All 28 groups listed agree that Section 402 of the Clean Water Act does not apply and no dredge miner should be asking a state or federal agency for such a permit.

Rise Gold to Assert its Vested Right to Mine at the Idaho-Maryland-Brunswick Mine (the "IM Mine")

• Another setback for Twin Metals
• US Supreme Court to review case that challenges WOTUS

We now have supporters who are well known and connected in Washington, DC, and who state they will assist us in bypassing lower level staffers and getting us face-to-face meetings with Senators.

They cited concerns that the Trump administration would allow more logging, oil drilling, mining or development on some of the 46 million acres controlled by the federal government in California.

“We feel that we can clean up an area that has been abandoned after 100 years of mining,” Lyon said.