The AMA Federal Oversight Committee meets Tuesdays at 3:30 pm 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 2026 Federal Issues of Concern

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• AMA Comments on Tongass Land Management Plan revision

• AMA Comments on USFS Objection Process

• AMA Comments on CWA 401 Certification Proposed Rule

• AMA Comments on Updated Definition of WOTUS 2026

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AMA'S FEDERAL ADVOCACY EFFORTS - 2025

• AMA Comments on Graphite Creek 404 permit application 

• AMA Action Alert: Graphite Creek Project Comment Deadline 11/28/25

              - Example Letter

• Governor Dunleavy letter to President on Roadless Rule 

• Alaska Miners Association applauds decision to forward Ambler Road Project

• AMA Comments on removal of Roadless Rule on National Forests including Alaska 

• AMA testimony to US House Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight & Investigations 

• AMA Support for SPEED Act 

• U.S. House Natural Resources Committee, Alaska mining leaders discuss permitting, reforms at Anchorage roundtable

• AMA Comment response to DOI Request for Information on Reducing Regulatory Burdens

• AMA Comments on OMB Request for Information on deregulation

• AMA Comments on Herbert Glacier cabin project

• AMA Comments on House Natural Resources Reconciliation

• AMA Comments on WOTUS

• AMA Comments on BLM Alaska National Scenic Long Trail

• AMA Comments on CEQ Interim Final Rule to move NEPA Regulations

• AMA Comments on Army Corps permit at Portage Creek in West Susitna

• AMA Support Letter for DOE Grant at Terra Project 

• Joint Industry Letter King Cove Road Draft SEIS 

• AMA Letter on Wade Creek Restoration Project

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AMA'S FEDERAL ADVOCACY EFFORTS - 2024

• Resource Industry Coalition Letter on Chinook Salmon ESA Status Review 

• AMA Comments on NPS Right of Way proposed rule

• Resource Trade Groups Joint Statement on Ambler ROD

• AMA Protest to Central Yukon RMP and FEIS 

      2014 AMA Comments on Central Yukon RMP Scoping 

      2014 AMA Comments on Request for Central Yukon RMP ACEC nominations 

      2017 AMA Comments on Central Yukon RMP Preliminary Alternatives Concept 

      2021 AMA Comments on Draft Central Yukon RMP  and EIS

• AMA Comments on permit application for exploration at Aqqaluk pit 

• AMA Ambler Reaction Press Release

• AMA Comments on Ambler Access Project Area of Potential Effects 

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

• AMA Comments on USFS land management for old growth forests 

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AMA'S FEDERAL ADVOCACY EFFORTS - 2023

• AMA Comments on Ambler Road Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (DSEIS)

• Action Alert: Ambler Access Project Draft SEIS Comment Deadline 12/22/23​

• 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

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AMA'S FEDERAL ADVOCACY EFFORTS - 2022

• 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

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AMA'S FEDERAL ADVOCACY EFFORTS - 2021

• 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 

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AMA'S FEDERAL ADVOCACY EFFORTS - 2020

• 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

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AMA'S FEDERAL ADVOCACY EFFORTS - 2019

• 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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