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Marigold Mine Draft Environmental Impact Statement
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[Federal Register: February 11, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 29)]
[Notices]
[Page 7057]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr11fe00-104]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[NV-020-1990-01]
Marigold Mine Draft Environmental Impact Statement
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
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SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 102(2)(c) of the National Environmental
Policy Act of 1969, notice is given that the Winnemucca Field Office of
the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has prepared, by third party
contractor, a Draft Environmental Impact Statement on Glamis Marigold
Mining Company's Marigold Mine Expansion Project. This document is
available for public review for a 45 day period.
DATES AND ADDRESSES: Written comments on the Draft Environmental
Impact Statement must be postmarked by April 10, 2000.
Public meetings to receive oral and written comments have been
scheduled for the dates and places listed below. Meetings will begin at
7 p.m.
March 8, 2000, Battle Mountain Field Office, 50 Bastian Road,
Battle Mountain, Nevada.
March 9, 2000 at the Winnemucca Field Office, 5100 E. Winnemucca
Blvd., Winnemucca, Nevada.
A copy of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement can be obtained
from: Bureau of Land Management, Winnemucca Field Office, ATTN: Gerald
Moritz, Project Manager, 5100 E. Winnemucca Blvd., Winnemucca, Nevada
89445.
The Draft Environmental Impact Statement is available for
inspection at the following additional locations: Bureau of Land
Management, Nevada State Office, 1340 Financial Blvd., Reno, Nevada:
Humboldt County Library, Winnemucca, Nevada: Lander County Library,
Battle Mountain, Nevada: and the University of Nevada Library in Reno,
Nevada.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gerald Moritz, Project Manager at the
above Winnemucca Field Office address or telephone (702) 623-1500.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Draft Environmental Impact Statement
analyzes the potential environmental impacts that could result from the
continued mining and expansion of the Red Rock and Top Zone pits,
mining of two new pits (5-North and 8-North), new heap leach facility,
heap leach pad expansion, new waste rock dumps, waste rock dump
expansion, tailing impoundment and/or new tailing impoundment,
miscellaneous ancillary facilities and exploration disturbance. The
document analyzes three alternatives: the Proposed Action, the No
Action, and the 8-South Partial Pit Backfill.
Dated: February 2, 2000.
Terry A. Reed,
Field Manager.
[FR Doc. 00-3270 Filed 2-10-00; 8:45 am]
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