NMA: kerry mineral fee proposal would export mining jobs, hurt economies of western state;;NMA: kerry mineral fee proposal would export mining jobs, hurt economies of western state

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Sen. John Kerry's (D-MA) proposal to impose a dollar 600 million fee on minerals operations on federal lands in the West would cost between 18,000 and 44,000 jobs and result in a net loss to the federal Treasury of dollar 400 million to dollar 500 million, based on independent analyses, NMA said this weekThe Kerry presidential campaign reportedly advised the media the dollar 600 million would come from an 8 percent royalty, a doubling of the annual claims maintenance fee and revisions to the Mining Law governing sale of mineral rights. Monies raised by the proposal would go to maintenance in the nation's parks and hoped-for jobs creation in associated service businesses