Show i Legislation Tends to Clear Mine Conflicts I New legislation entered Into the U. U S. S Senate by Senators senators senators' and Johnson of Colo Coto and Into the House by Representative Representative Wayne Aspinall of Colorado tends to clarify the conflict between oil and gas leases and uranium claims according according ac cording to an Associated Press release of yesterday According to the report an Interior Department stated that the Bureau of Land Mana Management ement would hold up further fur I ther decisions Invalidating the uranium claims filed on the leased lands This action followed fol lowed proposals of earlier In Inthe Inthe Inthe the week by the Colorado The action went even further the report states and suspends In cases where the Interior departments department's has already declared uranium leases null and void This action In part clears up the shaky situation that has been felt toy by y all In the uranium production industry since the matter of conflicting rights sprung up last year The three representatives made public a letter from Orme Lewis assistant Secretary of Interior In tenor which said in part Since legislation is being proposed which If enacted would change the status of these mining claims I am issuing ing instructions that all action with respect to validity of these mining claims be toe suspended pending the holding of hearings hear ings on the proposed legisla tion The mining claims c concern ed are on or the Colorado Plateau Pla PIa i a broad area consisting of Continued to Page 8 |