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a) Recycled materials and inert waste removed from the waste stream and not disposed of in a solid waste landfill shall not be included for the purpose of assessing fees imposed pursuant to

Section 48000. (

b) For purposes of this section, and only for the purpose of determining whether fees shall be imposed pursuant to

Section 48000, “inert waste removed from the waste stream and not disposed of in solid waste landfills” includes the use, disposal, or placement of solely inert waste on property where surface mining operations, as defined in

Section 2735, are being conducted, or have been conducted previously, as long as the use, disposal, or placement is for purposes of reclamation, as defined in

Section 2733, pursuant to either of the following:

(1) A reclamation plan approved pursuant to

Section 2774.

(2) For surface mining operations conducted prior to January 1, 1976, an agreement with a city or county, or a permit issued by a city or county, that provides for a fill appropriately engineered for the planned future use of the reclaimed minesite. (

c) For purposes of this section, “inert waste” means rock, concrete, brick, sand, soil, and cured asphalt only. In addition, inert waste does not include any waste that meets the definition of “designated waste” as defined in

Section of the Water Code or “hazardous waste” as defined by

Section 40141. (

d) This

section shall remain operative until the operative date of the regulations adopted by the board pursuant to

Section 48007.5 and, as of the January following that operative date, this

section is repealed, unless a later enacted statute deletes or extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.