Legislative and Regulatory Update

September 2018 by Scott Harn

• Forest Service to revisit 228 regulations
• WOTUS Executive Order suspended

AMRA Takes On USFS in Idaho

September 2015
Mr. Hughes was obviously shaken by our interaction and we are quite confident he assumed we were all missing teeth, long-haired, uneducated, backwoods miners who would immediately become submissive. That didn’t happen...

MMAC & PLP Update

July 2016
…what I’d like to focus on in this update is the assistance they provided to a suction gold dredger in Idaho being harassed by an environmental group.

Legislative and Regulatory Update

January 2018

• EPA declines to impose additional regulations and financial requirements on hardrock miners
• “Baffling” ruling in suction gold dredging court case

Legislative and Regulatory Update

January 2016
• More roadblocks in southern California
• Greater Sage-grouse withdrawals

Legislative and Regulatory Update

March 2012
• California suction dredging regulations
• Draft Coho recovery plan for Southern Oregon, Northern California
• Sage-grouse

Legislative and Regulatory Update

July 2015
• WOTUS
• Sheriff withdraws Forest Service law enforcement authority

Legislative and Regulatory Update

March 2018

• Change is coming at Interior
• Interior Department seeking public comment regarding minerals

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