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House weighs mining-sale restrictions
The U.S. House may consider whether to dismantle a law that environmentalists say has left Western states deeply scarred by abandoned, toxic mines. The Hardrock Mining and Reclamation Act, to be voted on by the House, would permanently bar the sale of federal lands to miners and would require them for the first time to pay royalties of up to 8 percent that would go to a fund to clean abandoned mines. It would also establish new permitting and environmental rules. The New York Times
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