All areas within the unincorporated portions of Shoshone County require a permit application. Performance standards are to be met by all activities in all soil types except where exempt in subsection B of this section.
A. Permit Required: A site disturbance permit shall be required only for sites when the following activities are undertaken in addition to any permit required by other agencies:
1. Construction of all new temporary or permanent driveways, private roads, or infrastructure that involves the movement of earth.
2. Conversion of roads from private use to public use.
3. Excavation for the construction of any structures that involves the movement of earth.
4. Creation of a new commercial or industrial access or parking lot, and conversion or paving of an existing access or parking lot for commercial or industrial development.
B. Exemptions: The following activities are exempt from the permit requirements of this chapter:
1. Mining, quarrying, excavating, processing, stockpiling of rock, sand, gravel, aggregate, or clay when approved for operation under applicable federal, state, and local regulations.
2. Bona fide agricultural uses and practices.
3. Logging roads under jurisdiction of the Idaho forest practices act.
4. Opening and closing of cemetery graves.
5. Emergency activities where there exists immediate danger to life or property, substantial for hazards or other public safety hazards as determined by the county or during the period covered by an emergency declaration by the county or state.
6. Refuse disposal or landfill operation authorized by permit from the appropriate federal, state, and local agencies.
7. Construction and/or maintenance of public roads under county jurisdiction, except the county is required to follow BMPs.
8. Private roads or driveway maintenance where work is limited to the travelway, no cut or fill slopes are created, and no new drainage features are created.
9. Excavation of test holes for soil testing activities, provided, that no access road will be created for test hole excavation.
10. Public projects in subject of jurisdiction of state or federal agencies.
11. Superfund remediation sites. (Ord. 129, 7-11-2006)