POSITIVE IMPACT OF URBANIZATION ON THE AGGREGATE INDUSTRY

The planning and environmental control process, as it relates to mining in California, was triggered essentially by a 1967 amendment to California's General Code, which added "natural resources" to those things that must be considered in land use planning. Then in 1973 the California Division of Mines and Geology published a report that showed (a) the need for mineral resources, (b) how mineral resources were being needlessly lost to the people of the state, and (c) what the cost to the citizens of California was likely to be by the year 2000. The state has officially acknowledged that management of mineral resources is a critical part of the planning process. California currently has laws in which quantification of mineral resources is under the California Division of Mines and Geology, land reclamation is administered under the Surface Mining and Reclamation Act, and opening new deposits requires environmental impact reports that are administered under the California Environmental Quality Act. Development of laws relating to environmental and economic impacts of the mineral industry in California was accomplished in close cooperation with the state's mineral aggregate producing associations and with the approval of the Sierra Club. Some specific efforts of the Southern California Rock Products Association are also noted in this paper. This body of laws has proved beneficial to some mineral producers. However, the process of evaluating requests for approval to mine has been slow, often with a 10-year period between the first submittal of a proposal and actual mining. This prolonged process is costly and tends to eliminate the small mineral producers that dominated the aggregate industry in the past.

• Record URL:
  • http://onlinepubs.trb.org/Onlinepubs/trr/1984/989/989-004.pdf
• Summary URL:
  • https://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?title=POSITIVE+IMPACT+OF+URBANIZATION+ON+THE+AGGREGATE+INDUSTRY&author=D.+Reining&publication_year=1984
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/isbn/0309037735
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Publication of this paper sponsored by Committee on Mineral Aggregates.
• Authors:
  • Reining, Don
• Conference:
  • Symposium on Reducing Constraints on Mineral Aggregate Development, 1984, Washington, Dc, USA
• Publication Date: 1984

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 12-16
• Monograph Title: Mineral aggregates
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 989
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Economic impacts; Environmental impacts; Environmental protection; Impact studies; Mineral aggregates; Urbanization
• Subject Areas: Construction; Economics; Environment; Geotechnology; Highways; I36: Aggregates;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00450246
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309037735
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-038 693
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Feb 28 1986 12:00AM