Leon Frazier, Provo, Utah, Uranium History Series

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LEON FRAZIER #2 and water comes into it as well, doesn't it? I mean, the water right especially in the western United States? LF: Well, I'll tell you one thing that I think they're going to add that is the concept that I haven't even read anything about, but I got to thinking about it this morning after this film I saw out at Geneva Steel Company. It may be that the mining law of the future ought to have it in some definite provisions for protection of the ecology. Well, some of them adopted it during the uranium boom. They found it wasn't necessary to dig all these pits, and so they'd maybe drill two-inch drill holes instead of a fifteen-by-thirty-foot pit, you see. Now if somebody's going in and developing the property, it may be that part of the future requirements will be that you not destroy the vegetation, not take off any more than a certain percentage of the timber in your mining because in the past, you see, the old mining laws gave you enough of the timber to build your mills and your films and whatever you needed on your property. And if you followed some of those today, of course, you'd really tear up the landscape, you see. ---?--- protections of pollution and so forth. I think that they are becoming more concerned about 44