Raúl Grijalva: “These compacts are up for renegotiation right now.”

This amendment says that this act cannot take effect until the Secretary certifies that the Bureau of Land Management and other Federal permitting agencies have sufficient staff and funding to actually comply with the deadlines established…

This law would apply to all of our public lands, including national parks, wilderness areas, and BLM land.

The mining industry, however, sits above all of that.

I look forward to working with you, Madam Chair, and the other members of the Subcommittee to move this bipartisan bill in a similar bipartisan manner.