The AMA Federal Oversight Committee meets Tuesdays at 10:00 am via Zoom, at the call of the Chair.  Committee membership is open to active AMA members.  Email deantha@alaskaminers.org if you would like to get involved!

 

• AMA Federal Issues of Concern​

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• AMA Comments on EPA Proposed Rulemaking on 404 assumption process 

• Map of federal actions against Alaska from Senator Dan Sullivan 

• National Mining Association, AEMA, and Business Coalition Amicus Brief on State complaint to SCOTUS on 404c veto 

• AMA Joins Broad Business Coalition in Roadless Rule Complaint

​        ROADLESS RULE COMPLAINT 

        State of Alaska complaint ​

        Pacific Legal Foundation complaint

• Alaska Business Coalition reacts to DOI cancellation of ANWR leases

• AMA Comments on BLM’s Proposed Rule on Conservation Landscape 

• MEDIA RELEASE: Alaska Trade Groups: Sackett v. EPA Ruling is a Win for Alaska

• AMA Comments in support of 2023 exploration project at Herbert Gold Project 

• Alaska Business Groups dismayed at Final Determination for preemptive veto of Pebble Project

• AMA Comments on Stibnite Gold Project Supplemental Draft EIS 

• Alaska Trade Groups React to New WOTUS Rule 

• AMA Comments on Ambler Supplemental EIS 

• Alaska Miners Association: EPA puts politics above science, process

• AMA Comments on EIS for ANCSA 17(d)(1) Withdrawal Revocations 

• Action Alert: Ambler Access Project SEIS

• Letter from Alaska Organizations and Businesses on Tongass Mineral Studies
  Attachment: May 2022 letter from Alaska DNR requesting mineral studies
  Attachment: August 2022 letter from Senator Murkowski 

• 2022 Comments: AMA Comments on 2022 EPA Proposed Determination
  Attachment: AMA comments on 2012 EPA Bristol Bay Watershed Assessment 
  Attachment: AMA comments on 2013 EPA Revised Bristol Bay Watershed Assessment
  Attachment: AMA comments on 2017 EPA Withdrawal of Proposed Determination

• ​AMA Comments on DOI Interagency Workgroup on Hardrock Mining Regulations 

        Attachment: ANCSA Native Claims Issue for DOI IWG reference 

• AMA letter thanking Alaska Governor Dunleavy for pushback on EPA Proposed Determination at Pebble

• Mining Association Amicus Brief on Sackett vs EPA

• AMA Comments on 30x30 American Conservation and Stewardship Atlas

• Joint trade organization letter on 30x30 American Conservation and Stewardship Atlas

• MEDIA RELEASE: Alaska Trade Groups: Incoherent Domestic Mining Policy Jeopardizes National Security, Economic Development

• AMA Comments in support of Peak Gold 404 Wetlands Permit

• AMA Comments on WOTUS Step One Proposal    

• Action Alert for Peak Gold’s (Manh Choh) Application for 404 Wetlands Permit

• AMA Comments on Repeal of Tongass Roadless Rule Exemption 

• Action Alert to Oppose Repeal of Tongass Roadless Rule Exemption

• Alaska Trade Organization Letter on Ambler Project Process

• AMA Comments on SEIS for ANWR Leasing Program 

• AMA Comments on Pre-proposal to Reconsider Definition of WOTUS

• AMA Request for Extension to WOTUS Comment Deadline 

• AMA Comments on Central Yukon RMP 2021

• AMA Comments on Grande Portage Exploration Drilling Program

• Alaska Coalition Letter on Willow Project ROD

• AMA Comments on EPA’s Maui Decision Groundwater Guidance Memo 

• AMA Comments supporting adding mining to FAST-41

• AMA Comments on Kensington Mine Amendment DSEIS

• AMA Comments on Greens Creek Northern Extension Project

• AMA Comments on Reissued and Modified Nationwide Permit

• AMA Applauds Total Tongass Forest Exemption from Roadless Rule​

• AMA comments on Stibnite Gold Project 

• AMA Comments on changes to Small Remote Incinerators

• AMA Comments on NPS Regulation Change to implement Sturgeon v. Frost

• AMA Comments USFS NEPA Compliance: 36 CFR Part 220: 84 Fed. Reg.114 27544 et. seq. RIN 0596-AD31

• AMA Press Release Welcomes Withdrawal of EPA’s Veto for Pebble

• AMA Supports EPA and Corps revised definition of “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS)

• AMA Letter to USDA re Tongass Exemption

• AMA Coalition Letter for Pebble DEIS 

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