House Panel Takes Another Crack at Updating 1872 Mining Law

摘要

The House Natural Resources Committee will vote today on a Chairman Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) bill (H.R.2579) to update a hardrock mining law signed by President Ulysses S. Grant in 1872. 1. Grijalva’s bill “would replace today’s obsolete law with a modern leasing system designed to protectAmerican taxpayers and American public lands,” according to the committee. A similar bill passed theHouse in 2007, but was blocked in the Senate by then-Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to protecthis state’s gold mining industry. Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.) has introduced a similar measure (S.1386).