As a former school board member, school trust lands are very important, as a source of revenue, in trying to meet the overall budgetary and curricular demands that any school district has anywhere, and particularly in the West.
Grijalva emphasizes the importance of school trust lands for education funding.
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You are hearing that correctly. Any American, or notably, any American subsidiary of a foreign company could have the exclusive rights to our public lands for about $10 per acre per year.
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This bill is not just a give-away to the mining industry. It is a wholesale giveaway of our public lands.
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