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• Support the passage of the Alternative Mining Act as promoted by progressive legislators.
• Regulate mining operations to make sure that they do not permanently damage the environment, harm human health, and fragment communities.
• Ensure compliance of the mining industry with the provisions for obtaining an Environmental Compliance Certificate (ECC), especially the requirement of social acceptability.
• Broaden the ownership-base of the mining industry to include substantial partnerships with affected communities and their citizens.
• Give priority to small-scale, community-owned mining operations that are ecological sound and socially responsible.
• Instruct the Department of Environment and Natural Resources to desist from issuing mining claims in watershed and ancestral domain areas.

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