Letter: Require miners to clean up sites

Wednesday, April 2, 2003 | 8:51 a.m.

Assembly Bill 321, requiring mining companies to put up genuine financial assurances to fund cleanups in the event that a mine goes bankrupt, goes to the Assembly Committee on Natural Resources in Carson City this week.

Currently, corporate guarantees can take the form of a verbal promise, and the last thing our state and its citizens need is the potential liability to clean up after corporate interests, or tolerate potentially dangerous unreclaimed mine sites. The Legislature needs to pass AB321.

SUSAN CZOPEK Washoe Valley

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