U.S. House hearing on mineral resources includes Resolution Copper land exchange

The Resolution Copper land exchange bill (HR687) will have a hearing in the U.S. House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources Oversight Hearing on “America’s Mineral Resources: Creating Mining and Manufacturing Jobs and Securing America” and Legislative Hearing on H.R. 1063, H.R. 687, H.R. 697, H.R. 761, H.R. 767, H.R. 957 and H.R. 981
Thursday, March 21, 2013 10:00 AM
 http://naturalresources.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=323498

Oversight Hearing on:

• “America’s Mineral Resources: Creating Mining and Manufacturing Jobs and Securing America”

And Legislative Hearing on these bills of interest to Arizona:

• H.R. 1063 (Lamborn), To require the Secretary of the Interior to conduct an assessment of the capability of the Nation to meet our current and future demands for the minerals critical to United States manufacturing and agricultural competitiveness and economic and national security in a time of expanding resource nationalism, and for other purposes. ‘‘National Strategic and Critical Minerals Policy Act of 2013’’
• H.R. 687 (Gosar/Kirkpatrick), To facilitate the efficient extraction of mineral resources in southeast Arizona by authorizing and directing an exchange of Federal and non-Federal land, and for other purposes. “Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act of 2013”
• H.R. 761 (Amodei), To require the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to more efficiently develop domestic sources of the minerals and mineral materials of strategic and critical importance to United States economic and national security and manufacturing competitiveness. “Critical and Strategic Minerals Production Act”
• H.R. 767 (Cramer), To amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to modify the Pilot Project offices of the Federal Permit Streamlining Pilot Project.
• H.R. 981 (Johnson of GA and Markey), To direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a global rare earth element assessment, and for other purposes. “Resource Assessment of Rare Earths Act of 2013” 
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• [extracted from the House Subcommittee website]