Raúl Grijalva: “The withdrawal area and where the ban on uranium mining would be is all Federal land.”

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…

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.

The passage of single-tribe legislation will inevitably diminish the political will to achieve additional Carcieri fixes.

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