Boundary Waters Wilderness Protection & Mining Withdrawal
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Evidence log
- 2025-01-21 — Boundary Waters Wilderness Protection and Pollution Prevention Act: Boundary Waters Wilderness Protection and Pollution Prevention Act (introduced) would permanently withdraw ~225,504 acres in Minnesota’s Rainy River Watershed (Superior National Forest) from mining and mineral leasing to protect water quality upstream of the BWCAW, while allowing limited sand, granite, iron ore, and taconite removal conditioned on no harm to habitat and water/air quality. (novelty: 2)
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Boundary Waters Wilderness Protection and Pollution Prevention Act
21-jan-2025
novelty 2
per-area 2
introduces