National Legislation

Keep Up With National Issues Affecting the Mineral Industries:

• National Mining Association Legislative Issues
• Northwest Mining Association

Visit National Mining Association's ACT Web site to express your opinion to legislators.

Contact Your Legislature:

• Colorado General Assembly
• U. S. Senators
• U.S. House of Representatives

Latest Releases

• Action Needed! - Mine Safety Treads on Dangerous Ground in the U.S. House

  June 19, 2007 - 10:41 AM

  ACT now and urge your member of Congress to oppose the Supplemental Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response Act of 2007 (H.R. 2768) and the Mine Health Enhancement Act of 2007 (H.R .2769) which will impose duplicative and unnecessary regulations and penalties even before the original MINER Act of 2006 has had a chance to even take effect....

• Hear Nevada Representative Jim Gibbons' Interview on Colorado Public Radio/Colorado Matters

  December 31, 2005 - 5:03 PM

  This interview with Rep. Gibbons includes an introduction to the Mining Law and the reform bill presently in Congress....

• Reform of U.S. Mining Law will cut dependence on imported minerals

  November 26, 2005 - 4:52 PM

  OpEd By Stuart Sanderson, Rocky Mountain News...

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