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The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Idaho Falls District and the Caribou-Targhee National Forest will release the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) to the public for the Smoky Canyon Mine, Panels F & G beginning on October 17, 2007.
“A lot of effort has gone into this EIS to develop on-the-ground mining practices and methods that are state of the art,” stated Joe Kraayenbrink, BLM’s Idaho Falls District Manager. “The alternatives are designed to keep surface and ground water well within acceptable state and federal water quality standards. In the future, we should expect that mining and reclamation practices are held to an extremely high standard, and Smoky Canyon will be a trendsetter. It’s no longer business as usual.”
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-- Posted on Friday, October 19, 2007
