President Biden is leaning toward designating a vast area near the Grand Canyon as a new national monument to safeguard it from uranium mining, according to five people familiar with the plans.
Leaders of local tribes and environmentalists have spent years lobbying to protect areas near the park from potential uranium mining, which they say threatens aquifers and water supplies.
They have asked Washington to double the protected area around the canyon by including 1.1 million acres of public lands in a Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni Grand Canyon National Monument.Biden is doing a western tour through Arizona next week. The White House has previously announced the president will make climate change and his environmental agenda a focus of his stops.
Federal officials have started telling tribal and environmental groups to be available for a potential Grand Canyon announcement early next week, which would fall during his travel, said four of the people, all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an announcement not yet public.Advocates have been lobbying for a monument designation in part to honor long-standing Native American connections to the Grand Canyon.
“This monument will show that we are beginning to protect the lands of the world,” Dianna Sue White Dove Uqualla, a Havasupai Tribal Council member, said in a statement anticipating the decision and provided by a coalition of monument advocates. Federal officials have not yet made clear the borders they will set for the designation, the people said. But two said Biden officials in recent weeks have signaled support for the outstanding proposal. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland
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