The Environmental Protection Agency, at the
request of the Coeur d’Alene Basin Natural
Resource Trustees, known as the Restoration
Partnership (Partnership), published the Notice
of Availability (NOA) of the final Restoration
Plan and Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) in
the Federal Register.
The NOA was published on February 23, 2018 and
is
available online.
Public comment was solicited during a scoping
period in 2013 and on the draft EIS in
2016–2017. The Notice of Availability makes the
final document available to the public and
begins the 30-day waiting period required before
the Record of Decision may be signed.
The Partnership is a collaborative effort
comprising the Coeur d’Alene Basin Natural
Resource Trustees which are the U.S. Department
of the Interior, represented by the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service and Bureau of Land
Management; the Coeur d’Alene Tribe; the U.S.
Department of Agriculture, represented by the
U.S. Forest Service; and the State of Idaho,
represented by the Idaho Department of Fish and
Game and Idaho Department of Environmental
Quality.
The Partnership’s primary mission is to recover
the natural resources that were injured by
releases of mine waste contamination, and
compensate for lost human use services of those
resources by developing and implementing
projects under the framework found in the
restoration plan for the Coeur d’Alene Basin.
Visit the Restoration Partnership website at
www.restorationpartnership.org to access the
EIS and to learn more about this effort or the
Restoration Partnership. |