ARPA Member, Tom Lowry of CalPortland has been appointed a member of the Ad Hoc Committee on Mining Regulations. Tom will be serving on the committee with Arizona State Senators and Representatives, the State Land Commissioner, the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality, the Arizona Department of Water Resources, the Arizona State Mine Inspector, the Arizona Department of Mines and Mineral Resources and the Arizona Department of Health Services to  review administrative regulations of the mining industry with particular attention to administrative rules that affect the

development and operation of mine and mineral resources.  The committee will make recommendations for streamlining and coordinating administrative  procedures, sharing information among agencies, relieving unnecessary governmental burdens, generating investment in the mining industry, as well as creating a centralized database of information on lands that would enable shared access, storage, retrieval and archiving of information. Work for this committee begins today in the House of Representatives.