Media Announcements
The Coronado National Forest has extended the formal comment period through January 31, 2012.
The final public meeting for the Rosemont Copper Project Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) will be held on January 14th at the Sahuarita District Auditorium, 350 W Sahuarita Road, Sahuarita, AZ, from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM. The formal 90 day public review and comment period ends on January 31, 2012.
The next three public meetings for the Rosemont Copper Project Draft Environmental Impact Statement will be held on December 7th, 8th and 10th.
The purpose of these meetings is to provide information about the project and solicit public input on the project’s Environmental Impact Statement. Both written and oral comments will be taken at these meetings. For those wishing to make oral comment, speaker cards will be taken for the first hour of each meeting.
The next public meeting to share information and hear public comments is scheduled for Thursday, December 1, 2011, in Corona de Tucson. The meeting will be held at the Corona Foothills Middle School, 16705 S. Houghton Road from 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM.
The Coronado National Forest is accepting public comments on the Rosemont Copper Project Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) in a variety of formats. The DEIS is available online at www.RosemontEIS.us. Citizens are encouraged to review the document before submitting comments. Although comments may be submitted by various methods, citizens need only provide comments once for them to receive full consideration. The 90-day comment period began on October 21, following publication of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Notice of Availability of the DEIS in the Federal Register.
Two public meetings regarding the Rosemont Copper Project Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) are being rescheduled due to potential conflicts with local events. The first and last meetings, scheduled to be held at the Desert Diamond Conference Center in Sahuarita, Arizona on October 22 and January 7, have been postponed. One has been rescheduled and arrangements are being made for the second meeting and a possible additional meeting.
Two public meetings regarding the Rosemont Copper Project Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) will be rescheduled. The first and last meetings, scheduled to be held at the Desert Diamond Conference Center in Sahuarita, Arizona on October 22 and January 7, have been postponed and will be rescheduled.
The Coronado National Forest will soon be accepting public comments on the Rosemont Copper Project Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) in a variety of formats. The DEIS is available online at www.fs.fed.us/r3/coronado and is expected to be available October 14 at www.RosemontEIS.us. Mailings began this week. Citizens are encouraged to read the DEIS before submitting comments. Although comments may be submitted in many ways, citizens need only provide comments once for them to receive full consideration. The 90-day comment period is expected to begin on October 22, following publication of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Notice of Availability of the DEIS in the Federal Register.
The Rosemont Copper Project Draft Environmental Impact Statementi will be made available for public review in October, 2011, initiating a 90-day public comment period. The Coronado National Forest will host six public meetings starting in October.
The Coronado National Forest has posted an updated timeline for the Rosemont Copper Project on the Schedule for Proposed Actions (SOPA). See new timeline here.