{"id":11806,"date":"2019-07-18t18:53:21","date_gmt":"2019-07-18t18:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dpetrov.2create.studio\/planet\/wordpress\/house-panel-oks-bills-to-rein-in-mining-around-grand-canyon\/"},"modified":"2023-02-28t18:36:59","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28t18:36:59","slug":"mining-grand-canyon-house-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.getitdoneaz.com\/story\/mining-grand-canyon-house-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"house panel oks bills to rein in mining around grand canyon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by miranda faulkner<br \/>\n<em>cronkite news<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>washington \u2013 democratic lawmakers beat back a series of republican amendments wednesday before advancing bills to restrict mining around the grand canyon and on tribal lands in arizona and new mexico.<\/p>\n<p>in a sometimes emotional meeting, the house natural resources committee gave preliminary approval to bills banning mining on 1 million acres around the grand canyon, taking uranium off the list of \u201ccritical minerals\u201d and setting a 10-mile&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/116\/bills\/hr2181\/bills-116hr2181ih.pdf\">mining buffer<\/a>&nbsp;around chaco canyon.<\/p>\n<p>the approval came after three hours of attempted amendments by republicans, who said the bills in their current form are doomed in the senate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cthe three bills we are marking up today are going nowhere,\u201d rep. rob bishop, r-utah, said at the opening of the hearing. \u201cthey\u2019re not going to be considered in the senate. they\u2019re not going to be signed by the president. we are simply spinning our wheels once again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>republicans said the mining bills will hurt the local economy while standing in the way of national and economic security for the u.s. as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>but rep. deb haaland, d-new mexico, pointed to the cultural and sacred sites that would be protected by the bills, noting that tourism and outdoor recreation offer greater economic potential for the region than mining would.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cgrand canyon national park was responsible for $667 million in consumer spending around the park and supports over 7,000 local jobs,\u201d she said during&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/naturalresources.house.gov\/hearings\/full-committee-markup3\">the hearing<\/a>, adding that a bureau of land management report found that mining would only support about 295 jobs in the region.<\/p>\n<p>more importantly, haaland said, the measures will protect the health of area residents after decades of mining on the navajo nation left a \u201ctoxic burden\u201d that shows up in higher risks of cancer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cwe cannot allow people to suffer from these preventable impacts simply to do the bidding of the mining industry,\u201d she said in a statement released wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>the bills passed out of committee on mostly party-line votes, that followed mostly party-line rejections of 14 amendments, the majority of which were proposed by rep. paul gosar, r-prescott.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"433\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/17-mining-pair-full.jpg\" \/><figcaption>tucson democratic rep. raul grijalva, back row right, sits next to rep. paul gosar, r-prescott, at a house natural resources committee hearing where gosar tried repeatedly, and unsuccessfully, to amend mining restriction bills. (miranda faulkner\/cronkite news)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>gosar argued that the bill prohibiting mining on federal land around the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/116\/bills\/hr1373\/bills-116hr1373ih.pdf\">grand canyon<\/a>&nbsp;alone would mean the loss of up to 4,000 potential jobs and billions of dollars worth of economic activity and tax revenues for the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cit\u2019s copper, it\u2019s mining, it\u2019s where you get true wealth to come from,\u201d gosar said.<\/p>\n<p>the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/116\/bills\/hr3405\/bills-116hr3405ih.pdf\">uranium bill<\/a>&nbsp;would reverse a trump administration plan that put it on a list of non-fuel minerals that are critical to the nation\u2019s economy and defense, and could be threatened if imports from other countries were cut off.<\/p>\n<p>president donald&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/presidential-executive-order-federal-strategy-ensure-secure-reliable-supplies-critical-minerals\/\">trump ordered<\/a>&nbsp;the departments of interior and defense to develop the list in 2017, and the commerce department last month released&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commerce.gov\/news\/reports\/2019\/06\/federal-strategy-ensure-secure-and-reliable-supplies-critical-minerals\">a plan<\/a>&nbsp;for ensuring a reliable supply of the 35 minerals on the list.<\/p>\n<p>gosar at one point offered an amendment to rename the bill the \u201cenhancing soviet and chinese dominance act,\u201d arguing that not having a ready stockpile of uranium runs the risk of making america dependent on potential adversaries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cmaking ourselves completely reliant on other countries like russia, china \u2026 is exactly why this bill should be changed directly,\u201d gosar said.<\/p>\n<p>but democrats argued that uranium has no place on the list of \u201cnon-fuel\u201d minerals the president ordered up and that there are decades of uranium stockpiles available for military needs.<\/p>\n<p>rep. tom o\u2019halleran, d-sedona, said in a statement after the vote that uranium mining \u201cthroughout northern arizona has impacted the health and wellbeing of families across the region, and communities are still grappling with the legacy of this activity decades later.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cwe cannot allow these precious lands to be turned over to mining operations that could irreparably harm the area,\u201d said o\u2019halleran, a co-sponsor of the grand canyon mining bill.<\/p>\n<p>grijalva rejected gop claims that not all tribes support the bills, which he said have wide support. he cited a poll that showed the majority of those surveyed support a mining ban around the grand canyon and believe that protecting public lands and waters is essential to the future economy and quality of life in arizona.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cthere is national support and there\u2019s certainly support from tribal nations from across this country, and in arizona itself, considerable and strong support,\u201d grijalva said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p><em>this story is part of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/elementalreports.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">elemental: covering sustainability<\/a>, a multimedia collaboration between&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cronkitenews.azpbs.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\">cronkite news<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azpbs.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\">arizona pbs<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/kjzz.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\">kjzz<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scpr.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\">kpcc<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rmpbs.org\/home\/\" rel=\"noopener\">rocky mountain pbs<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbssocal.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\">pbs socal<\/a>.&nbsp;follow them on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cronkitenews\" rel=\"noopener\">twitter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>republished with permission. see&nbsp;the original piece at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cronkitenews.azpbs.org\/2019\/07\/17\/house-panel-oks-bills-to-rein-in-mining-around-grand-canyon-elsewhere\/\">cronkite news<\/a>.&nbsp;for more stories from cronkite news, visit&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cronkitenews.azpbs.org\/?utm_source=referral&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=client\">cronkitenews.azpbs.org.<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>democratic lawmakers beat back a series of republican amendments before advancing bills to restrict mining around the grand canyon and on other tribal lands,&nbsp;miranda faulkner 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