Phosphate Leasing, Caribou National Forest, Caribou County, ID

摘要

The Department of Agriculture, Forest Service (FS), Caribou National Forest, and the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Idaho Falls District, will jointly prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for a proposal to issue two new phosphate leases within the Caribou National Forest. The Dairy Syncline Tract lies about 13 air miles east of Soda Springs, Idaho, and the Manning Creek Tract lies about 14 air miles southwest of Afton, Wyoming. If a lease(s) is issued pursuant to the mineral leasing regulations at 43 CFR part 3500, the lessee has a right to develop a mine and necessary ancillary facilities for the purposes of mining the phosphate ore reserves within the lease boundaries. However, before actual mining could occur, the lessee would be required to obtain an approved mining and reclamation plan, which would require a NEPA document addressing the site specific proposed mine development.