Legal Notice Of Proposed Action
Denison Mines (USA) Corporation
La Sal Mines Complex
Plan of Operations Amendment
USDA Forest Service
Manti-La Sal National Forest
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Forest Service (FS)
are conducting an Environmental Assessment (EA) of proposed activities
associated with uranium mining near La Sal, Utah. Denison Mines (USA)
Corporation (the Proponent) has submitted a Plan of Operations
Amendment (POA) amendment for their existing operations. This
amendment would provide for additional disturbance of BLM and Forest
System land, and combine several existing Plans of Operations into one
document.
The Manti-La Sal National Forest, Moab/Monticello Ranger District is
proposing to allow the Proponent to conduct operations on Forest
Service lands as proposed in the POA. In addition to combining all
existing operations and facilities into one Plan of Operations, this
proposal includes installing up to 14 vents with associated access
roads (< =14 acres of disturbance) and disturbing up to 34 acres in
association with exploratory drilling and access roads for the
proposed 20 years of operations. The operations will be located on
the south side of Pine Ridge approximately 3 miles east of La Sal.
Although the BLM and FS are jointly conducting the EA (BLM is the
lead agency), each agency will make a Decision with respect to its
lands only. If you already commented on this project during the
initial scoping period ending January 31, 2011, please do so again if
you wish to have appeal eligibility on the Forest Service's Decision.
For further details of the operations on Forest and/or BLM, please go
to the following website:
http://www.fs.fed.us/r4/mantilasal/projects/
The public is invited to comment on our proposed action. This
decision is subject to appeal pursuant to Forest Service regulations
36 CFR 215 and 251. those who submit timely comments during this
comment period will be accepted as potential appellants. can be
either oral or written in response to this project. Each individual or
representative from each organization, submitting comments must either
sign the comments or otherwise verify identity in order to attain
appeal eligibility. Comments received, including names and addresses
of those who comment, will be considered part of the public record for
this project and will be available for public inspection. Comments
should include the information required pursuant to 36 CFR
215.6(a)(3), as published in the Federal Register on June 4, 2003.
The Responsible Official is Pamela Brown, Forest Supervisor. Please
send written comments to: Pamela Brown, Responsible Official/ Forest
Supervisor, Manti-La Sal National Forest, 599 West Price River Drive,
UT 84501; phone: (435) 636-3561, fax: (435) 637-4940; e-mail:
comments-intermtn-manti-lasal-moab-monticello@fs.fed.us . E-mailed
comments must be submitted in MS Word (*.doc) or rich text format
(*.rtf).6 Comments may also be delivered to the above address during
regular business hours of 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m, Monday-Friday,
excluding federal holidays. The opportunity to comment ends 30 days
following the date of publication of this legal notice in the
Advocate.
If you have any questions or would like a copy of the Proposed Action
and the Purpose and Need sent to you, please contact Joel Nowak, Team
Leader, Monticello Ranger District, P.O. Box 820, 432 East Center St.,
Monticello, UT 84535; e-mail: joelnowak@fs.fed.us
Published in the Sun Advocate February 22, 2011.
These legal notices, along with those from other fine Utah newspapers, can be viewed at www.utahlegals.com.
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