Missouri Revised Statutes § 444.370 - Processing fee, annual permit fee — metallic minerals waste management fund, created, uses

444.370. Processing fee, annual permit fee — metallic minerals waste management fund, created, uses. — 1. A processing fee of ten thousand dollars shall accompany the filing of the application for a facility or metallic minerals waste management area. An annual fee of seven thousand five hundred dollars per facility or metallic minerals waste management area shall be paid when the permit is approved and on each anniversary date thereafter until the determination is made that inspection-maintenance is no longer required. 2. All sums received through the payment of fees or the forfeiture of bonds pursuant to sections 444.352 to 444.380 shall be placed in the state treasury and credited to the "Metallic Minerals Waste Management Fund" which is hereby created. 3. After appropriations by the general assembly, the money in this fund shall be expended for the administration and enforcement of sections 444.352 to 444.380 and for any other purpose directly related to effective management of remediation of a metallic minerals waste management area. Any portion of the fund not immediately needed for the purposes authorized shall be invested by the state treasurer as provided by the constitution and laws of this state. All income from such investments shall be deposited in the metallic minerals waste management fund. The provisions of section 33.080 to the contrary notwithstanding, moneys in the fund shall not lapse to general revenue until the amount in the fund is in excess of three million dollars, exclusive of the interest and security forfeiture proceeds. 4. The moneys collected from any forfeiture of a financial assurance instrument shall be expended upon the area for which the permit was issued and for which the instrument was given. 5. General revenue of the state may be appropriated for or expended only for the administration and enforcement of sections 444.352 to 444.380. (L. 1989 H.B. 321 § 9, A.L. 1993 H.B. 312 & 257)