It falls on the taxpayer to pay for the cleanup for these mines.
Betty McCollum: “It falls on the taxpayer to pay for the cleanup for these mines.”
On the recordMarch 14, 2016
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McCollum highlights the financial burden of cleaning up abandoned mines on taxpayers.
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