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Mining hearing in Hurley next week

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Northern Wisconsin residents will now have an opportunity to weigh in on mining legislation.

Assembly Republicans previously faced criticism for holding their only public hearing near Milwaukee in southern Wisconsin. The proposed iron ore mine site is in Ashland and Iron Counties, hundreds of miles away.

The legislation is designed to streamline the approval process for that project. The Assembly jobs committee will hold the hearing on the bill next Wednesday in Hurley.

The hearing will take place just a few days after Democrats hold their own unofficial meeting on the bill in Ashland, which organizers says was needed because Republicans were showing no interest in the views of northern Wisconsin.

The Assembly is expected to begin debating the bill when members return to Madison later this month.

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