any industrial use of the land within the industrial
780     protection area that is consistent with sound practices applicable to the industrial use, unless
781     that use bears a direct relationship to public health or safety[.]; or
782          (c) for a critical infrastructure materials protection area, any critical infrastructure
783     materials operations on the land within the critical infrastructure materials protection area that
784     is consistent with sound practices applicable to the critical infrastructure materials operations,
785     unless that use bears a direct relationship to public health or safety.
786          (2) In a civil action for nuisance or a criminal action for public nuisance under Section
787     76-10-803, it is a complete defense if the action involves agricultural activities and those
788     agricultural activities were:
789          (a) conducted within an agriculture protection area; and
790          (b) not in violation of any federal, state, or local law or regulation relating to the
791     alleged nuisance or were conducted according to sound agricultural practices.
792          (3) (a) A vested mining use undertaken in conformity with applicable federal and state
793     law and regulations is presumed to be operating within sound mining practices.
794          (b) A vested mining use that is consistent with sound mining practices:
795          (i) is presumed to be reasonable; and
796          (ii) may not constitute a private or public nuisance under Section 76-10-803.
797          (c) A vested mining use in operation for more than three years may not be considered
798     to have become a private or public nuisance because of a subsequent change in the condition of
799     land within the vicinity of the vested mining use.
800          (4) (a) For any new subdivision development located in whole or in part within 300
801     feet of the boundary of an agriculture protection area, the owner of the development shall
802     provide notice on any plat filed with the county recorder the following notice:
803     
"Agriculture Protection Area

804          This property is located in the vicinity of an established agriculture protection area in
805     which normal agricultural uses and activities have been afforded the highest priority use
806     status. It can be anticipated that such agricultural uses and activities may now or in the
807     future be conducted on property included in the agriculture protection area. The use
808     and enjoyment of this property is expressly conditioned on acceptance of any
809     annoyance or inconvenience which may result from such normal agricultural uses and
810     activities."
811          (b) For any new subdivision development located in whole or in part within 1,000 feet
812     of the boundary of an industrial protection area, the owner of the development shall provide
813     notice on any plat filed with the county recorder the following notice:
814     
"Industrial Protection Area

815          This property is located in the vicinity of an established industrial protection area in
816     which normal industrial uses and activities have been afforded the highest priority use
817     status. It can be anticipated that such industrial uses and activities may now or in the
818     future be conducted on property included in the industrial protection area. The use and
819     enjoyment of this property is expressly conditioned on acceptance of any annoyance or
820     inconvenience which may result from such normal industrial uses and activities."
821          (c) For any new subdivision development located in whole or in part within 1,000 feet
822     of the boundary of a critical infrastructure materials protection area, the owner of the
823     development shall provide notice on any plat filed with the county recorder the following
824     notice:
825     
"Critical Infrastructure Materials Protection Area

826          This property is located in the vicinity of an established critical infrastructure materials
827     protection area in which critical infrastructure materials operations have been afforded
828     the highest priority use status. It can be anticipated that such operations may now or in
829     the future be conducted on property included in the critical infrastructure materials
830     protection area. The use and enjoyment of this property is expressly conditioned on
831     acceptance of any annoyance or inconvenience which may result from such normal
832     critical infrastructure materials operations."
833          [(c)] (d) For any new subdivision development located in whole or in part within 1,000
834     feet of the boundary of a mining protection area, the owner of the development shall provide
835     notice on any plat filed with the county recorder the following notice:
836          "This property is located within the vicinity of an established mining protection area in
837     which normal mining uses and activities have been afforded the highest priority use
838     status. It can be anticipated that the mining uses and activities may now or in the future
839     be conducted on property included in the mining protection area. The use and
840     enjoyment of this property is expressly conditioned on acceptance of any annoyance or
841     inconvenience that may result from the normal mining uses and activities."
842          Section 22. Section 17-41-404 is amended to read:
843          17-41-404. Policy of state agencies.
844          [Each] A state agency shall encourage the continuity, development, and viability of
845     agriculture within agriculture protection areas [and], industrial uses with industrial protection
846     areas, and critical infrastructure materials operations within critical infrastructure protection
847     areas by:
848          (1) not enacting rules that would impose unreasonable restrictions on farm structures or
849     farm practices within the agriculture protection area [or], on industrial uses and practices
850     within the industrial protection area, or on critical infrastructure materials operations with a
851     critical infrastructure materials protection area, unless those laws, ordinances, or regulations
852     bear a direct relationship to public health or safety or are required by federal law; and
853          (2) modifying existing rules that would impose unreasonable restrictions on farm
854     structures or farm practices within the agriculture protection area [or], on industrial uses and
855     activities within the industrial protection area, or on critical infrastructure materials operations
856     within a critical infrastructure materials protection area, unless those laws, ordinances, or
857     regulations bear a direct relationship to public health or safety or are required by federal law.
858          Section 23. Section 17-41-405 is amended to read:
859          17-41-405. Eminent domain restrictions.
860          (1) A political subdivision having or exercising eminent domain powers may not
861     condemn for any purpose any land within an agriculture protection area that is being used for
862     agricultural production [or any], land within an industrial protection area that is being put to an
863     industrial use, or land within a critical infrastructure materials protection area, unless [it has
864     obtained] the political subdivision obtains approval, according to the procedures and
865     requirements of this section, from the applicable legislative body and the advisory board.
866          (2) Any condemnor wishing to condemn property within an agriculture protection area
867     [or], industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure materials protection area shall file a
868     notice of condemnation with the applicable legislative body and the [agriculture protection area
869     or industrial] relevant protection area's advisory board at least 30 days before filing an eminent
870     domain complaint.
871          (3) The applicable legislative body and the advisory board shall:
872          (a) hold a joint public hearing on the proposed condemnation at a location within the
873     county in which the [agriculture protection area or industrial] relevant protection area is
874     located;
875          (b) publish notice of the time, date, place, and purpose of the public hearing:
876          (i) in a newspaper of general circulation within the [agriculture protection area or
877     industrial] relevant protection area[, as the case may be]; and
878          (ii) on the Utah Public Notice Website created in Section 63F-1-701; and
879          (c) post notice of the time, date, place, and purpose of the public hearing in five
880     conspicuous public places, designated by the applicable legislative body, within or near the
881     [agriculture protection area or industrial] relevant protection area[, as the case may be].
882          (4) (a) If the condemnation is for highway purposes or for the disposal of solid or
883     liquid waste materials, the applicable legislative body and the advisory board may approve the
884     condemnation only if there is no reasonable and prudent alternative to the use of the land
885     within the agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure
886     materials protection area for the project.
887          (b) If the condemnation is for any other purpose, the applicable legislative body and the
888     advisory board may approve the condemnation only if:
889          (i) the proposed condemnation would not have an unreasonably adverse effect upon the
890     preservation and enhancement of:
891          (A) agriculture within the agriculture protection area [or of];
892          (B) the industrial use within the industrial protection area; or
893          (C) critical infrastructure materials operations within the critical infrastructure
894     materials protection area; or
895          (ii) there is no reasonable and prudent alternative to the use of the land within the
896     [agriculture protection area or industrial] the relevant protection area for the project.
897          (5) (a) Within 60 days after receipt of the notice of condemnation, the applicable
898     legislative body and the advisory board shall approve or reject the proposed condemnation.
899          (b) If the applicable legislative body and the advisory board fail to act within the 60
900     days or such further time as the applicable legislative body establishes, the condemnation shall
901     be considered rejected.
902          (6) The applicable legislative body or the advisory board may request the county or
903     municipal attorney to bring an action to enjoin any condemnor from violating any provisions of
904     this section.
905          Section 24. Section 17-41-406 is amended to read:
906          17-41-406. Restrictions on state development projects.
907          (1) [Each] A state agency that plans any development project that might affect land
908     within an agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure
909     materials protection area, shall submit [its] the state agency's development plan to:
910          (a) the advisory board of the [agriculture protection area or industrial] relevant
911     protection area[, respectively]; and
912          (b) in the case of an agriculture protection area, the commissioner of agriculture and
913     food.
914          (2) The commissioner of agriculture and food, in the case of an agriculture protection
915     area, and the advisory board shall:
916          (a) review the state agency's proposed development plan; and
917          (b) recommend any modifications to the development project that would protect the
918     integrity of the agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection area, or critical
919     infrastructure materials protection area, as the case may be, or that would protect the
920     agriculture protection area from nonfarm encroachment [or], the industrial protection area from
921     nonindustrial encroachment, or the critical infrastructure materials protection area from
922     encroachment of uses unrelated to critical infrastructure materials operations.
923          (3) [Each] A state agency and political subdivision of the state that designates or
924     proposes to designate a transportation corridor shall:
925          (a) consider:
926          (i) whether the transportation corridor would:
927          (A) be located on land that is included within an agriculture protection area; or
928          (B) interfere with agriculture production activities on land within an agriculture
929     protection area; and
930          (ii) each other reasonably comparable alternative to the placement of the corridor on
931     land within an agriculture protection area; and
932          (b) make reasonable efforts to minimize or eliminate any detrimental impact on
933     agriculture that may result from the designation of a transportation corridor.
934          Section 25. Section 76-10-803 is amended to read:
935          76-10-803. "Public nuisance" defined -- Agricultural operations -- Critical
936     infrastructure materials operations.
937          (1) A public nuisance is a crime against the order and economy of the state and consists
938     in unlawfully doing any act or omitting to perform any duty, which act or omission:
939          (a) annoys, injures, or endangers the comfort, repose, health, or safety of three or more
940     persons;
941          (b) offends public decency;
942          (c) unlawfully interferes with, obstructs, or tends to obstruct, or renders dangerous for
943     passage, any lake, stream, canal, or basin, or any public park, square, street, or highway;
944          (d) is a nuisance as [defined] described in Section 78B-6-1107; or
945          (e) in any way renders three or more persons insecure in life or the use of property.
946          (2) An act which affects three or more persons in any of the ways specified in this
947     section is still a nuisance regardless of the extent to which the annoyance or damage inflicted
948     on individuals is unequal.
949          (3) (a) Activities conducted in the normal and ordinary course of agricultural
950     operations, as defined in Subsection 78B-6-1101(7), and conducted in accordance with sound
951     agricultural practices are presumed to be reasonable and not constitute a public nuisance under
952     Subsection (1).
953          (b) Agricultural operations undertaken in conformity with federal, state, and local laws
954     and regulations, including zoning ordinances, are presumed to be operating within sound
955     agricultural practices.
956          (4) (a) Activities conducted in the normal and ordinary course of critical infrastructure
957     materials operations, as defined in Subsection 78B-6-1101(8), and conducted in accordance
958     with sound critical infrastructure materials practices are presumed to be reasonable and not
959     constitute a public nuisance under Subsection (1).
960          (b) Critical infrastructure materials operations undertaken in conformity with federal,
961     state, and local laws and regulations, including zoning ordinances, are presumed to be
962     operating within sound critical infrastructure materials operations.
963          Section 26. Section 78B-6-1101 is amended to read:
964          78B-6-1101. Definitions -- Nuisance -- Right of action.
965          (1) A nuisance is anything which is injurious to health, indecent, offensive to the
966     senses, or an obstruction to the free use of property, so as to interfere with the comfortable
967     enjoyment of life or property. A nuisance may be the subject of an action.
968          (2) A nuisance may include the following:
969          (a) drug houses and drug dealing as provided in Section 78B-6-1107;
970          (b) gambling as provided in Title 76, Chapter 10, Part 11, Gambling;
971          (c) criminal activity committed in concert with two or more persons as provided in
972     Section 76-3-203.1;
973          (d) criminal activity committed for the benefit of, at the direction of, or in association
974     with any criminal street gang as defined in Section 76-9-802;
975          (e) criminal activity committed to gain recognition, acceptance, membership, or
976     increased status with a criminal street gang as defined in Section 76-9-802;
977          (f) party houses which frequently create conditions defined in Subsection (1); and
978          (g) prostitution as provided in Title 76, Chapter 10, Part 13, Prostitution.
979          (3) A nuisance under this part includes tobacco smoke that drifts into any residential
980     unit a person rents, leases, or owns, from another residential or commercial unit and the smoke:
981          (a) drifts in more than once in each of two or more consecutive seven-day periods; and
982          (b) creates any of the conditions under Subsection (1).
983          (4) Subsection (3) does not apply to:
984          (a) residential rental units available for temporary rental, such as for vacations, or
985     available for only 30 or fewer days at a time; or
986          (b) hotel or motel rooms.
987          (5) Subsection (3) does not apply to any unit that is part of a timeshare development, as
988     defined in Section 57-19-2, or subject to a timeshare interest as defined in Section 57-19-2.
989          (6) An action may be brought by any person whose property is injuriously affected, or
990     whose personal enjoyment is lessened by the nuisance.
991          (7) "Agricultural operation" means any activity engaged in the commercial production
992     of crops, orchards, aquaculture, livestock, poultry, livestock products, poultry products, and the
993     facilities, equipment, and property used to facilitate the activity.
994          (8) "Critical infrastructure materials operations" means the same as that term is defined
995     in Section 10-9a-901.
996          [(8)] (9) "Manufacturing facility" means any factory, plant, or other facility including
997     its appurtenances, where the form of raw materials, processed materials, commodities, or other
998     physical objects is converted or otherwise changed into other materials, commodities, or
999     physical objects or where such materials, commodities, or physical objects are combined to
1000     form a new material, commodity, or physical object.
1001          Section 27. Section 78B-6-1115 is enacted to read:
1002          78B-6-1115. Critical infrastructure materials operations -- Nuisance liability.
1003          (1) Activities conducted in the normal and ordinary course of critical infrastructure
1004     materials operations or conducted in accordance with sound practices are presumed to be
1005     reasonable and not constitute a nuisance.
1006          (2) Critical infrastructure materials operations undertaken in conformity with federal,
1007     state, and local laws and regulations, including zoning ordinances, are presumed to be
1008     operating within sound critical infrastructure materials practices.