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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
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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:
79          (a) a political subdivision prohibits, restricts, or otherwise limits the critical
80     infrastructure materials operations; and
81          (b) January 1, 2019.
82          Section 2. Section 10-9a-902 is enacted to read:
83          10-9a-902. Vested critical infrastructure materials operations -- Conclusive
84     presumption.
85          (1) (a) Critical infrastructure materials operations operating in accordance with a legal
86     nonconforming use or a permit issued by the municipality are conclusively presumed to be
87     vested critical infrastructure materials operations if the critical infrastructure materials
88     operations permitted by the municipality, existed or was conducted or otherwise engaged in
89     before January 1, 2019 and before when a political subdivision prohibits, restricts, or otherwise
90     limits the critical infrastructure materials operations.
91          (b) A person claiming that a vested critical infrastructure materials operations has been
92     established has the burden of proof to show by the preponderance of the evidence that the
93     vested critical infrastructure materials operations has been established.
94          (2) A vested critical infrastructure materials operations:
95          (a) runs with the land; and
96          (b) may be changed to another critical infrastructure materials operations conducted
97     within the scope of a legal nonconforming use or the permit for the vested critical infrastructure
98     materials operations without losing its status as a vested critical infrastructure materials
99     operations.
100          Section 3. Section 10-9a-903 is enacted to read:
101          10-9a-903. Rights of a critical infrastructure materials operator with a vested
102     critical infrastructure materials operations.
103          Notwithstanding a political subdivision's prohibition, restriction, or other limitation on
104     a critical infrastructure materials operations adopted after the establishment of the critical
105     infrastructure materials operations, the rights of a critical infrastructure materials operator with
106     vested critical infrastructure materials operations include the right to:
107          (1) use, operate, construct, reconstruct, restore, maintain, repair, alter, substitute,
108     modernize, upgrade, and replace equipment, processes, facilities, and buildings; and
109          (2) discontinue, suspend, terminate, deactivate, or continue and reactivate, temporarily
110     or permanently, all or any part of the critical infrastructure materials operations.
111          Section 4. Section 10-9a-904 is enacted to read:
112          10-9a-904. Notice.
113          For any new subdivision development located in whole or in part within 1,000 feet of
114     the boundary of a vested critical infrastructure materials operations, the owner of the
115     development shall provide notice on any plat filed with the county recorder the following
116     notice:
117          "Vested Critical Infrastructure Materials Operations
118          This property is located in the vicinity of an established vested critical infrastructure
119     materials operations in which critical infrastructure materials operations have been afforded the
120     highest priority use status. It can be anticipated that such operations may now or in the future
121     be conducted on property included in the critical infrastructure materials protection area. The
122     use and enjoyment of this property is expressly conditioned on acceptance of any annoyance or
123     inconvenience that may result from such normal critical infrastructure materials operations."
124          Section 5. Section 10-9a-905 is enacted to read:
125          10-9a-905. Abandonment of a vested critical infrastructure materials operations.
126          (1) A critical infrastructure materials operator may abandon some or all of a vested
127     critical infrastructure materials operations use only as provided in this section.
128          (2) To abandon some or all of a vested critical infrastructure materials operations, a
129     critical infrastructure materials operator shall record a written declaration of abandonment with
130     the recorder of the county in which the vested critical infrastructure materials operations being
131     abandoned is located.
132          (3) The written declaration of abandonment under Subsection (2) shall specify the
133     vested critical infrastructure materials operations or the portion of the vested critical
134     infrastructure materials operations being abandoned.
135          Section 6. Section 17-27a-1001 is enacted to read:
136     
Part 10. Vested Critical Infrastructure Materials Operations

137          17-27a-1001. Definitions.
138          As used in this part:
139          (1) "Critical infrastructure materials" means sand, gravel, or rock aggregate.
140          (2) "Critical infrastructure materials operations" means the extraction, excavation,
141     processing, or reprocessing of critical infrastructure materials.
142          (3) "Critical infrastructure materials operator" means a natural person, corporation,
143     association, partnership, receiver, trustee, executor, administrator, guardian, fiduciary, agent, or
144     other organization or representative, either public or private, including a successor, assign,
145     affiliate, subsidiary, and related parent company, that:
146          (a) owns, controls, or manages a critical infrastructure materials operations; and
147          (b) has produced commercial quantities of critical infrastructure materials from the
148     critical infrastructure materials operations.
149          (4) "Vested critical infrastructure materials operations" means critical infrastructure
150     materials operations operating in accordance with a legal nonconforming use or a permit issued
151     by the county that existed or was conducted or otherwise engaged in before:
152          (a) a political subdivision prohibits, restricts, or otherwise limits the critical
153     infrastructure materials operations; and
154          (b) January 1, 2019.
155          Section 7. Section 17-27a-1002 is enacted to read:
156          17-27a-1002. Vested critical infrastructure materials operations -- Conclusive
157     presumption.
158          (1) (a) Critical infrastructure materials operations operating in accordance with a legal
159     nonconforming use or a permit issued by the county are conclusively presumed to be vested
160     critical infrastructure materials operations if the critical infrastructure materials operations
161     permitted by the county, existed or was conducted or otherwise engaged in before January 1,
162     2019 and before when a political subdivision prohibits, restricts, or otherwise limits the critical
163     infrastructure materials operations.
164          (b) A person claiming that a vested critical infrastructure materials operations has been
165     established has the burden of proof to show by the preponderance of the evidence that the
166     vested critical infrastructure materials operations has been established.
167          (2) A vested critical infrastructure materials operations:
168          (a) runs with the land; and
169          (b) may be changed to another critical infrastructure materials operations conducted
170     within the scope of a legal nonconforming use or the permit for the vested critical infrastructure
171     materials operations without losing its status as a vested critical infrastructure materials
172     operations.
173          Section 8. Section 17-27a-1003 is enacted to read:
174          17-27a-1003. Rights of a critical infrastructure materials operator with a vested
175     critical infrastructure materials operations.
176          Notwithstanding a political subdivision's prohibition, restriction, or other limitation on
177     a critical infrastructure materials operations adopted after the establishment of the critical
178     infrastructure materials operations, the rights of a critical infrastructure materials operator with
179     vested critical infrastructure materials operations include the right to:
180          (1) use, operate, construct, reconstruct, restore, maintain, repair, alter, substitute,
181     modernize, upgrade, and replace equipment, processes, facilities, and buildings; and
182          (2) discontinue, suspend, terminate, deactivate, or continue and reactivate, temporarily
183     or permanently, all or any part of the critical infrastructure materials operations.
184          Section 9. Section 17-27a-1004 is enacted to read:
185          17-27a-1004. Notice.
186          For any new subdivision development located in whole or in part within 1,000 feet of
187     the boundary of a vested critical infrastructure materials operations, the owner of the
188     development shall provide notice on any plat filed with the county recorder the following
189     notice:
190          "Vested Critical Infrastructure Materials Operations
191          This property is located in the vicinity of an established vested critical infrastructure
192     materials operations in which critical infrastructure materials operations have been afforded the
193     highest priority use status. It can be anticipated that such operations may now or in the future
194     be conducted on property included in the critical infrastructure materials operations. The use
195     and enjoyment of this property is expressly conditioned on acceptance of any annoyance or
196     inconvenience that may result from such normal critical infrastructure materials operations."
197          Section 10. Section 17-27a-1005 is enacted to read:
198          17-27a-1005. Abandonment of a vested critical infrastructure materials
199     operations.
200          (1) A critical infrastructure materials operator may abandon some or all of a vested
201     critical infrastructure materials operations use only as provided in this section.
202          (2) To abandon some or all of a vested critical infrastructure materials operations, a
203     critical infrastructure materials operator shall record a written declaration of abandonment with
204     the recorder of the county in which the vested critical infrastructure materials operations being
205     abandoned is located.
206          (3) The written declaration of abandonment under Subsection (2) shall specify the
207     vested critical infrastructure materials operations or the portion of the vested critical
208     infrastructure materials operations being abandoned.
209          Section 11. Section 17-41-101 is amended to read:
210     
CHAPTER 41. AGRICULTURE, INDUSTRIAL, OR CRITICAL

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INFRASTRUCTURE MATERIALS PROTECTION AREAS

212          17-41-101. Definitions.
213          As used in this chapter:
214          (1) "Advisory board" means:
215          (a) for an agriculture protection area, the agriculture protection area advisory board
216     created as provided in Section 17-41-201; [and]
217          (b) for an industrial protection area, the industrial protection area advisory board
218     created as provided in Section 17-41-201[.]; and
219          (c) for a critical infrastructure materials protection area, the critical infrastructure
220     materials protection area advisory board created as provided in Section 17-41-201.
221          (2) (a) "Agriculture production" means production for commercial purposes of crops,
222     livestock, and livestock products.
223          (b) "Agriculture production" includes the processing or retail marketing of any crops,
224     livestock, and livestock products when more than 50% of the processed or merchandised
225     products are produced by the farm operator.
226          (3) "Agriculture protection area" means a geographic area created under the authority
227     of this chapter that is granted the specific legal protections contained in this chapter.
228          (4) "Applicable legislative body" means:
229          (a) with respect to a proposed agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection
230     area, or critical infrastructure materials protection area:
231          (i) the legislative body of the county in which the land proposed to be included in [an
232     agriculture protection area or industrial] the relevant protection area is located, if the land is
233     within the unincorporated part of the county; or
234          (ii) the legislative body of the city or town in which the land proposed to be included in
235     [an agriculture protection area or industrial] the relevant protection area is located; and
236          (b) with respect to an existing agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection
237     area, or critical infrastructure materials protection area:
238          (i) the legislative body of the county in which the [agriculture protection area or
239     industrial] relevant protection area is located, if the [agriculture protection area or industrial]
240     relevant protection area is within the unincorporated part of the county; or
241          (ii) the legislative body of the city or town in which the[ agriculture protection area or
242     industrial] relevant protection area is located.
243          (5) "Board" means the Board of Oil, Gas, and Mining created in Section 40-6-4.
244          (6) "Critical infrastructure materials" means sand, gravel, or rock aggregate.
245          (7) "Critical infrastructure materials operations" means the extraction, excavation,
246     processing, or reprocessing of critical infrastructure materials.
247          (8) "Critical infrastructure materials operator" means a natural person, corporation,
248     association, partnership, receiver, trustee, executor, administrator, guardian, fiduciary, agent, or
249     other organization or representative, either public or private, including a successor, assign,
250     affiliate, subsidiary, and related parent company, that:
251          (a) owns, controls, or manages a critical infrastructure materials operation; and
252          (b) has produced commercial quantities of critical infrastructure materials from the
253     critical infrastructure materials operations.
254          (9) "Critical infrastructure materials protection area" means a geographic area created
255     under the authority of this chapter on or after May 14, 2019, that is granted the specific legal
256     protections contained in this chapter.
257          [(6)] (10) "Crops, livestock, and livestock products" includes:
258          (a) land devoted to the raising of useful plants and animals with a reasonable
259     expectation of profit, including:
260          (i) forages and sod crops;
261          (ii) grains and feed crops;
262          (iii) livestock as defined in Section 59-2-102;
263          (iv) trees and fruits; or
264          (v) vegetables, nursery, floral, and ornamental stock; or
265          (b) land devoted to and meeting the requirements and qualifications for payments or
266     other compensation under a crop-land retirement program with an agency of the state or federal
267     government.
268          [(7)] (11) "Division" means the Division of Oil, Gas, and Mining created in Section
269     40-6-15.
270          [(8)] (12) "Industrial protection area" means a geographic area created under the
271     authority of this chapter that is granted the specific legal protections contained in this chapter.
272          [(9)] (13) "Mine operator" means a natural person, corporation, association,
273     partnership, receiver, trustee, executor, administrator, guardian, fiduciary, agent, or other
274     organization or representative, either public or private, including a successor, assign, affiliate,
275     subsidiary, and related parent company, that, as of January 1, 2009:
276          (a) owns, controls, or manages a mining use under a large mine permit issued by the
277     division or the board; and
278          (b) has produced commercial quantities of a mineral deposit from the mining use.
279          [(10)] (14) "Mineral deposit" has the same meaning as defined in Section 40-8-4, but
280     excludes:
281          (a) building stone, decorative rock, and landscaping rock; and
282          (b) consolidated rock that:
283          (i) is not associated with another deposit of minerals;
284          (ii) is or may be extracted from land; and
285          (iii) is put to uses similar to the uses of sand, gravel, and other aggregates.
286          [(11)] (15) "Mining protection area" means land where a vested mining use occurs,
287     including each surface or subsurface land or mineral estate that a mine operator with a vested
288     mining use owns or controls.
289          [(12)] (16) "Mining use":
290          (a) means:
291          (i) the full range of activities, from prospecting and exploration to reclamation and
292     closure, associated with the exploitation of a mineral deposit; and
293          (ii) the use of the surface and subsurface and groundwater and surface water of an area
294     in connection with the activities described in Subsection [(12)] (16)(a)(i) that have been, are
295     being, or will be conducted; and
296          (b) includes, whether conducted on-site or off-site:
297          (i) any sampling, staking, surveying, exploration, or development activity;
298          (ii) any drilling, blasting, excavating, or tunneling;
299          (iii) the removal, transport, treatment, deposition, and reclamation of overburden,
300     development rock, tailings, and other waste material;
301          (iv) any removal, transportation, extraction, beneficiation, or processing of ore;
302          (v) any smelting, refining, autoclaving, or other primary or secondary processing
303     operation;
304          (vi) the recovery of any mineral left in residue from a previous extraction or processing
305     operation;
306          (vii) a mining activity that is identified in a work plan or permitting document;
307          (viii) the use, operation, maintenance, repair, replacement, or alteration of a building,
308     structure, facility, equipment, machine, tool, or other material or property that results from or is
309     used in a surface or subsurface mining operation or activity;
310          (ix) any accessory, incidental, or ancillary activity or use, both active and passive,
311     including a utility, private way or road, pipeline, land excavation, working, embankment, pond,
312     gravel excavation, mining waste, conveyor, power line, trackage, storage, reserve, passive use
313     area, buffer zone, and power production facility;
314          (x) the construction of a storage, factory, processing, or maintenance facility; and
315          (xi) any activity described in Subsection 40-8-4(14)(a).
316          [(13)] (17) (a) "Municipal" means of or relating to a city or town.
317          (b) "Municipality" means a city or town.
318          [(14)] (18) "New land" means surface or subsurface land or mineral estate that a mine
319     operator gains ownership or control of, whether [or not] that land or mineral estate is included
320     in the mine operator's large mine permit.
321          [(15)] (19) "Off-site" has the same meaning as provided in Section 40-8-4.
322          [(16)] (20) "On-site" has the same meaning as provided in Section 40-8-4.
323          [(17)] (21) "Planning commission" means:
324          (a) a countywide planning commission if the land proposed to be included in the
325     agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure materials
326     protection area is within the unincorporated part of the county and not within a planning
327     advisory area;
328          (b) a planning advisory area planning commission if the land proposed to be included
329     in the agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure
330     materials protection area is within a planning advisory area; or
331          (c) a planning commission of a city or town if the land proposed to be included in the
332     agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure materials
333     protection area is within a city or town.
334          [(18)] (22) "Political subdivision" means a county, city, town, school district, local
335     district, or special service district.
336          [(19)] (23) "Proposal sponsors" means the owners of land in agricultural production
337     [or], industrial use, or critical infrastructure materials operations who are sponsoring the
338     proposal for creating an agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection area[,
339     respectively], or critical infrastructure materials protection area.
340          [(20)] (24) "State agency" means each department, commission, board, council,
341     agency, institution, officer, corporation, fund, division, office, committee, authority, laboratory,
342     library, unit, bureau, panel, or other administrative unit of the state.
343          [(21)] (25) "Unincorporated" means not within a city or town.
344          [(22)] (26) "Vested mining use" means a mining use:
345          (a) by a mine operator; and
346          (b) that existed or was conducted or otherwise engaged in before a political subdivision
347     prohibits, restricts, or otherwise limits a mining use.
348          Section 12. Section 17-41-201 is amended to read:
349          17-41-201. Protection area advisory board.
350          (1) (a) (i) [Each] A county legislative body shall appoint no more than five members
351     from the county's conservation district board of supervisors to serve as the [Agriculture
352     Protection Area Advisory Board] agriculture protection area advisory board.
353          (ii) [Each] A county legislative body shall appoint an industrial protection area
354     advisory board.
355          (iii) Subject to Subsection (1)(b), a county legislative body shall form a critical
356     infrastructure materials protection area advisory board that consists of:
357          (A) the executive director of the Department of Transportation, or the executive
358     director's designee;
359          (B) a local government elected official appointed by the county legislative body;
360          (C) a representative of a local highway authority appointed by the county legislative
361     body;
362          (D) a representative of the critical infrastructure materials industry appointed by the
363     county legislative body; and
364          (E) a representative of the construction industry appointed by the county legislative
365     body.
366          (b) A county legislative body may appoint [the] an advisory board before or after a
367     proposal to create an agriculture protection area or industrial protection area is filed. A county
368     legislative body shall appoint a critical infrastructure materials protection area advisory board
369     only after a proposal to create a critical infrastructure materials protection area is filed.
370          (2) [Each] A member of an advisory board shall serve without salary, but a county
371     legislative body may reimburse members for expenses incurred in the performance of their
372     duties.
373          (3) [Each] An advisory board shall:
374          (a) evaluate proposals for the establishment of [agriculture protection areas or
375     industrial] the relevant protection areas and make recommendations to the applicable
376     legislative body about whether [or not] the proposal should be accepted;
377          (b) provide expert advice to the planning commission and to the applicable legislative
378     body about:
379          (i) the desirability of the proposal;
380          (ii) the nature of agricultural production [or], industrial use, or critical infrastructure
381     materials operations, as the case may be, within the proposed area;
382          (iii) the relation of agricultural production [or], industrial use, or critical infrastructure
383     materials operations, as the case may be, in the area to the county as a whole; and
384          (iv) which agriculture production [or], industrial use, or critical infrastructure materials
385     operations, should be allowed within the [agriculture] relevant protection area [or industrial
386     protection area, respectively]; and
387          (c) perform [all] the other duties required by this chapter.
388          Section 13. Section 17-41-301 is amended to read:
389          17-41-301. Proposal for creation of a protection area.
390          (1) (a) A proposal to create an agriculture protection area [or], an industrial protection
391     area, or critical infrastructure materials protection area may be filed with:
392          (i) the legislative body of the county in which the area is located, if the area is within
393     the unincorporated part of a county; or
394          (ii) the legislative body of the city or town in which the area is located, if the area is
395     within a city or town.
396          (b) A proposal to create a critical infrastructure protection area can only be initiated by
397     the legislative body of the municipality or county. Creation of a critical infrastructure materials
398     protection area is a legislative act.
399          [(b)] (c) (i) To be accepted for processing by the applicable legislative body, a proposal
400     under Subsection (1)(a) shall be signed by a majority in number of all owners of real property
401     and the owners of a majority of the land area in agricultural production [or], industrial use, or
402     critical infrastructure materials operations within the proposed [agriculture protection area or
403     industrial] relevant protection area[, respectively].
404          (ii) For purposes of Subsection (1)[(b)](c)(i), the owners of real property shall be
405     determined by the records of the county recorder.
406          (2) The proposal shall identify:
407          (a) the boundaries of the land proposed to become part of [an agriculture protection
408     area or industrial] the relevant protection area;
409          (b) any limits on the types of agriculture production [or], industrial use, or critical
410     infrastructure materials operations to be allowed within the [agriculture protection area or
411     industrial] relevant protection area[, respectively]; and
412          (c) for each parcel of land:
413          (i) the names of the owners of record of the land proposed to be included within the
414     [agriculture protection area or industrial] relevant protection area;
415          (ii) the tax parcel number or account number identifying each parcel; and
416          (iii) the number of acres of each parcel.
417          (3) An agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection area, or critical
418     infrastructure materials protection area may include within its boundaries land used for a
419     roadway, dwelling site, park, or other nonagricultural [or] use, in the case of an industrial
420     protection area, nonindustrial use, or in the case of a critical infrastructure materials protection
421     area, use unrelated to critical infrastructure materials operations, if that land constitutes a
422     minority of the total acreage within the [agriculture protection area or industrial] the relevant
423     protection area[, respectively].
424          (4) A county or municipal legislative body may establish:
425          (a) the manner and form for submission of proposals; and
426          (b) reasonable fees for accepting and processing the proposal.
427          (5) [Each] A county and municipal legislative body shall establish the minimum
428     number of continuous acres that shall be included in an agriculture protection area [or],
429     industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure materials protection area.
430          Section 14. Section 17-41-302 is amended to read:
431          17-41-302. Notice of proposal for creation of protection area -- Responses.
432          (1) [Each] An applicable legislative body shall provide notice of the proposal by:
433          (a) (i) publishing notice[:(A) ] in a newspaper having general circulation within:
434          [(I)] (A) the same county as the land proposed for inclusion within an agriculture
435     protection area [or], industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure materials protection
436     area, as the case may be, if the land is within the unincorporated part of the county; or
437          [(II)] (B) the same city or town as the land proposed for inclusion within an agriculture
438     protection area [or], industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure materials protection
439     area, as the case may be, if the land is within a city or town; and
440          (ii) as required in Section 45-1-101;
441          (b) posting notice at five public places, designated by the county or municipal
442     legislative body, within or near the proposed agriculture protection area [or], industrial
443     protection area, or critical infrastructure materials protection area; and
444          (c) mailing written notice to each owner of land within 1,000 feet of the land proposed
445     for inclusion within an agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection area, or critical
446     infrastructure materials protection area.
447          (2) The notice shall contain:
448          (a) a statement that a proposal for the creation of an agriculture protection area [or],
449     industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure materials protection area has been filed with
450     the applicable legislative body;
451          (b) a statement that the proposal will be open to public inspection in the office of the
452     applicable legislative body;
453          (c) a statement that any person [or entity] affected by the establishment of the area
454     may, within 15 days of the date of the notice, file with the applicable legislative body:
455          (i) written objections to the proposal; or
456          (ii) a written request to modify the proposal to exclude land from or add land to the
457     proposed [agriculture protection area or industrial] protection area[, as the case may be];
458          (d) a statement that the applicable legislative body will submit the proposal to the
459     advisory committee and to the planning commission for review and recommendations;
460          (e) a statement that the applicable legislative body will hold a public hearing to discuss
461     and hear public comment on:
462          (i) the proposal to create the agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection area,
463     or critical infrastructure materials protection area;
464          (ii) the recommendations of the advisory committee and planning commission; and
465          (iii) any requests for modification of the proposal and any objections to the proposal;
466     and
467          (f) a statement indicating the date, time, and place of the public hearing.
468          (3) (a) [Any] A person wishing to modify the proposal for the creation of the
469     agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure materials
470     protection area shall, within 15 days after the date of the notice, file a written request for
471     modification of the proposal, which identifies specifically the land that should be added to or
472     removed from the proposal.
473          (b) [Any] A person wishing to object to the proposal for the creation of the agriculture
474     protection area [or], industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure materials protection
475     area shall, within 15 days after the date of the notice, file a written objection to the creation of
476     the [agriculture protection area or industrial] relevant protection area.
477          Section 15. Section 17-41-303 is amended to read:
478          17-41-303. Review of proposal for creation of protection area.
479          (1) After 15 days from the date of the notice, the applicable legislative body shall refer
480     the proposal and any objections and proposed modifications to the proposal to the advisory
481     committee and planning commission for their review, comments, and recommendations.
482          (2) (a) Within 45 days after receipt of the proposal, the planning commission shall
483     submit a written report to the applicable legislative body that:
484          (i) analyzes and evaluates the effect of the creation of the proposed area on the
485     planning policies and objectives of the county or municipality, as the case may be;
486          (ii) analyzes and evaluates the proposal by applying the criteria contained in Section
487     17-41-305;
488          (iii) recommends any modifications to the land to be included in the proposed
489     agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure materials
490     protection area;
491          (iv) analyzes and evaluates any objections to the proposal; and
492          (v) includes a recommendation to the applicable legislative body either to accept,
493     accept and modify, or reject the proposal.
494          (b) Within 45 days after receipt of the proposal, the advisory board shall submit a
495     written report to the applicable legislative body that:
496          (i) recommends any modifications to the land to be included in the proposed
497     agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure materials
498     protection area;
499          (ii) analyzes and evaluates the proposal by applying the criteria contained in Section
500     17-41-305;
501          (iii) analyzes and evaluates any objections to the proposal; and
502          (iv) includes a recommendation to the applicable legislative body either to accept,
503     accept and modify, or reject the proposal.
504          (c) The applicable legislative body shall consider a failure of the planning commission
505     or advisory committee to submit a written report within the 45 days under Subsection (2)(a) or
506     (b) as a recommendation of that committee to approve the proposal as submitted.
507          Section 16. Section 17-41-304 is amended to read:
508          17-41-304. Public hearing -- Review and action on proposal.
509          (1) After receipt of the written reports from the advisory committee and planning
510     commission, or after the 45 days have expired, whichever is earlier, the county or municipal
511     legislative body shall:
512          (a) schedule a public hearing;
513          (b) provide notice of the public hearing by:
514          (i) publishing notice:
515          (A) in a newspaper having general circulation within:
516          (I) the same county as the land proposed for inclusion within the agriculture protection
517     area [or], industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure materials protection area, if the
518     land is within the unincorporated part of the county; or
519          (II) the same city or town as the land proposed for inclusion within an agriculture
520     protection area [or], industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure materials protection
521     area, if the land is within a city or town; and
522          (B) on the Utah Public Notice Website created in Section 63F-1-701;
523          (ii) posting notice at five public places, designated by the applicable legislative body,
524     within or near the proposed agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection area, or
525     critical infrastructure materials protection area; and
526          (iii) mailing written notice to each owner of land within 1,000 feet of the land proposed
527     for inclusion within an agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection area, or critical
528     infrastructure materials protection area; and
529          (c) ensure that the notice includes:
530          (i) the time, date, and place of the public hearing on the proposal;
531          (ii) a description of the proposed agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection
532     area, or critical infrastructure materials protection area;
533          (iii) any proposed modifications to the proposed agriculture protection area [or],
534     industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure materials protection area;
535          (iv) a summary of the recommendations of the advisory committee and planning
536     commission; and
537          (v) a statement that interested persons may appear at the public hearing and speak in
538     favor of or against the proposal, any proposed modifications to the proposal, or the
539     recommendations of the advisory committee and planning commission.
540          (2) The applicable legislative body shall:
541          (a) convene the public hearing at the time, date, and place specified in the notice; and
542          (b) take [verbal] oral or written testimony from interested persons.
543          (3) (a) Within 120 days of the submission of the proposal, the applicable legislative
544     body shall approve, modify and approve, or reject the proposal.
545          (b) The creation of an agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection area, or
546     critical infrastructure materials protection area is effective at the earlier of:
547          (i) the applicable legislative body's approval of a proposal or modified proposal; or
548          (ii) 120 days after submission of a proposal complying with Subsection 17-41-301(2) if
549     the applicable legislative body has failed to approve or reject the proposal within that time.
550          (c) Notwithstanding Subsection (3)(b), a critical infrastructure materials protection area
551     is effective only if the applicable legislative body, at its discretion, approves a proposal or
552     modified proposal.
553          (4) (a) [In order to] To give constructive notice of the existence of the agriculture
554     protection area [or], industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure materials protection
555     area to all persons who have, may acquire, or may seek to acquire an interest in land in or
556     adjacent to the [agriculture protection area or industrial] relevant protection area[,
557     respectively,] within 10 days of the creation of [an agriculture protection area or industrial] the
558     relevant protection area, the applicable legislative body shall file an executed document
559     containing a legal description of the [agriculture protection area or industrial] relevant
560     protection area[, as the case may be,] with:
561          (i) the county recorder of deeds; and
562          (ii) the affected planning commission.
563          (b) If the legal description of the property to be included in the [agriculture protection
564     area or industrial] relevant protection area is available through the county recorder's office, the
565     applicable legislative body shall use that legal description in its executed document required in
566     Subsection (4)(a).
567          (5) Within 10 days of the recording of the agriculture protection area, the applicable
568     legislative body shall:
569          (a) send written notification to the commissioner of agriculture and food that the
570     agriculture protection area has been created; and
571          (b) include in the notification:
572          (i) the number of landowners owning land within the agriculture protection area;
573          (ii) the total acreage of the area;
574          (iii) the date of approval of the area; and
575          (iv) the date of recording.
576          (6) The applicable legislative body's failure to record the notice required under
577     Subsection (4) or to send the written notification under Subsection (5) does not invalidate the
578     creation of an agriculture protection area.
579          (7) The applicable legislative body may consider the cost of recording notice under
580     Subsection (4) and the cost of sending notification under Subsection (5) in establishing a fee
581     under Subsection 17-41-301(4)(b).
582          Section 17. Section 17-41-305 is amended to read:
583          17-41-305. Criteria to be applied in evaluating a proposal for the creation of a
584     protection area.
585          In evaluating a proposal and in determining whether or not to create or recommend the
586     creation of an agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection area, or critical
587     infrastructure materials protection area, the advisory committee, planning commission, and
588     applicable legislative body shall apply the following criteria:
589          (1) whether or not the land is currently being used for agriculture production [or for
590     an], industrial use, or critical infrastructure materials operations, as the case may be;
591          (2) whether or not the land is zoned for agriculture use [or], industrial use, or critical
592     infrastructure materials operations, as the case may be;
593          (3) whether or not the land is viable for agriculture production [or], industrial use, or
594     critical infrastructure materials operations, as the case may be;
595          (4) the extent and nature of existing or proposed farm improvements [or], the extent
596     and nature of existing or proposed improvements to or expansion of the industrial use, or the
597     extent and nature of existing or proposed improvements to or expansion of critical
598     infrastructure materials operations, as the case may be; and
599          (5) (a) in the case of an agriculture protection area, anticipated trends in agricultural
600     and technological conditions; [or]
601          (b) in the case of an industrial protection area, anticipated trends in technological
602     conditions applicable to the industrial use of the land in question[.]; or
603          (c) in the case of a critical infrastructure materials protection area, anticipated trends in
604     technological conditions applicable to the critical infrastructure materials operations of the land
605     in question.
606          Section 18. Section 17-41-306 is amended to read:
607          17-41-306. Adding land to or removing land from a protection area -- Removing
608     land from a mining protection area.
609          (1) (a) Any owner may add land to an existing agriculture protection area [or],
610     industrial protection area, critical infrastructure materials protection area, as the case may be,
611     by:
612          (i) filing a proposal with:
613          (A) the county legislative body, if the [agriculture protection area or industrial] relevant
614     protection area and the land to be added are within the unincorporated part of the county; or
615          (B) the municipal legislative body, if the [agriculture protection area or industrial]
616     relevant protection area and the land to be added are within a city or town; and
617          (ii) obtaining the approval of the applicable legislative body for the addition of the land
618     to the relevant protection area.
619          (b) The applicable legislative body shall:
620          (i) comply with the provisions for creating an agriculture protection area [or], industrial
621     protection area, critical infrastructure materials protection area, as the case may be, in
622     determining whether [or not] to accept the proposal[.]; and
623          (ii) for purposes of a critical infrastructure materials protection area, request a copy of
624     the applicable Division of Air Quality approval order.
625          (c) The applicable legislative body may deny the expansion if it is contrary to the
626     Division of Air Quality's approval order.
627          (2) (a) [Any] An owner of land within an agriculture protection area [or], industrial
628     protection area, or critical infrastructure materials protection area may remove any or all of the
629     land from the [agriculture protection area or industrial] relevant protection area, [respectively,]
630     by filing a petition for removal with the applicable legislative body.
631          (b) (i) The applicable legislative body:
632          (A) shall:
633          (I) grant the petition for removal of land from[ an agriculture protection area or
634     industrial] the relevant protection area, [as the case may be,] even if removal of the land would
635     result in an agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure
636     materials protection area of less than the number of acres established by the applicable
637     legislative body as the minimum under Section 17-41-301; and
638          (II) [in order] to give constructive notice of the removal to all persons who have, may
639     acquire, or may seek to acquire an interest in land in or adjacent to the agriculture protection
640     area [or], industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure materials protection area and the
641     land removed from the [agriculture protection area or industrial] relevant protection area, file a
642     legal description of the revised boundaries of the [agriculture protection area or industrial]
643     relevant protection area with the county recorder of deeds and the affected planning
644     commission; and
645          (B) may not charge a fee in connection with a petition to remove land from an
646     agriculture protection area [or], an industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure materials
647     protection area.
648          (ii) The remaining land in the agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection
649     area, or critical infrastructure materials protection area is still an agriculture protection area
650     [or], industrial protection area[, respectively], or critical infrastructure materials protection
651     area.
652          (iii) (A) A critical infrastructure materials operator may abandon some or all of its
653     critical infrastructure materials operations use only as provided in this Subsection (2)(b)(iii).
654          (B) To abandon some or all of a critical infrastructure materials operations, a critical
655     infrastructure materials operator shall record a written declaration of abandonment with the
656     recorder of the county in which the critical infrastructure materials operations being abandoned
657     is located.
658          (C) The written declaration of abandonment under this Subsection (2)(b)(iii) shall
659     specify the critical infrastructure materials operations or the portion of the critical infrastructure
660     materials operations being abandoned.
661          (3) (a) If a municipality annexes any land that is part of an agriculture protection area
662     [or], industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure materials protection area located in the
663     unincorporated part of the county, the county legislative body shall, within 30 days after the
664     land is annexed, review the feasibility of that land remaining in the [agriculture protection area
665     or industrial] relevant protection area according to the procedures and requirements of Section
666     17-41-307.
667          (b) The county legislative body shall remove the annexed land from the [agriculture
668     protection area or industrial] relevant protection area[, as the case may be,] if:
669          (i) the county legislative body concludes, after the review under Section 17-41-307,
670     that removal is appropriate; and
671          (ii) the owners of all the annexed land that is within the [agriculture protection area or
672     industrial] relevant protection area consent in writing to the removal.
673          (c) Removal of land from an agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection area,
674     or critical infrastructure materials protection area under this Subsection (3) does not affect
675     whether that land may be:
676          (i) included in a proposal under Section 17-41-301 to create an agriculture protection
677     area [or], industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure materials protection area within
678     the municipality; or
679          (ii) added to an existing agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection area, or
680     critical infrastructure materials protection area within the municipality under Subsection (1).
681          (4) A mine operator that owns or controls land within a mining protection area may
682     remove any or all of the land from the mining protection area by filing a notice of removal with
683     the legislative body of the county in which the land is located.
684          Section 19. Section 17-41-307 is amended to read:
685          17-41-307. Review of protection areas.
686          (1) In the 20th calendar year after its creation under this part, [each] an agriculture
687     protection area [or], industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure materials protection
688     area, as the case may be, shall be reviewed, under the provisions of this section, by:
689          (a) the county legislative body, if the [agriculture protection area or industrial] relevant
690     protection area is within the unincorporated part of the county; or
691          (b) the municipal legislative body, if the [agriculture protection area or industrial]
692     relevant protection area is within the municipality.
693          (2) (a) In the 20th year, the applicable legislative body may:
694          (i) request the planning commission and advisory board to submit recommendations
695     about whether the agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection area, or critical
696     infrastructure materials protection area, as the case may be, should be continued, modified, or
697     terminated;
698          (ii) at least 120 days before the end of the calendar year, hold a public hearing to
699     discuss whether the [agriculture protection area or industrial] relevant protection area, [as the
700     case may be,] should be continued, modified, or terminated;
701          (iii) give notice of the hearing using the same procedures required by Section
702     17-41-302; and
703          (iv) after the public hearing, continue, modify, or terminate the [agriculture protection
704     area or industrial] relevant protection area.
705          (b) If the applicable legislative body modifies or terminates the agriculture protection
706     area [or], industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure materials protection area, [it] the
707     applicable legislative body shall file an executed document containing the legal description of
708     the [agriculture protection area or industrial] relevant protection area, [respectively,] with the
709     county recorder of deeds.
710          (3) If the applicable legislative body fails affirmatively to continue, modify, or
711     terminate the agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure
712     materials protection area, as the case may be, in the 20th calendar year, the [agriculture
713     protection area or industrial] relevant protection area is considered to be reauthorized for
714     another 20 years.
715          Section 20. Section 17-41-402 is amended to read:
716          17-41-402. Limitations on local regulations.
717          (1) A political subdivision within which an agriculture protection area [or], industrial
718     protection area, or critical infrastructure materials protection area is created or with a mining
719     protection area within its boundary shall encourage the continuity, development, and viability
720     of agriculture use, industrial use, critical infrastructure materials operations, or mining use,
721     [respectively,] within the relevant protection area by not enacting a local law, ordinance, or
722     regulation that, unless the law, ordinance, or regulation bears a direct relationship to public
723     health or safety, would unreasonably restrict:
724          (a) in the case of an agriculture protection area, a farm structure or farm practice [or,];
725          (b) in the case of an industrial protection area, an industrial use of the land within the
726     area [or,];
727          (c) in the case of a critical infrastructure materials protection area, critical infrastructure
728     materials operations; or
729          (d) in the case of a mining protection area, a mining use within the protection area
730     [unless the law, ordinance, or regulation bears a direct relationship to public health or safety].
731          (2) A political subdivision may not change the zoning designation of or a zoning
732     regulation affecting land within an agriculture protection area unless the political subdivision
733     receives written approval for the change from all the landowners within the agriculture
734     protection area affected by the change.
735          (3) Except as provided by Section 19-4-113, a political subdivision may not change the
736     zoning designation of or a zoning regulation affecting land within an industrial protection area
737     unless the political subdivision receives written approval for the change from all the
738     landowners within the industrial protection area affected by the change.
739          (4) A political subdivision may not change the zoning designation of or a zoning
740     regulation affecting land within a critical infrastructure materials protection area unless the
741     political subdivision receives written approval for the change from each critical infrastructure
742     materials operator within the relevant area.
743          [(4)] (5) A political subdivision may not change the zoning designation of or a zoning
744     regulation affecting land within a mining protection area unless the political subdivision
745     receives written approval for the change from each mine operator within the area.
746          (6) A county, city, or town may not:
747          (a) adopt, enact, or amend an existing land use regulation, ordinance, or regulation that
748     would prohibit, restrict, regulate, or otherwise limit critical infrastructure materials operations,
749     including vested critical infrastructure materials operations as defined in Section 10-9a-901 or
750     17-27a-1001; or
751          (b) initiate proceedings to amend the county's, city's, or town's land use ordinances as
752     described in Subsection 10-9a-509(1)(a)(ii) or 17-27a-508(1)(a)(ii).
753          Section 21. Section 17-41-403 is amended to read:
754          17-41-403. Nuisances.
755          (1) [Each] A political subdivision shall ensure that any of [its] the political
756     subdivision's laws or ordinances that define or prohibit a public nuisance exclude from the
757     definition or prohibition:
758          (a) for an agriculture protection area, any agricultural activity or operation within an
759     agriculture protection area conducted using sound agricultural practices unless that activity or
760     operation bears a direct relationship to public health or safety; [or]
761          (b) for an industrial protection area, any industrial use of the land within the industrial
762     protection area that is consistent with sound practices applicable to the industrial use, unless
763     that use bears a direct relationship to public health or safety[.]; or
764          (c) for a critical infrastructure materials protection area, any critical infrastructure
765     materials operations on the land within the critical infrastructure materials protection area that
766     is consistent with sound practices applicable to the critical infrastructure materials operations,
767     unless that use bears a direct relationship to public health or safety.
768          (2) In a civil action for nuisance or a criminal action for public nuisance under Section
769     76-10-803, it is a complete defense if the action involves agricultural activities and those
770     agricultural activities were:
771          (a) conducted within an agriculture protection area; and
772          (b) not in violation of any federal, state, or local law or regulation relating to the
773     alleged nuisance or were conducted according to sound agricultural practices.
774          (3) (a) A vested mining use undertaken in conformity with applicable federal and state
775     law and regulations is presumed to be operating within sound mining practices.
776          (b) A vested mining use that is consistent with sound mining practices:
777          (i) is presumed to be reasonable; and
778          (ii) may not constitute a private or public nuisance under Section 76-10-803.
779          (c) A vested mining use in operation for more than three years may not be considered
780     to have become a private or public nuisance because of a subsequent change in the condition of
781     land within the vicinity of the vested mining use.
782          (4) (a) For any new subdivision development located in whole or in part within 300
783     feet of the boundary of an agriculture protection area, the owner of the development shall
784     provide notice on any plat filed with the county recorder the following notice:
785     
"Agriculture Protection Area

786          This property is located in the vicinity of an established agriculture protection area in
787     which normal agricultural uses and activities have been afforded the highest priority use
788     status. It can be anticipated that such agricultural uses and activities may now or in the
789     future be conducted on property included in the agriculture protection area. The use
790     and enjoyment of this property is expressly conditioned on acceptance of any
791     annoyance or inconvenience which may result from such normal agricultural uses and
792     activities."
793          (b) For any new subdivision development located in whole or in part within 1,000 feet
794     of the boundary of an industrial protection area, the owner of the development shall provide
795     notice on any plat filed with the county recorder the following notice:
796     
"Industrial Protection Area

797          This property is located in the vicinity of an established industrial protection area in
798     which normal industrial uses and activities have been afforded the highest priority use
799     status. It can be anticipated that such industrial uses and activities may now or in the
800     future be conducted on property included in the industrial protection area. The use and
801     enjoyment of this property is expressly conditioned on acceptance of any annoyance or
802     inconvenience which may result from such normal industrial uses and activities."
803          (c) For any new subdivision development located in whole or in part within 1,000 feet
804     of the boundary of a critical infrastructure materials protection area, the owner of the
805     development shall provide notice on any plat filed with the county recorder the following
806     notice:
807     
"Critical Infrastructure Materials Protection Area

808          This property is located in the vicinity of an established critical infrastructure materials
809     protection area in which critical infrastructure materials operations have been afforded
810     the highest priority use status. It can be anticipated that such operations may now or in
811     the future be conducted on property included in the critical infrastructure materials
812     protection area. The use and enjoyment of this property is expressly conditioned on
813     acceptance of any annoyance or inconvenience which may result from such normal
814     critical infrastructure materials operations."
815          [(c)] (d) For any new subdivision development located in whole or in part within 1,000
816     feet of the boundary of a mining protection area, the owner of the development shall provide
817     notice on any plat filed with the county recorder the following notice:
818          "This property is located within the vicinity of an established mining protection area in
819     which normal mining uses and activities have been afforded the highest priority use
820     status. It can be anticipated that the mining uses and activities may now or in the future
821     be conducted on property included in the mining protection area. The use and
822     enjoyment of this property is expressly conditioned on acceptance of any annoyance or
823     inconvenience that may result from the normal mining uses and activities."
824          Section 22. Section 17-41-404 is amended to read:
825          17-41-404. Policy of state agencies.
826          [Each] A state agency shall encourage the continuity, development, and viability of
827     agriculture within agriculture protection areas [and], industrial uses with industrial protection
828     areas, and critical infrastructure materials operations within critical infrastructure protection
829     areas by:
830          (1) not enacting rules that would impose unreasonable restrictions on farm structures or
831     farm practices within the agriculture protection area [or], on industrial uses and practices
832     within the industrial protection area, or on critical infrastructure materials operations with a
833     critical infrastructure materials protection area, unless those laws, ordinances, or regulations
834     bear a direct relationship to public health or safety or are required by federal law; and
835          (2) modifying existing rules that would impose unreasonable restrictions on farm
836     structures or farm practices within the agriculture protection area [or], on industrial uses and
837     activities within the industrial protection area, or on critical infrastructure materials operations
838     within a critical infrastructure materials protection area, unless those laws, ordinances, or
839     regulations bear a direct relationship to public health or safety or are required by federal law.
840          Section 23. Section 17-41-405 is amended to read:
841          17-41-405. Eminent domain restrictions.
842          (1) A political subdivision having or exercising eminent domain powers may not
843     condemn for any purpose any land within an agriculture protection area that is being used for
844     agricultural production [or any], land within an industrial protection area that is being put to an
845     industrial use, or land within a critical infrastructure materials protection area, unless [it has
846     obtained] the political subdivision obtains approval, according to the procedures and
847     requirements of this section, from the applicable legislative body and the advisory board.
848          (2) Any condemnor wishing to condemn property within an agriculture protection area
849     [or], industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure materials protection area shall file a
850     notice of condemnation with the applicable legislative body and the [agriculture protection area
851     or industrial] relevant protection area's advisory board at least 30 days before filing an eminent
852     domain complaint.
853          (3) The applicable legislative body and the advisory board shall:
854          (a) hold a joint public hearing on the proposed condemnation at a location within the
855     county in which the [agriculture protection area or industrial] relevant protection area is
856     located;
857          (b) publish notice of the time, date, place, and purpose of the public hearing:
858          (i) in a newspaper of general circulation within the [agriculture protection area or
859     industrial] relevant protection area[, as the case may be]; and
860          (ii) on the Utah Public Notice Website created in Section 63F-1-701; and
861          (c) post notice of the time, date, place, and purpose of the public hearing in five
862     conspicuous public places, designated by the applicable legislative body, within or near the
863     [agriculture protection area or industrial] relevant protection area[, as the case may be].
864          (4) (a) If the condemnation is for highway purposes or for the disposal of solid or
865     liquid waste materials, the applicable legislative body and the advisory board may approve the
866     condemnation only if there is no reasonable and prudent alternative to the use of the land
867     within the agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure
868     materials protection area for the project.
869          (b) If the condemnation is for any other purpose, the applicable legislative body and the
870     advisory board may approve the condemnation only if:
871          (i) the proposed condemnation would not have an unreasonably adverse effect upon the
872     preservation and enhancement of:
873          (A) agriculture within the agriculture protection area [or of];
874          (B) the industrial use within the industrial protection area; or
875          (C) critical infrastructure materials operations within the critical infrastructure
876     materials protection area; or
877          (ii) there is no reasonable and prudent alternative to the use of the land within the
878     [agriculture protection area or industrial] the relevant protection area for the project.
879          (5) (a) Within 60 days after receipt of the notice of condemnation, the applicable
880     legislative body and the advisory board shall approve or reject the proposed condemnation.
881          (b) If the applicable legislative body and the advisory board fail to act within the 60
882     days or such further time as the applicable legislative body establishes, the condemnation shall
883     be considered rejected.
884          (6) The applicable legislative body or the advisory board may request the county or
885     municipal attorney to bring an action to enjoin any condemnor from violating any provisions of
886     this section.
887          Section 24. Section 17-41-406 is amended to read:
888          17-41-406. Restrictions on state development projects.
889          (1) [Each] A state agency that plans any development project that might affect land
890     within an agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection area, or critical infrastructure
891     materials protection area, shall submit [its] the state agency's development plan to:
892          (a) the advisory board of the [agriculture protection area or industrial] relevant
893     protection area[, respectively]; and
894          (b) in the case of an agriculture protection area, the commissioner of agriculture and
895     food.
896          (2) The commissioner of agriculture and food, in the case of an agriculture protection
897     area, and the advisory board shall:
898          (a) review the state agency's proposed development plan; and
899          (b) recommend any modifications to the development project that would protect the
900     integrity of the agriculture protection area [or], industrial protection area, or critical
901     infrastructure materials protection area, as the case may be, or that would protect the
902     agriculture protection area from nonfarm encroachment [or], the industrial protection area from
903     nonindustrial encroachment, or the critical infrastructure materials protection area from
904     encroachment of uses unrelated to critical infrastructure materials operations.
905          (3) [Each] A state agency and political subdivision of the state that designates or
906     proposes to designate a transportation corridor shall:
907          (a) consider:
908          (i) whether the transportation corridor would:
909          (A) be located on land that is included within an agriculture protection area; or
910          (B) interfere with agriculture production activities on land within an agriculture
911     protection area; and
912          (ii) each other reasonably comparable alternative to the placement of the corridor on
913     land within an agriculture protection area; and
914          (b) make reasonable efforts to minimize or eliminate any detrimental impact on
915     agriculture that may result from the designation of a transportation corridor.
916          Section 25. Section 76-10-803 is amended to read:
917          76-10-803. "Public nuisance" defined -- Agricultural operations -- Critical
918     infrastructure materials operations.
919          (1) A public nuisance is a crime against the order and economy of the state and consists
920     in unlawfully doing any act or omitting to perform any duty, which act or omission:
921          (a) annoys, injures, or endangers the comfort, repose, health, or safety of three or more
922     persons;
923          (b) offends public decency;
924          (c) unlawfully interferes with, obstructs, or tends to obstruct, or renders dangerous for
925     passage, any lake, stream, canal, or basin, or any public park, square, street, or highway;
926          (d) is a nuisance as [defined] described in Section 78B-6-1107; or
927          (e) in any way renders three or more persons insecure in life or the use of property.
928          (2) An act which affects three or more persons in any of the ways specified in this
929     section is still a nuisance regardless of the extent to which the annoyance or damage inflicted
930     on individuals is unequal.
931          (3) (a) Activities conducted in the normal and ordinary course of agricultural
932     operations, as defined in Subsection 78B-6-1101(7), and conducted in accordance with sound
933     agricultural practices are presumed to be reasonable and not constitute a public nuisance under
934     Subsection (1).
935          (b) Agricultural operations undertaken in conformity with federal, state, and local laws
936     and regulations, including zoning ordinances, are presumed to be operating within sound
937     agricultural practices.
938          (4) (a) Activities conducted in the normal and ordinary course of critical infrastructure
939     materials operations, as defined in Subsection 78B-6-1101(8), and conducted in accordance
940     with sound critical infrastructure materials practices are presumed to be reasonable and not
941     constitute a public nuisance under Subsection (1).
942          (b) Critical infrastructure materials operations undertaken in conformity with federal,
943     state, and local laws and regulations, including zoning ordinances, are presumed to be
944     operating within sound critical infrastructure materials operations.
945          Section 26. Section 78B-6-1101 is amended to read:
946          78B-6-1101. Definitions -- Nuisance -- Right of action.
947          (1) A nuisance is anything which is injurious to health, indecent, offensive to the
948     senses, or an obstruction to the free use of property, so as to interfere with the comfortable
949     enjoyment of life or property. A nuisance may be the subject of an action.
950          (2) A nuisance may include the following:
951          (a) drug houses and drug dealing as provided in Section 78B-6-1107;
952          (b) gambling as provided in Title 76, Chapter 10, Part 11, Gambling;
953          (c) criminal activity committed in concert with two or more persons as provided in
954     Section 76-3-203.1;
955          (d) criminal activity committed for the benefit of, at the direction of, or in association
956     with any criminal street gang as defined in Section 76-9-802;
957          (e) criminal activity committed to gain recognition, acceptance, membership, or
958     increased status with a criminal street gang as defined in Section 76-9-802;
959          (f) party houses which frequently create conditions defined in Subsection (1); and
960          (g) prostitution as provided in Title 76, Chapter 10, Part 13, Prostitution.
961          (3) A nuisance under this part includes tobacco smoke that drifts into any residential
962     unit a person rents, leases, or owns, from another residential or commercial unit and the smoke:
963          (a) drifts in more than once in each of two or more consecutive seven-day periods; and
964          (b) creates any of the conditions under Subsection (1).
965          (4) Subsection (3) does not apply to:
966          (a) residential rental units available for temporary rental, such as for vacations, or
967     available for only 30 or fewer days at a time; or
968          (b) hotel or motel rooms.
969          (5) Subsection (3) does not apply to any unit that is part of a timeshare development, as
970     defined in Section 57-19-2, or subject to a timeshare interest as defined in Section 57-19-2.
971          (6) An action may be brought by any person whose property is injuriously affected, or
972     whose personal enjoyment is lessened by the nuisance.
973          (7) "Agricultural operation" means any activity engaged in the commercial production
974     of crops, orchards, aquaculture, livestock, poultry, livestock products, poultry products, and the
975     facilities, equipment, and property used to facilitate the activity.
976          (8) "Critical infrastructure materials operations" means the same as that term is defined
977     in Section 10-9a-901.
978          [(8)] (9) "Manufacturing facility" means any factory, plant, or other facility including
979     its appurtenances, where the form of raw materials, processed materials, commodities, or other
980     physical objects is converted or otherwise changed into other materials, commodities, or
981     physical objects or where such materials, commodities, or physical objects are combined to
982     form a new material, commodity, or physical object.
983          Section 27. Section 78B-6-1115 is enacted to read:
984          78B-6-1115. Critical infrastructure materials operations -- Nuisance liability.
985          (1) Activities conducted in the normal and ordinary course of critical infrastructure
986     materials operations or conducted in accordance with sound practices are presumed to be
987     reasonable and not constitute a nuisance.
988          (2) Critical infrastructure materials operations undertaken in conformity with federal,
989     state, and local laws and regulations, including zoning ordinances, are presumed to be
990     operating within sound critical infrastructure materials practices.