Raúl Grijalva: “I appreciate the working group. There are balances to be reached here. But one of the premises has to be that this…”

Future exploration or mining activities at the site not only threatens the health and welfare of tribal members.

To merely open the floodgates to the use of our public lands without any protections, due process, community involvement... is going back to a time that got us into this situation.

The bill gives anyone the ability to stake a mining claim, whether there are valuable minerals on the land or not.

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.