ELR Citation: ELR 20258
No(s). 11970 (Mont. Mar 15, 1971)

The exemption of open pit mining, of strip mining for coal, of irrigation water exits and of gravel extraction from the Montana Dredge Mining Regulation and Land Preservation Act of 1969 violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, because the exempted mining techniques are as harmful...