Scoping Summary Reports #1 and #2 Published

Scoping Summary Report #1 is a summary of the Coronado National Forest’s scoping efforts to solicit comments on the Proposed Action for the Rosemont Copper Project and to characterize the corresponding public participation. It is the first of three reports that describe the scoping and content analysis process. Federal agencies typically prepare one report to document this process. However, due to the the complexity of the Proposed Action and the correspondingly complex public comments, the Coronado National Forest decided to prepare three interrelated reports to more fully explain the scoping and content analysis process for the Rosemont Copper Project. This first report intends to do the following:

• explain the framework for scoping;
• detail the Coronado National Forest's outreach for public participation;
• identify and quantify the types of responses;
• quantify the geographic origin of submittals; and
• summarize the response submittals collected at meetings.

The second scoping report, Scoping Summary Report #2, Theme of Comments, will explain the content analysis process and provide an overview of the prominent themes identified in the public comments. The report will do the following:

• describe the methodology used to process response submissions;
• categorize the comments received during scoping into thematic groupings; and
• list comments grouped by category and subcategory.