Merkley acknowledges Eduardo's contribution to the discussion.
07/14/2011
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This is not protection for kind of going in and re-mining, but this is truly about cleanup.
Ultimately the beauty of this bill is that it is 15 pilots over 7 years.
The stream that ran through that village was completely dead, no fish, nothing lived in it.
There is a critical need for us to address these abandoned mines, to clean them up, to stop them from polluting our waters.