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To: craig crawford who wrote (888)	10/24/2001 2:12:44 PM
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US Interior Dept to ease hard-rock mining rules-source forbes.com Reuters, 10.24.01, 1:22 PM ET WASHINGTON, Oct 24 (Reuters) - The Interior Department is set to abandon new controls for hard-rock mining that would have let the U.S. government tighten environmental rules for gold, silver and copper removal on federally held lands, according to a U.S. environmental group. .................................................................................................................................. The rollback deals a severe blow to environmentalists who celebrated the Clinton-era rule as the first significant reform to mining regulations in two decades. Green groups say the Bush administration's revisions will make it impossible to define how much work mining companies need to do to quell environmental damage from chemicals after the mine is closed. And without specific standards, it will be difficult to define how much bond companies will need to post to cover the clean-up, they argue.