Subject: Standards for Natural Asset Companies: SR-NYSE-09 From: Ken Alexander, President, Eastern Oregon Mining Association Our Association OPPOSES the proposal under consideration by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that would allow for the creation and listing of a new type of company called a Natural Asset Company (NAC) on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE.) Forming National Asset Companies is a bad idea. More centralized government and corporate control over our lands will not only raise the cost of producing food, but it will also limit our ability to supply and utilize our natural resources to produce products. Corporate interests controlling land for non-productive uses will encourage more waste, and irrational regulation, by inefficient centralized government agencies. Excessive government regulation is already severely affecting the ability of our citizens to provide the minerals, and agricultural products, necessary for a prosperous society. Inviting the world’s richest people to have easier access to owning and controlling more of our resources is not a good idea.