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Thanks to everyone for their support on these weekly letters. Remember the objective of these is to get on the radar of the new administration.
This weeks letter is a quick snap shot of the extraordinary issue we all face by whatever water agency we deal with. There is no way we can spell out all of the issues, even on one specific topic, with the 2,500 character cap imposed by the email system of the White House. Nor can I address your specific issue vs mine in that limit. If we all take a moment and send a in a personal note on the same general topic we can show just how out of control it is.
I will also be sending this weeks letter to Administrator Scott Pruitt of the EPA and to Texas Congressman Lamar Smith, Chair of the House Science Committee. As always, your letters to President Trump can be sent here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact#page
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Scott Pruitt, Administrator
US Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental Protection Agency
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20460
Representative Lamar Smith
2409 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
______________________________________________________________________________________________________
Donald J. Trump, President of the United States
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear President Trump,
The West Coast independent gold miners and prospectors have been reaching out to you for assistance to get us back to work in the face of the environmental movements massive push to over regulate us out of existence. As we have stated, this affects thousands and thousands of Western gold miners and this week we would like to point out just how absurd our over regulation is.
According to the EPA “the discharge consists totally of stream water and bed material.” This is the pollutant that we have been held to extraordinary standards to adhere to. Let me state that again, the pollutant of concern “consists totally of stream water and bed material.” It has not been treated with anything, there are no additions of any material, it just “consists totally of stream water and bed material.”
To make this complicated, in some states we are over seen by the state water agencies and in some states we are over seen by the EPA. Each has interpreted it’s own set of extraordinary regulations based on the same federal regulations, on our federal mining claims, on federal lands for the exact same process.
To show how crazy this has become, one state run water agency has made the determination that “the indefinite continuation of the existing moratorium is the State Water Board’s recommendation and is the only option that fully mitigates all environmental impacts……… this activity permanently prohibited as an alternative to the indefinite continuation of the moratorium.”
What we are up against is to “fully mitigate(s) all environmental impacts…. of stream water and bed material.” And the only way to do this is not to mine! This extreme political agenda is now spreading across other states
Please Mr. President, we are all hard working Americans who just want to exercise our federal mining rights.
We look forward to working with you to Make America Great Again and get the miners back to work!
CC:
Scott Pruitt, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency
Representative Lamar Smith
This weeks letter is a quick snap shot of the extraordinary issue we all face by whatever water agency we deal with. There is no way we can spell out all of the issues, even on one specific topic, with the 2,500 character cap imposed by the email system of the White House. Nor can I address your specific issue vs mine in that limit. If we all take a moment and send a in a personal note on the same general topic we can show just how out of control it is.
I will also be sending this weeks letter to Administrator Scott Pruitt of the EPA and to Texas Congressman Lamar Smith, Chair of the House Science Committee. As always, your letters to President Trump can be sent here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact#page
ratled
Scott Pruitt, Administrator
US Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental Protection Agency
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20460
Representative Lamar Smith
2409 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
______________________________________________________________________________________________________
Donald J. Trump, President of the United States
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear President Trump,
The West Coast independent gold miners and prospectors have been reaching out to you for assistance to get us back to work in the face of the environmental movements massive push to over regulate us out of existence. As we have stated, this affects thousands and thousands of Western gold miners and this week we would like to point out just how absurd our over regulation is.
According to the EPA “the discharge consists totally of stream water and bed material.” This is the pollutant that we have been held to extraordinary standards to adhere to. Let me state that again, the pollutant of concern “consists totally of stream water and bed material.” It has not been treated with anything, there are no additions of any material, it just “consists totally of stream water and bed material.”
To make this complicated, in some states we are over seen by the state water agencies and in some states we are over seen by the EPA. Each has interpreted it’s own set of extraordinary regulations based on the same federal regulations, on our federal mining claims, on federal lands for the exact same process.
To show how crazy this has become, one state run water agency has made the determination that “the indefinite continuation of the existing moratorium is the State Water Board’s recommendation and is the only option that fully mitigates all environmental impacts……… this activity permanently prohibited as an alternative to the indefinite continuation of the moratorium.”
What we are up against is to “fully mitigate(s) all environmental impacts…. of stream water and bed material.” And the only way to do this is not to mine! This extreme political agenda is now spreading across other states
Please Mr. President, we are all hard working Americans who just want to exercise our federal mining rights.
We look forward to working with you to Make America Great Again and get the miners back to work!
CC:
Scott Pruitt, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency
Representative Lamar Smith
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