Black Hills National Forest, Mystic Ranger District, South Dakota, Section 30 Limestone Mining Project

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A Plan of Operation has been submitted by Pete Lien and Sons, Inc., for the purpose of mining for chemical grade limestone within mining claims on National Forest System land. The proposal is to mine within Pennington County, South Dakota, totaling approximately 100 acres about one mile north of the northwest boundary of Rapid City, South Dakota. The original Notice of Intent for this project was published in Federal Register (71FR62989) on Friday, October 27, 2006. A Corrected Notice of Intent to prepare an EIS was published in the Federal Register (74FR51550) on Wednesday, October 7, 2009. That first Corrected Notice of Intent was republished due to time lapse between the estimated schedule in the original Notice of Intent and the revised estimated Draft and Final EIS publication dates. A Notice of Availability for the Section 30 Limestone Mining Project Draft EIS was published in the Federal Register (76FR14968) on Friday, March 18, 2011. This second Corrected Notice of Intent is being republished due to time lapse between the schedule in the first Corrected Notice of Intent and the new estimated Final EIS publication date.