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Randy Bates

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"It's, it's something that we haven't played with very much in the regulatory world, but it's something that has a lot of potential to streamline permitting, make it easier to get your permit, make it easier to get you active in the field."

“It's, it's something that we haven't played with very much in the regulatory world, but it's something that has a lot of potential to streamline permitting, make it easier to get your permit, make it easier to get you active in the field.”
Speaker
Randy Bates
Community
Alaska News
Location
Anchorage

From the transcript

So it's, it's something that we haven't played with very much in the regulatory world, but it's something that has a lot of potential to streamline permitting, make it easier to get your permit, make it easier to get you active in the field. So those are the types of issues we're looking at. And again, I just mentioned we have 100 years of experience in the mining world. We have to find a way to make sure we're looking even in that world where they have that much experience to see if there's ways to improve that process. And so anything we can do to improve that.

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