USDA Forest Service

This draft record of decision (ROD) documents the Forest Service’s decision to authorize uses of NFS land by issuing special use authorizations for pipeline and powerline corridors, road use permits, and a project-specific Forest Plan Amendment associated with the Resolution Copper Project.

Federal Register Notice of Availability

EIS No. 20250085, Final, USFS, AZ, Resolution Copper Project & Land Exchange, Review Period Ends: 07/21/2025

The Executive Summary provides an overview of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the proposed Resolution Copper Project and Land Exchange.

The Draft EIS describes the process undertaken by the USDA Forest Service, to evaluate the issues related to and predicted effects of the submittal by Resolution Copper's mining GPO, and legislatively-mandated land exchange.

Neil Bosworth, the Forest Supervisor for the Tonto National Forest, outlines his agency’s responsibilities and encourages the public to review the Draft EIS and provide substantive comments with supporting reasons in his Dear Reader letter.

Federal Register Notice of Availability

EIS No. 20190189, Draft, USFS, AZ, Resolution Copper Project and Land Exchange, Comment Period Ends: 11/07/2019

Amend the Agreement to Initiate Land Exchange dated December 6, 2017 in the following manner.

The subject property is located just southeast of the town of Superior, in Pinal County, Arizona. It lies within the boundaries of the Globe Ranger District, Tonto National Forest. The property is an irregularly shaped group of seven patented lode mining claims and portions of two others. It contains 139.662 acres.

The subject properties are located 3 to 6 miles south of Elgin in Santa Cruz County, Arizona within the 8,000-acre Appleton-Whittell Research Ranch. The property consists of three non-contiguous parcels of mostly rolling grassland in the Canelo Hills totaling 956.54 acres. Each parcel is located along one of three streambeds that drain in a northeasterly direction into the Babocomari River which flows eastward to join the San Pedro River.