April 1, 2020 Yesterday, March 31, six Bay Area counties (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Santa Clara, San Francisco [County/City], and San Mateo) and one city (Berkeley) issued an updated shelter-in-place order. THE ORDER IS IDENTICAL FOR EACH COUNTY/…
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July 2018 The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (“Service”) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Marine Fisheries Service (together “Agencies”) have jointly proposed revisions to regulations that implement por…
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Public Resources Code §§ 2774, 2774.2.5 June 2018 On June 27, 2018, Governor Brown approved changes to the Surface Mining and Reclamation Act (Pub. Resources Code § 2710, et seq [“SMARA”]) relating to how certain mine-related information is su…
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Harrison, Temblador, Hungerford & Guernsey LLP has a new address: 2801 T Street Sacramento, CA 95816 All firm phone numbers and email addresses remain the same. Please call (916) 382-4377 or email info@hthglaw.com with any questions.
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Joe and Yvette Hardesty and the Jay Schneider family were awarded more than $100 million in damages against Sacramento County in federal court on Tuesday, March 21. The litigation was one in a long line of lawsuits and administrative actions concerni…
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The Legislature recently passed the most significant reforms to SMARA in more than 20 years, as we detailed in a prior post here. These reform measures touch every key process in SMARA, including the reclamation plan review and approval process, the…
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SMARA REFORMS SIGNED INTO LAW Governor Brown just signed into law the most significant reforms to SMARA in more than 20 years. Join mining attorney Brad Johnson and lead agencies, consultants, and mine operators for a half-day seminar on the New SMAR…
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Two companion bills that together would enact the most significant reforms in more than twenty years to California’s mining law, the Surface Mining and Reclamation Act (“SMARA”), are headed to the Senate and Assembly floors for a final vote. As…
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The 2015-2016 legislative session is settling in now that the February 27 deadline to introduce new legislation has passed. Three bills propose amendments to the Surface Mining and Reclamation Act (“SMARA”). 1. SB 209. The first, SB 209, is autho…
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Senator Fran Pavley (D-Agoura Hills) recently introduced Senate Bill 1270, legislation intended to overhaul the way surface mining is regulated in California. The current version of SB 1270 can be found here. SB 1270 proposes to alter SMARA in three…
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