there at it again - Hardrock mining act of 2017

winners58

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S.1833 - Hardrock Mining and Reclamation Act of 2017
https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/1833/text

  • Casual use is non-motorized only
  • repeals patents permanently 30 U.S.C. 29
  • no relocating if you mess up your paper work or miss a filing deadline. you or your relatives cant refile for 10 years
  • $150 maintenance fee and raise it every 5 years
  • failure to use a claim, now on the claimant to show it was mined
  • Royalty, not less than 2% to no more than 5%
  • comprehensive inspection, collection, fiscal, and production accounting and auditing system
  • audits of all claim holders, operators, producers, transporters, purchasers, processors,
  • or other persons directly or indirectly involved in the production or sales of locatable or hardrock minerals
  • Federal mining permit or denial
  • WITHDRAWALS & change land use plans at any time
  • grants to non-profits for reclamation & restoration
  • abandoned mine land fee .6% to 2% of value of mineral production
  • This Act supersedes the general mining law
 

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I'm telling you, the gov. wants it all for themselves. The Antiquities act, mining law changes, closures all over the country. Too bad "we" don't care enough to stop it.

It has been said that one phone call or letter to a Representative or Congressperson has been known to change their vote, yet they never get a call or a letter from voters.
I told a person once to write their Congressman about something and that person asked me to get the C's address for him!! I told him no. If he was too lazy to find it then he was too lazy to write the letter and would expect me to write it for him. He said, "Well, Ya"!!

Grassroots, folks, grassroots.

It takes a grassroots movement--that's us, folks.

And, yes, I am doing my part.
 

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The word around the campfire is it is DOA already

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"CERTIFICATES"

It may not hurt to read up about "CERTIFICATES" that a "Surveyor" can "Sign and Title".
 

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it is every time it gets put up
 

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it's not going anywhere, but this is how they think...
 

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lots of patriots fighting to stop the politically motivated leftist agenda...
it didn't happen over night, it's going to take some time to set things right, there is Hope

some steps in the right direction;
Chairman Bishop asked Secretaries Perdue and Zinke “to conduct a comprehensive and expedited review of all mineral withdrawals executed in the past eight years to determine those of merit and those whose purpose served only to block appropriate development under FLPMA.”

Bishop asks for Inquiry into intentional misuse of statutory authority using mineral withdraws
to stop mining under false pretenses of environmental protectionism;
https://naturalresources.house.gov/uploadedfiles/bishop_letter_on_mineral_withdrawals.pdf
 

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