112 HR 1904 IH: Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act of 2011
Introduced May 13, 2011
Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) has been working very hard to advance one of the best jobs bills out there: H.R. 1904, the "Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act" of 2011. Simply put, this bill would open up the third largest undeveloped copper resource in the world and provide 3,700 jobs and up to $1 billion annually in revenue over the life of the project.
It would do so by facilitating the creation of the largest copper mine in North America, by authorizing and directing an exchange of 2,400 acres of Federal land for more than 5,300 acres of high-value conservation land currently owned by Resolution Copper Mining. The transfer will protect the south end of a scenic escarpment above the Town of Superior, Arizona known as Apache Leap, and provide other environmentally significant parcels to the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management.
Although similar legislation has been proposed in previous sessions of Congress, Gosar is the first House lawmaker to successfully move the bill out of committee and on to the House floor for a vote. This is our chance to finally get a REAL job-creation bill passed in Congress!
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