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Forest supervisor: Mine must meet air rules - or it's no go...

Tony Davis Arizona Daily Star | Posted: Saturday, October 15, 2011 12:00 am
The proposed Rosemont Mine will not be approved until the company can convince authorities it will meet federal air-quality standards, the Coronado National Forest supervisor said Friday.

In the Forest Service's first public discussion of the mine in more than three years, Supervisor Jim Upchurch said the service will require Rosemont Copper to take additional measures to ease the mine's impacts on the air. His statement at a news conference came a
couple of days after the service released its draft environmental impact statement, which said the mine could cause violations of air-quality rules.

"What we're disclosing here is that there are still concerns, and we will want them to go back and do additional modeling, additional
mitigation," Upchurch said of the new environmental report...

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