The Forest Service identified four key issues in the draft EIS: heritage properties and American Indian religious-use sites; changes in vegetation and wildlife habitat; effects on public health and safety; and visual effects. Community has three choices The draft EIS offers three options: no mining activity, the original PLS proposal, and a modified version. The amended version would reduce the area of disturbance, add reclamation steps to achieve a more natural-looking result in a shorter amount of time utilizing native vegetation, require any new power-lines to be buried instead of overhead, and increase measures to reduce dust. Among other things, the modified version would allow from 12 to 25 acres of disturbance at a time. The original proposal is for allowing 60 acres of disturbance at a time. Current PLS quarry activities disturb 20 acres at a time. The nearby PLS processing plant that crushes the rock for lime production is operating at maximum capacity and would not be expected to change that level with the proposed new quarry. Click Here For Complete Article Text
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