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Mono County supervisors direct staff to press for full environmental review of proposed exploratory core‑boring project
Summary
Assistant county counsel told supervisors an exploratory core‑boring proposal on Forest Service land mirrors a 2021 plan that was legally challenged; supervisors directed staff to draft a letter requesting the highest level of NEPA environmental review and to return with that letter for board approval.
Assistant County Counsel Emily Fox briefed the Mono County Board of Supervisors on a forthcoming exploratory core‑boring proposal on Inyo National Forest land and recommended the board treat the project as it is circulated under NEPA.
Fox said preliminary materials indicate the new proposal mirrors a 2021 plan that would place three cores on each of 14 drill pads and asserts less than one acre of surface disturbance. She told the board the county’s Surface Mining and Reclamation Act (SMARA) permitting authority is triggered for disturbances greater than one…
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