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Montana River Action - Home Page
...The MRA News... Download your copy now... State of The State Rivers [748MB -- pdf file] This is the latest information--published February 2008. Much of the info in this e-publication is an update to the MRA web pages on this...
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Total Maximum Daily Load
...Total Maximum Daily Load A recently released list of impaired and threatened waters in need of water quality restoration determined that 431 water bodies in Montana are so polluted they do not support fishing, swimming or drinking....
http://www.montanariveraction.org/tmdl.html

Legislation Sharing Water Defeated -- Fisheries Bill Montana 2009
...Legislation Sharing Water Defeated House Bill 275 the Emergency Streamflow for Important Fisheries bill was tabled by the House Natural Resources Committee on February 2, 2009. An opportunity was lost to provide a solution to the...
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Stream Access Law
...The Stream Access Law In 1984, the Montana Supreme Court ruled that recreationists and scientists are entitled to use streams capable of supporting recreation activities. This was followed by the 1985 Stream Access Law HB-265 (also...
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Water Quality Strengthening and Enforcement
...Water Quality Strengthening and Enforcement Montanans have a constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment. Montana state water quality standards must be strengthened and enforced to the same levels that were in place...
http://www.montanariveraction.org/clean.waters.html

1872 Mining Law
...Reform 1872 Mining Law 1. General There is a national need for Congress to reform the antiquated Federal Mining Law of 1872. For over 124 years mining companies have removed billions of dollars worth of gold, silver and other minerals...
http://www.montanariveraction.org/1872.mining.law.html

Toxic Substances in the Environment
...Toxic Substances in the Environment Toxic pesticides within stream sediments and in aquatic organisms pose significant threats to ecosystems and human health. In 1998 Montana ranked 20th in the nation in the amount of toxic substances...
http://www.montanariveraction.org/toxic.substances.html

Roundup Coal-Fired Power Plant
...Roundup Coal-Fired Power Plant And Coal-Fired Power Plants In Montana Also see: Coal To Liquid Synfuels & Musselshell -- An Endangered River Musselshell River The town of Roundup is situated on the banks of the...
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Dewatered Streams of Montana
...Dewatered Streams of Montana Chronic Dewatering streams - 2,835 miles Periodic Dewatering streams - 1,387 miles This map shows dewatered streams that are significantly reduced in streamflow below the point where aquatic life and...
http://www.montanariveraction.org/water-instream-map.html

Dearborn River Report - Montana River Action
...Dearborn River A Report by Adam Johnson, volunteer Montana Rivers Watcher From the report... Introduction The purpose of this report is to document current conditions in the Dearborn River watershed on behalf of the...
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Flathead Lake Pollution
...Flathead Lake Pollution The plan recently drafted by the Montana Department of Environmental Quality for pollution reduction in the north half of Flathead Lake merely relies on voluntary measures rather than good hard-nosed...
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Saving the Yellowstone River
...Saving the Yellowstone River Eighteen individual conservation groups, Montana River Action among them, came together in July 2001 to launch a plan to øSave the Yellowstone River.Ó From where the Yellowstone River flows out of...
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Mining Reclamation
...The mining industry is the top toxic polluter in Montana. The industry should be made to pay up front for the inevitable full reclamation and cleanup costs. Like a long-range insurance policy, bonds should be large enough to cover the...
http://www.montanariveraction.org/mining.reclamation.html

Acquiring Private Lands in River Corridors
...Acquiring Private Lands in River Corridors A stream is more than flowing water. It includes headwater drainage basins, tributaries, wetlands, the floodplains with their gallery cottonwood bottoms, all the way down to its confluence...
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Missouri River Breaks National Monument Questioned by the Governor
...Judy Martz, Montana Governor Missouri River Breaks National Monument Questioned by the Governor This page will be updated soon (Former) Governor Judy Martz is still debating the boundaries of the Upper Missouri Breaks National...
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Montana River Action Search Page
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Toxins
...Toxins Toxic pesticides within stream sediments and in aquatic organisms are persistent and significant to ecosystem and human health. DDT and other organo-chlorine pesticides are still commonly found more than 25 years after their use...
http://www.montanariveraction.org/toxins.html

Save The Missouri River Breaks
...Save the Missouri River Breaks In 1806 Meriweather Lewis wrote of the White Cliffs area, "the hills and river cliffs which we passed today exhibit a most romantic appearance." The 149-mile Missouri Breaks still retain much of their...
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Bud Lilly Honored
...A Salute to Bud Lilly Bud Lilly, pioneer sportsman and director of Montana River Action, is renowned as a river, stream and trout conservationist and widely known as trout s best friend. Bud started the catch and release philosophy in...
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Septic tanks and sewage treatment - State Of The State's Rivers 2001 - Montana
...Septic Tanks and Sewage Treatment Montana has experienced a ten percent increase in population since the 1990 census. This is resulting in an acceleration of the dispersal of the cities and towns into rural foothills where...
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Paddlefish
...Paddlefish Paddlefish are a species older than dinosaurs. They live in the Missouri and lower Yellowstone River’s roiling waters, feeding on microscopic zooplankton and filtering water through their gill rakers. Their long,...
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The Missouri River
...The Missouri River At the junction of the Jefferson, Madison and Gallatin rivers at Three Forks begins the Missouri River, flowing 2,464 miles to its mouth at St. Louis, Missouri. The three forks have been the goal of many travelers,...
http://www.montanariveraction.org/missouri.river.html

The Failure Of Montana Power Company
...The Failure Of Montana Power Company MPC was built with money from citizens' pockets as a public utility with guaranteed profits of 13%. The whole snafu started when the 1997 legislature passed Senate Bill 390, the so-called "Energy...
http://www.montanariveraction.org/sorry.saga.mpc.html

Emergency Stream Flow For Fisheries Bill Montana 2009
...Emergency Streamflow For Fisheries Bill 2009 Introduction Sharing water in drought emergencies to sustain important fisheries, spawning and fish-rearing habitats is a fair and beneficial use of water. It is in the economic and social...
http://www.montanariveraction.org/water-rights-proposal.

Whirling Disease
...Whirling Disease Myzobolus Cerebralis Whirling disease was first found in the Middle Fork of the Snake River and in 1990 it showed up in Yellowstone National Park following the fires of 1988, where it may have entered on...
http://www.montanariveraction.org/whirling.disease.html

Using the Conservation Reserve Program for Cleaner Streams
...Using the Conservation Reserve Program for Cleaner Streams A strategy for restoring riparian wetlands and native plants by creating a filter strip along a stream for trapping farm sediment and agricultural chemicals. Funding from the...
http://www.montanariveraction.org/conservation.reserve.html

Montana Water Law
...Montana Water Law Water is a precious and scarce public resource and a valuable common good. It flows across political and private boundaries and, like the air we breath, water must remain unpolluted. To retain its purity water must...
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Gallatin River - Outstanding Resource Water ORW
...Gallatin River Outstanding Resource Water also see: Gallatin River / Big Sky Montana now has the opportunity to designate the Gallatin River as its first Outstanding Resource Water (ORW). It would provide protection from having the...
http://www.montanariveraction.org/outstanding-resource.html

Yellowstone River
...Yellowstone River From where the Yellowstone River flows out of Yellowstone National Park, all along its pathway to the Missouri River in North Dakota, home construction and rigid flow control structures impact the 670-mile length...
http://www.montanariveraction.org/yellowstone.river.html

Arctic Grayling
...Arctic Grayling Will They Be Delisted? The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) will determine by April of 2007, if the fluvial arctic grayling should be protected under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The Center for Biological...
http://www.montanariveraction.org/arctic.grayling.html

Trout Need Cold Water
...Trout Need Cold Water To keep streams cool we must keep soils cool. Rain hitting warmed ground can be heated 10 degrees by the time it flows into streams. Bare soil gets 15 degrees hotter than vegetated ground on hot summer days....
http://www.montanariveraction.org/trout.need.cold.water.

A Letter From The MRA President
...Letter from MRA President December, 2006 Dear River Lovers, Montana has a wealth of clean, clear, cold, sweet flowing streams that originate in the mountains and flow down to the valleys and prairies to become the lifeblood of...
http://www.montanariveraction.org/message.mra.president.

Links To Montana River & Water Sites
...Links to Montana River & Water Information... Montana Natural Resource Information System (NRIS) A program of Montana State Library, NRIS makes information on Montana's natural resources easily accessible via the internet. These are...
http://www.montanariveraction.org/links.water.info.maps.

New Zealand Mud Snails in Madison
...New Zealand Mud Snails in Madison Mud snails in the Madison River probably came accidentally from the muddy boots of an angler that was wading in the mid-Snake River and then soon went fishing in the Madison. The snails are very tiny...
http://www.montanariveraction.org/new.zealand.mud....

Keeping Water In Streams
...Keeping Water In Streams Click For Larger Map Year-round flowing streams are an important economic benefit to the public and adjacent communities. We are all responsible for helping resolve the instream flow...
http://www.montanariveraction.org/water.insteam.flow.html

Musselshell - An Endangered River
...Musselshell -- An Endangered River Also: The Roundup Coal-Fired Power Plant & Coal To Liquid Synfuels The Musselshell River rises near the middle of the state, 25 miles west of Martinsdale. The dewatered channel slopes east to...
http://www.montanariveraction.org/musselshell.river.html

Big Sky Yellowstone Club, Moonlight Basin, Gallatin Peaks Land Development
...Big Sky Developers Violate Natural Resource Laws Tim Blixseth's Yellowstone Club at Big Sky In 1992, Plum Creek Timber Co., a subsidiary of Northern Pacific Rail Road Company sold their lands on the Gallatin National Forest to...
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Gallatin River and Big Sky
...Gallatin River / Big Sky also see: Outstanding Resource Water In the 1860s, following the Civil War, the federal government granted large tracts of land to the Northern Pacific Railroad. Following World War II, the U.S.A....
http://www.montanariveraction.org/gallatin.river.html

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's Bozeman Fish Technology Center
...U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's Bozeman Fish Technology Center History The Bozeman Fish Technology Center, formerly Bozeman National Fish Hatchery, is located at the entrance to Bridger Canyon, about 4 miles northeast of Bozeman on...
http://www.montanariveraction.org/fish-tech-center.html

Coal To Liquid Synfuels in Montana
...Coal To Liquid Synfuels Coal to liquid synfuels is a process using high temperature and pressure to convert coal first into a syn-gas and then into diesel or aviation fuel or other petroleum products. Supposedly, this is clean coal...
http://www.montanariveraction.org/coal-synfuels.html

Water Leasing for Instream Flows
...Water Leasing for Instream Flows The 1989 Legislature passed House Bill 707, a 4-year pilot pro-gram allowing Montana State Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FW ) and Department of Natural Resources and Con-servation (DNRC) to...
http://www.montanariveraction.org/water-leasing.html

The Clean Water Act and TMDL
...The Clean Water Act and TMDL The goal of the federal Clean Water Act (CWA) is to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the nation's waters. There are four specific objectives within this general...
http://www.montanariveraction.org/clean.water.act.html

Rock Creek on The Clark Fork Subdivision
...Rock Creek on the Clark Fork Subdivision Oregon developer Michael Barnes came in from out of state, telling local people he was an environmentalist but then, without any permits from the state, dug a 5-acre pond at the confluence of...
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Removing The Dam At Milltown, Montana
...Removing The Dam At Milltown, Montana The federal Environmental Protection Agency expects Milltown Dam to be dismantled in the winter of 2006-2007. Then comes the disposal of 6,600,000 cubic yards of toxic waste mud from 160 years of...
http://www.montanariveraction.org/milltown.dam.html

Prickly Pear Creek
...Prickly Pear Creek Lead from ASARCO’s (American Smelter & Refining Co.) smokestacks has been settling down on the town of East Helena and Prickly Pear Creek for years. Lead-contaminated soils from house yards have been excavated by...
http://www.montanariveraction.org/prickly.pear.creek.html

Hebgen Lake
...Hebgen Lake The Grayling Arm of Hebgen Lake is shallow and subject to warming and producing a poisonous blue-green algae bloom which kills dogs and cattle when they drink the water. A private developer, Duck Creek Properties, owning...
http://www.montanariveraction.org/hebgen.lake.html

Water
...Water Water is highly dynamic. It tends to flow, evaporate, transpire, condense, freeze, sublimate, absorb, precipitate in an ever-changing state. About 70% of the Earth�s surface is water. About 70% of the human body is water. The...
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Madison River - New Zealand Mud Snails in Madison
...Madison River New Zealand Mud Snails in Madison Mud snails in the Madison River probably came over on a fisherman’s waders, picked up in the mud of New Zealand. The snails are very tiny and highly reproductive. The problem is created...
http://www.montanariveraction.org/madison.river.html

Weakened Water Law
...Weakened Water Law Water Allocation Law now takes Precedence over Environment Montana State Department of Natural Resources and Conservation (DNRC), Water Rights Division, recently granted a water use permit to a Hutterite colony...
http://www.montanariveraction.org/weakened.water.law.html

A History of Stream Access in Montana
...A History of Stream Access In 1803, President Jefferson purchased a large part of the West from France; explorers, trappers and traders had access to streams without question. Of course, Indians held this right long before. In 1889,...
http://www.montanariveraction.org/stream-access-history.

Big Blackfoot River
...Big Blackfoot River In ancient times, the Blackfoot River Canyon was used by the Bitterroot Salish Indians from the Bitterroot Valley and the Nez Perce Indians from the Weippe Prairie in Idaho as a travel way in the fall to hunt the...
http://www.montanariveraction.org/big.blackfoot.river.html

Bitterroot River
...Bitterroot River Mitchell Sough Access Shut Off by New Landowners The Bitterroot River Protective Association filed a suit in District Judge Mizner’s Court in Deerlodge, claiming Mitchell Slough is a historic, 11 miles long side...
http://www.montanariveraction.org/bitterroot-river.html

Murphy Water Rights
...Murphy Water Rights Established by the Montana State Legislature in 1967, Murphy Water Rights appropriated stream-flow amounts necessary for the preservation of fish and wildlife habitats, which have a priority of right over other...
http://www.montanariveraction.org/murphy-water-rights.html

Clark Fork of the Columbia
...Clark Fork of the Columbia Silver Bow Creek / Smurfit - Stone Container Corp. / Rock Creek Mine / Subdivsions / Milltown Dam Early settlers were impressed by the crystal clear waters and the abundant native trout of the Clark Fork,...
http://www.montanariveraction.org/clark.fork.river.html

Coal Bed Methane Development in Montana
...Impacts expected to be huge Coal Bed Methane Development in Montana The wave of Coal Bed Methane (CBM) development that hit Montana recently will have huge impacts in the years ahead. It is reminiscent of the natural resource...
http://www.montanariveraction.org/coal.bed.methane.html

The Future Of Life
...The Future Of Life E.O. Wilson says in his book “The Future of Life depends on figuring out profitable ways to reconcile the needs of the poor of the world with the needs to preserve biodiversity.” The cheapest and sanest way to...
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Jefferson River
...Jefferson River The Jefferson River can be a nationally important trout fishery and a valuable resource to visitors in Gallatin, Madison and Beaverhead counties. It has the largest drainage area of the three forks of the Missouri....
http://www.montanariveraction.org/jefferson.river.html

History of Montana River Action
...History Of Montana River Action On March 14, 1992, as a result of stream de-watering in 1991, a number of statewide and locally concerned organizations came together and formulated plans to protect Montana's streams against drying up...
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Rattlesnake Creek
...Rattlesnake Creek Rattlesnake Creek is the source of much of Missoula's municipal drinking water. It is a historic cutthroat and bull trout spawning stream. In 1903 Montana Power Company built a dam across the stream for the purpose of...
http://www.montanariveraction.org/rattlesnake.creek.html

Beaverhead River & Clark Canyon Reservoir
...Beaverhead River & Clark Canyon Reservoir 57 miles of the Red Rock River between Lima Dam and Clark Canyon Reservoir were closed to fishing on October 1, 2001 to protect spawning brown trout after two previous, disastrous summers of...
http://www.montanariveraction.org/beaverhead.river.html

Yellowstone River Diversion Dam
...Yellowstone River Diversion Dam The Pennsylvania Power and Light Company (PP ) of Allentown, Pennsylvania, is applying for permits from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Montana Department of Environmental Quality, the Yellowstone...
http://www.montanariveraction.org/yellowstone....

Powder River
...Powder River Coal Bed Methane (CBM) drilling in the Powder River Basin is being permitted by the Montana State Board of Oil and Gas Conservation under the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation on 10,000 acres of BLM, Montana...
http://www.montanariveraction.org/powder.river.html

Visions For The Montana State Legislature
...Vision for Montana State Legislature Montanans have a constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment -- our strongest asset for economic development is its clean water. The Legislature must strengthen and enforce state...
http://www.montanariveraction.org/visions-2003.html

Methods to Protect Rivers and Streams
...Methods to Protect Rivers and Streams • Assemble comprehensive maps and data of the stream’s biological, geological, social, cultural, political and land use components. This will help in understanding the opportunities and problems...
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Smith River
...Smith River Looking down Smith River from Pictograph Cave. The Smith River rises out of the south end of the Little Belt Mountains and flows 118 miles north to its confluence with the Missouri, 9 miles above Great Falls at...
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Pallid Sturgeon Of The Missouri
...Pallid Sturgeon Of The Missouri There are only 50 native specimens of pallid sturgeon remaining on the Upper Missouri River between Great Falls and Fort Peck Reservoir. If nothing is done to replenish their numbers, they will become...
http://www.montanariveraction.org/pallid.sturgeon.html

Pollution Dilution Not A Solution
...Pollution Dilution Not A Solution Pollution mixing zones are streams or bodies of water where polluters (industrial, municipal or individual) can legally obtain a permit to dump bio-accumulative chemicals, sewage, mining waste water at...
http://www.montanariveraction.org/pollution.dilution.html

Superfund Site Designation
...Superfund Site Designation Montana has nine Superfund sites the EPA has designated: Bozeman-Idaho Pole plant, penta leaks into ground and groundwater. Butte, Anaconda-mining waste from 150 years of mining reaching to Milltown dam....
http://www.montanariveraction.org/superfund.site....

Sewage
...Sewage Montana's real estate booms create a mountain of sewage. Montana Department of Environmental Quality (MTDEQ) is overwhelmed with applications for sewage disposal systems, so much so that most systems have been built without an...
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Law Suit Settled Over Montana's Water Quality
...Law suit settled over Montana’s Water Quality A law suit was filed by five Montana environmental groups against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for tolerating the failure of Montana’s Department of Environmental Quality...
http://www.montanariveraction.org/water-quality-suit.html

Smith River Special Privilege for Landowners
...Smith River Special Privilege for Landowners Landowners adjacent to the Smith River have applied to the Montana State Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission for a ruling that would establish a right for landowners to obtain special...
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Prayer For Montana
...Prayer For Montana Beloved Grandfather Creator, I place in your loving hands the beautiful state of Montana that you gave us. Help us to heal and protect the air, the earth, the water -- especially in the wild forest and prairie...
http://www.montanariveraction.org/prayer.for.montana.html

Initiative 147 Defeated
...Initiative 147 Defeated Initiative 147, intended to return open-pit, cyanide heap-leach mining to Montana, was resoundingly defeated in the November 2004 elections by 256,658 against 185,695 votes, a 58% against 42% victory. Canyon...
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Volunteer River Watchers Needed!
...Volunteer River Watchers Needed! Montana River Action is looking for volunteers to become Montana River Watchers. As a River Watcher, you would oversee a river, stream, or lake for signs of pollution, degradation, misuse, or other...
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Kootenai River
...Kootenai River The Kootenai River basin is an international watershed encompassing about 18,000 square miles or 11,520,000 acres. The river originates in British Columbia’s Kootenay National Park, north of Mt. Assiniboine, the highest...
http://www.montanariveraction.org/kootenai.river.html

Wisdom On The Big Hole River
...Wisdom On The Big Hole River The town of Wisdom on the Upper Big Hole River is trying to raise money to move its sewage lagoons out of the river floodplain to higher ground on State of Montana land. This as a result of an order from...
http://www.montanariveraction.org/wisdom.big.hole.html

Coalbed Methane Defeated At Bozeman Pass
...Coalbed Methane Defeated At Bozeman Pass Good news! J. M. Huber Corp. has given up its effort to pursue coalbed methane drilling in the pass area by signing a legal settlement. The debate was focused on what to do with groundwater,...
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Prairie Streams In Eastern Montana
...Prairie Streams In Eastern Montana There are 4,200 warm water prairie streams, totaling 18,000 miles, in Montana's vast prairie ecosystem. An initial survey, started in 2003 by Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife & Parks, revealed...
http://www.montanariveraction.org/prairie.streams.html

Big Hole River And Endangered Grayling
...Big Hole River The Big Hole River holds the last remaining native population of river-dwelling Arctic grayling in the lower 48 states. On November 6, 2003, MT Dept. of Fish, Wildlife & Parks reopened a 19-mile stretch of the upper...
http://www.montanariveraction.org/big.hole.river.html

Smart Water Use
...Smart Water Use All across Montana urban water use is steeply growing in line with the demands of exploding town populations. Growing urban water demand is stressing natural stream systems and endangering water-dependent species. The...
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MRA Board Of Directors & Affiliations
...Board Of Directors & Affiliations Montana River Action is a nonprofit river advocacy, conservation organization formed to protect Montana's streams and other water bodies from misuse, pollution and overuse. MRA is governed by a...
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Join Montana River Action
...MRA respectfully thanks you for supporting Montana River Action. We hope you will continue to support our goals of protection and restoration of Montana’s rivers. Streams supply most of our municipal drinking waters. They support the...
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Federal Government Gold Policies
...Federal Government Gold Policies The federal government continues to hold 8,600 tons of national gold reserves. Selling significant portions of gold reserves could result in a huge financial payoff to taxpayers and prevent future...
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