Legislation & Regulation
Record $11 Million Fine for California Mine
July 2013 by Associated Press
State regulators imposed a record $11 million fine on the operators of a gold mine in the Sierra foothills east of Sacramento.Legislative and Regulatory Update
• Idaho maintains control
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• Restraining the EPA
• Republicans on the attack
• DOI requests hard rock royalty
• New Forest Service plans
• Bill supporting small miners
• New mercury emission regs
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Legislative and Regulatory Update
• Big win by a California suction gold dredger
• Administration locks up another popular gold mining area
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- Zinke leaving office
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EPA Chief to Reconsider Paying Claims Over Mine Waste Spill
“We feel that we can clean up an area that has been abandoned after 100 years of mining,” Lyon said.
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• More wilderness proposed
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