Legislation & Regulation
Suction Dredging Update for California & Idaho
May 2011 by Scott Harn
Prospectors Protest San Gabriel Mountains National Monument

Legislative and Regulatory Update
• EPA investigated for environmental ties
• Hundreds of miners show up to rally at Oregon State Capitol
• DOI nominee would be bad for miners
Legislative and Regulatory Update
• Settlement hearings
• Fighting back
State Lends Help to County in Nevada Road Fight
Nevada’s attorney general for the first time is joining a rural county in a 15-year-old legal battle...
Legislative and Regulatory Update
- Massive 660-page lands bill passed in the Senate
Oregon Anti-Dredging Bill
SB 765...would tax suction gold dredgers by charging a $50 annual fee for in-state dredgers and a whopping $2,500 fee for out-of-state dredgers for each county where the miner intends to dredge.
Legislative and Regulatory Update
• Our Federal Landlord
• One down, two to go
• Challenging timing windows in Washington State
• More roadblocks to mining
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• The Disappearance of State Mining Departments
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