Reverses a federal mining ban on land in Minnesota's Superior National Forest

§1What it does

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This bill would cancel a federal land order that bars mining on certain Forest Service land in Cook, Lake and St. Louis counties in Minnesota.^2,3 It would require the Forest Service to reissue canceled mineral leases, preference right leases and prospecting permits for land in the Superior National Forest, and it would bar courts from reviewing those reissued leases and permits.^2,3 It would also give the Forest Service 18 months to finish the environmental and other reviews of mining plans in the forest, counted from the bill's enactment for plans already submitted and from submission for plans filed during the following seven years.^2,3

§2Status

§3How Congress voted

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