COUNTY OF NEVADA - File #: SR 23-5011

• File #: SR 23-5011
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed
• Department: Planning Department
• Meeting Date: 12/14/2023
• Legislative Title: Public Hearing to consider the Idaho-Maryland Mine Vested Right Petition dated September 1, 2023 prepared by Braiden Chadwick and Ryan W. Thomason of Mitchell Chadwick, LLP, on behalf of Joseph Mullin, Rise Grass Valley, Inc. (“Petitioner”) for a formal determination by the County of Nevada (“County”) concerning the existence and scope of vested mining rights to mine the 175.64-acre “Idaho Maryland Mine”(“Petition”) comprised of the 119-acre Brunswick Industrial Site Assessor’s Parcel Numbers (APNs): 006-441-003, 006-441-004, 006-441-005, 006-441-034, 009-630-037, 009-630-039 (“Brunswick”); and the Centennial Industrial Site APNs: 009-550-032, 009-550-037, 009-550-038, 009-550-039, and 009-560-036 (“Centennial”) (collectively, the “Subject Property”). Resolution finding that petitioner failed to present sufficient evidence to support the finding of a vested right or to determine the scope of a vested right; mining operations were abandoned at the Subject Property as early as 1956; and...

Date	Action By	Action	Result
12/14/2023	BOARD OF SUPERVISORS	Adopted as amended.
12/13/2023	BOARD OF SUPERVISORS	Adopted as amended.	Pass

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Public Hearing to consider the Idaho-Maryland Mine Vested Right Petition dated September 1, 2023 prepared by Braiden Chadwick and Ryan W. Thomason of Mitchell Chadwick, LLP, on behalf of Joseph Mullin, Rise Grass Valley, Inc. (“Petitioner”) for a formal determination by the County of Nevada (“County”) concerning the existence and scope of vested mining rights to mine the 175.64-acre “Idaho Maryland Mine”(“Petition”) comprised of the 119-acre Brunswick Industrial Site Assessor’s Parcel Numbers (APNs): 006-441-003, 006-441-004, 006-441-005, 006-441-034, 009-630-037, 009-630-039 (“Brunswick”); and the Centennial Industrial Site APNs: 009-550-032, 009-550-037, 009-550-038, 009-550-039, and 009-560-036 (“Centennial”) (collectively, the “Subject Property”).

Resolution finding that petitioner failed to present sufficient evidence to support the finding of a vested right or to determine the scope of a vested right; mining operations were abandoned at the Subject Property as early as 1956; and neither the petitioner nor any other party has a vested right to mine at the 175.64-acre Subject Property comprised of the Brunswick Industrial Site assessor's parcel numbers: 006-441-003, 006-441-004, 006-441-005, 006-441-034, 009-630-037, 009-630-039; and the Centennial Industrial Site assessor's parcel numbers: 009-550-032, 009-550-037, 009-550-038, 009-550-039, AND 009-560-036, and finding the action statutorily exempt from CEQA.