By Tony Davis | Arizona Daily Star
In a closed-door session Tuesday, the Pima County Board of Supervisors is slated to discuss whether to lodge a formal objection to the Forest Service’s tentative approval of the Rosemont Mine and to its final environmental impact statement.
Such an objection would legally force the Forest Service to respond to the county’s detailed concerns about the copper mine planned for the Santa Rita Mountains southeast of Tucson.
Pima County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry said the final environmental impact statement is a clear improvement from earlier drafts but still has a ways to go in disclosing all the mine’s impacts.
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