Civil administrative procuratorate
Vegetation restoration fee paid for forest land occupied by mining
Time: February 4, 2016 Author: News source: Xin'an Evening News [Font size: large | in | Small

Recently, the He County Procuratorate successfully supervised a case of loss of state-owned assets, which saved nearly 900000 yuan of economic losses for the country.

According to the investigation, before 2014, there were 20 mining enterprises in Shiyang Town and Shanhou Town of He County mining in this area and obtained mining licenses. At the same time, due to the needs of mining, 3.3488 million square meters of forest land is occupied in this area. According to the Interim Measures for the Administration of Collection and Use of Forest Vegetation Restoration Fees (hereinafter referred to as the Interim Measures) issued by the Ministry of Finance and the State Forestry Administration, "Where forest land needs to be occupied, requisitioned or temporarily occupied for exploration, mining and road construction, the land use unit shall report to the competent forestry authority at or above the county level in accordance with the provisions of these Measures

The 20 mining enterprises need to pay the corresponding forest vegetation restoration fees to the county forestry bureau.

On October 8, 2015, the People's Bank Procurator of the People's Procuratorate of He County found in the 2014 audit report of the Forestry Bureau that there was a phenomenon that mining enterprises occupied forest land and failed to pay forest vegetation restoration fees, so they began to investigate and collect evidence, and found that these 20 mining enterprises failed to pay forest vegetation restoration fees in accordance with the Interim Measures. On December 11 last year, the procuratorate issued a procuratorial proposal to the county forestry bureau, suggesting that the county forestry bureau should recover the unpaid enterprises according to law. Up to now, the Forestry Bureau of He County has recovered 898800 yuan of forest vegetation restoration fees. (Ke Weidong and Shen Jinlong)