Legislation & Regulation
Legislative and Regulatory Update
May 2022 by Scott Harn
• Environmental groups push for more ESA listings
• Proposed grant program to recruit mining engineering students
Legislative and Regulatory Update
• Bill to address Forest Service Travel Management restrictions
• Suction gold dredging challenge finally under way
• EPA nullification bill fails in Idaho
• Another bad bill
Legislative and Regulatory Update
• Additional access restrictions proposed in Arizona
• Oregon senators introduce bill to place state rivers and streams off-limits
Legislative and Regulatory Update
• NEDC Surrenders in Oregon
• The California saga continues
MMAC & PLP Update
Each separate Mining District is a federally recognized entity. There are huge advantages—picture yourself going to an oversight meeting where 2, 3, 4, or even more Mining District representatives have obtained voting positions on the board.
Administration Offers Up Conflicting Goals and Executive Orders
To reach this goal, our federal government would need to designate another 45.7 million acres as protected lands every year.
SB 838 and the Salem Witch Hunt
In every sense, this was a witch hunt with a preconceived agenda to heavily restrict or outright prohibit most small-scale mining in Oregon.
Legislative and Regulatory Update
• Some positives in spending bill
• Judge puts brakes on the EPA in Alaska
• Judge to rule in favor of suction gold dredgers
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