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The subject property is located 2 to 3 miles north of Spur Cross Ranch Conservation Area, and about 6 miles north of the Town of Cave Creek, Maricopa County, Arizona. The site is within the Cave Creek Ranger District of the Tonto National Forest. The property is irregularly shaped and contains 149.30 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.

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.

Maps of Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act of 2011 including Federal Parcel, Oak Flat, Apache Leap, Cave Creek, East Clear Creek, Tangle Creek, Turkey Creek, Lower San Pedro River, Dripping Springs, Appleton Ranch, Superior Airport, and Fairview Cemetery.

On February 13, 2015, Resolution Copper submitted a formal request to the Forest Service indicating their desire to convey the specified non-federal land to the United States. Details of the land exchange are contained in this Land Exchange Proposal dated August 2015, as well as the draft Agreement to Initiate that will be executed between Resolution Copper and the Forest Service.

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

Publication of the NOI in the Federal Register on March 18, 2016 represents the official start of the process to prepare an EIS, as required under the National Environmental Policy Act, for approval of a plan of operations for the Resolution Copper Project and associated land exchange.

Public open house meetings will be held as follows. Each meeting will take place from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.; a presentation will take place at 5:30, followed by a brief question and answer period.

These questions were asked and answered during the public meetings held in Queen Valley, Superior, Globe, Gilbert, and San Tan, Arizona from March - June 2016. 180 total questions and answers are recorded here in 5 categories: NEPA process, impact analysis, land exchange, mine proprosal, and general.

On March 18, 2016, the Notice of Intent was published in the Federal Register, initiating the scoping process for the Resolution Copper Project and Land Exchange EIS.  The Tonto National Forest Supervisor, Neil Bosworth, issued this scoping letter, inviting public participation in the scoping process.