Hardrock Mining Reform Act of 1993: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Mineral Resources Development and Production of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, on S. 775, to Modify the Requirements Applicable to Locatable Minerals on Public Lands, Consistent with the Principles of Self-initiation of Mining Claims, and for Other Purposes, May 4, 1993, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1994 - 205 pages |
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Page 44 - Without adequate surface management provisions, the American taxpayer may well be left holding the bag with respect to future liability. The Departments of Agriculture and the Interior are now defendants in several lawsuits seeking to hold the government liable for the cost of cleaning up toxic wastes from defunct mining operations carried out throughout the West under the Mining Law of 1872. The irony is that after over a century of making publicly owned minerals available for next to nothing, the...
Page 33 - AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 2 "There are authorized to be appropriated such sums 3 as are necessary to carry out this title, to remain available 4 until expended.".
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Page 51 - The lack of rental or royalty does not mean that the federal government receives no return on its minerals. The various tax consequences of mining are too complicated to deal with here, but...