USDA Forest Service

In response to Resolution Copper Mining’s (RCM’s) submittal of a plan of operations for pre-feasibility activities, the Forest Service prepared this EA in compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). This EA discloses the direct, indirect and cumulative environmental impacts that would result from the proposed action and alternatives.

FSM 2000 – National Forest Resource Management

Chapter 2080 – Noxious Weed Management

This handbook provides guidance for conducting planning, traffic management, investment sharing (cost share), highway safety, traffic studies, road maintenance, and other road system operations and maintenance activities.

Resolution Copper Mining, LLC of 102 Magma Heights, Superior, AZ 85273 (hereinafter called the Holder) is hereby authorized to use or occupy National Forest System lands, to use subject to the conditions set out below, on the Tonto National Forest of the National Forest System.

Mining claims, Mineral leases, permits, licenses, mineral reservations and rights outstanding, reclamation, mineral materials, Forest Service authorized prospecting and mineral collecting, geologic resources, certification

FSM 2600 – Wildlife, Fish, and Sensitive Plant Habitat Management

Chapter 2670 – Threatened, Endangered and Sensitive Plants and Animals

The abundance of tamarisk (Tamarix ramosissima and related species) along the San Pedro and Gila River flood plains varies with differences in stream flow regimes.

Predicting the potential behavior and effects of wildland fire is an essential task in fire management. Mathematical surface fire behavior and fire effects models and prediction systems are driven in part by fuelbed inputs such as load, bulk density, fuel particle size, heat content, and moisture of extinction.

This experience demonstrated that reclamation requirements and bonds for mining operations on federal lands in the Western United States were inadequate in some cases.

Establishes new authority sections that include a cross-reference to FSM 5430.1 and lists additional laws, executive orders, and departmental regulations applicable to land exchanges.