The Colorado Mining Association Education Foundation is happy to announce that we have expanded our two-day teacher workshops to both Golden and Leadville in June. The workshops were tremendously successful with 20 teachers at the Golden workshop and 10 at the Leadville workshop. The teachers taking the course provided lots of positive feedback about how much they learned and...
Never Stop Working
Colorado legislators and regulators never stop working even after the adjournment of the 2023 legislative session. Please see Dianna Orf’s legislative report for a complete wrap-up of the legislative session.
Times have certainly changed. In past years, lobbyists and others had great opportunities to visit the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs and Craig for two long...
Legislators departed Denver (except for those holding post-session press conferences) shortly after the May 8 adjournment. Then began the 30-day waiting period for the Governor to act on the bills presented to him. Although many were signed before the end of the session, within the 10-day window following their arrival on the Governor’s desk, a surprising number remained awaiting...
CMA President Stan Dempsey attended his second year of the 4-year Institute for Organization Management this past week. The Institute is an entity created by the U.S. Chamber to help develop Chamber and Association executives' professional development. This year he attended the sessions on the campus of University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin. The Institute curriculum this year included...
The Colorado Mining Association Education Foundation (CMAEF) is a 501(c)(3) organization created by the Colorado Mining Association (CMA) to educate K–12 teachers and related faculty on the current activities and involvement of the U.S. mining industry.
CMAEF’s program, All About Mining, began in 1968 on the Colorado School of Mines (CSM) campus in Golden, Colo., and is operated in conjunction with their...
May 16, 2023
DRMS Update
Legislative Report
Interim and other Legislative Committees
WOTUS Update (summary of discussion of Water Quality meeting discussion)
May 16, 2023
Federal Issues
WOTUS / Sackett Case
Army Corps’ Revised Draft OHWM Manual Industry Meeting (WOTUS) – June 2
NMA comments on EPA proposed cyanide CWA analytical methods
State Issues
WOTUS Task Force
COR900000 (non-extractive industry stormwater general permit) issued
COR400000 (construction stormwater general permit)
WQCD permits webinar recap
Legislative Issues
HB23-274 Water Quality Control Fee-setting By Rule
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The 2023 legislative session wrapped up Monday, May 8. During the last few days and nights of the session, lawmakers made decisions on how and who will determine how Colorado’s communities will govern local land use matters. Secondly, after procrastinating months with the knowledge that Coloradoans will experience massive increases in property tax assessments on their homes, Governor Polis...
During the April meeting of CMA’s Coal, Hardrock, & Uranium Committee, Julie Annear made a presentation on the restoration and preservation of the historic Caribou Cemetery. Located west of the town of Nederland, in Boulder County, the cemetery is the final resting place for dozens of miners and their families. The marble headstones marking the graves of the previous residents...