Chris Garrett

Comments received on the DEIS, including those from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, questioned the appropriateness of stopping the analysis at these locations and not assessing impacts further downstream, particularly to community water supplies. In response, Section 3.7.2 of the FEIS has been modified to discuss further downstream impacts.

The purpose of this process memorandum is to signpost the process steps that have taken place since publication of the DEIS in order to assess and respond to comments about alternative mining techniques, document the conclusions reached, and the rationale for these conclusions.

The purpose of this process memorandum is to provide clarification of several perceived discrepancies in water balance that appear in the Draft EIS and supporting documents, and to provide confirmation that these discrepancies are not substantive to the disclosure of impacts in the EIS.

The purpose of this process memorandum is to summarize an investigation into the status of comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) alleged to have been submitted by Professor Stephen Boyd in October 2019.

Email communication with supplemental list of mitigation suggestions from public comments in draft EIS.

Email communication with consolidated list of potential mitigation suggestions received in public comments.

The purpose of this memorandum is to provide a summary of the process used for selecting the third-party contractor (SWCA Environmental Consultants [SWCA]), the contractual arrangements pertaining to SWCA, Resolution Copper Mining, LLC (Resolution Copper), and the Tonto National Forest, and details of how potential conflict of interest has been identified and managed.

One of the issues identified to be analyzed in the environmental impact statement (EIS) is the presence of unpatented mining claims that might overlap with the proposed project footprint. The purpose of this memorandum is to document the receipt of additional unpatented claim information files for the project record.

The purpose of this process memo is to provide the detailed data for additional power information received and summarize the information.

The purpose of this process memorandum is to document the receipt of native files containing water quality modeling data that don’t otherwise appear in published reports. The native files described below will be incorporated into the project record in conjunction with this process memo.