(a) Each holder of a permit issued under the CCAP, prior to January 1, 1997 shall be responsible for reimbursement to the County on a proportional basis all outstanding actual costs incurred during development, environmental review, adoption, and early implementation of the CCAP and related ordinances and regulations, through December 31, 1996. The Permit Holder shall be fully responsible for reimbursement to the County all costs incurred during processing of the permit, through December 31, 1996. The County will invoice the Permit Holder for these reimbursements no later than January 1, 1997. The reimbursements shall be paid in four (4) equal installments due February 28, March 29, April 30, and May 30 of 1997.
(b) In addition to regular application fees as may be charged by the County, subsequent applicants for new, extended, or modified mining and reclamation permits shall at the time of filing of application, pay their proportionate share of the costs of development, environmental review, and adoption of the CCAP as calculated and documented by the County, starting with the cost of the report entitled “Technical Studies and Recommendations for the Lower Cache Creek Resource Management Plan” issued October 1995 and including all related costs through December 31, 1996.
(c) The proportional share of the reimbursement costs to be paid by a subsequent applicant shall be a percentage based on the requested total annual permitted production plus an imputed interest charge of seven (7%) percent per annum from January 1997, and an administrative fee of Five Hundred and no/100ths ($500.00) Dollars to cover the costs of processing the reimbursement. The percentage owed shall be obtained by dividing the applicant's requested total annual permitted production by the total of all annual tonnage allocations in effect under the CCAP at the time.
(d) Reimbursements costs and imputed interest collected by the County under subsection (b) above shall be refunded to each holder of a permit issued under the CCAP prior to January 1, 1997 based on the unreimbursed costs incurred by that permit holder under the terms of the “Gravel Management and Oversight Costs Funding Agreement” dated December 6, 1994 and the “Agreement to Provide Funds for Environmental Studies, Cache Creek Resources Management Plan and Long-Term Off-Channel Ordinance Formulation” dated December 1995, as evidenced by County records. Refund payments shall be made by the County within sixty (60) days of receipt of a reimbursement from any subsequent applicant.
(e) The proportional share obligation for subsequent applicants shall terminate upon collection by the County of fifty (50%) percent, excluding imputed interest and the administrative fee, of the total costs of preparation of the CCAP as calculated pursuant to(b) above, or December 31, 2006, whichever occurs first. (§ 1, Ord. 1196, eff. January 1, 1997; as amended by § 2, Ord. 1357, eff. April 26, 2007,§ 2, Ord. 1445, eff. August 14, 2014, and Ord. 1518, eff. February 13, 2020)