Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 24/09/1996

Stillwater Mining Company Tailing Impoundment Expansion, Stillwater County, MT

The USDA, Forest Service, as co-lead agency with the Montana Department of Environmental Quality (MT DEQ) will cooperatively participate in the preparation of an environmental impact statement (EIS). The EIS will disclose the environmental effects due to construction and operation of a new tailing impoundment facility located approximately 7 miles northeast of the present Stillwater Mine facility. The area involved in this proposal involves both federal land, administered by the Forest Service, and private lands over which the MT Department of Environmental Quality has jurisdiction. The Director of the Montana Department of Environmental Quality and the Custer National Forest Supervisor are the officials responsible for approving SMC's proposal to construct and operate its tailing storage facility and other associated structures which are discussed in this Scoping Statement. The Forest Supervisor has the authority for regulating all activities and uses of National Forest system lands. The Custer National Forest Supervisor will decide whether to approve Stillwater Mining Company's amendment to their approved Plan of Operations as detailed in the Proposed Action, or whether to approv