Renate KloPPinger-ToddPO Box 268 Sonoita AZ 8563

11 Camino del Corral, Elgin AZ 85611Tel 520 455 0380

Reviewing OfficerUSFS Southwest Region333 Broadway SEAlbuquerque, NM 87142

Sonoita, February 4, 2014

Rosemont Copper Project FEIS Objection

I hereby submit a formal objection to the proposed Rosemont copper project in the coronado

National Forest, Nfogafes nanger District. The responsible official is Jim Upchurch' This

obiection concerns ilew information contained in the FEIS which became available after the -delignated comment opportunities for this project'

lssue: The proposed Rosemont Copper project FEIS contains substantial new and important

information devetoped after publication of tn6 DEIS and before publication of the FEIS.

Objection: Appendix G: Summary of Response to Comments on the DEIS of the FEIS for the

Rosemont copper pioi"ct is replete with statements which refer objectors to new information or,,expanded analyses,'wnicn are included in the FEts. To name a few these include the analysis

of socioeconomic impa&s in Chapter 3; the analysis of traffic and safety impacts in Chapters 1

and 3; the anatysis of biological resources impaits in Chapter 3; the analysis of traffic and public

rri"t, impacts in the Hazarlous Materials, Public Health and Safety, and Transportation

sections in Chapter 3; and the analysis of surface water impacts in Chapter 3'

The cNF further states that: "Federal regulations regarding supplementin_g an.Els are contained

at 40 cFR 1s02.9: i"jng"ncies: shall pl"p"r" suppiements to either drafl or final environmental

impact statements if: (i) The agency makes substantial changes in the proposed action that are

relevant to environmental conierns; or (ii) There are significant new circumstances or

information relevant to environmental concerns and beiring on the proposed action or its

impacts.'

Despite reasonable and appropriate reqqests to igs-ye q gubstantially reyised DEls or a

,rprir"r"ntat DE;S in orJli:to'permit m? buuic and pub;lic -gencies the opportunity to revlew

and comment on , prof"r evaluation of ait of the proposgd proiect's reasonably foreseeable .

significant adverse i*G"t", the cNF chose to issue the FEls, thus greatly limiting public review

of this new and important information through the use of a narrow, difficult, and highly technical

formal obiection Process.

Remedy: The usFS should abandon this version of a FEls and prepare and circulate for public

review ind comment a Revised DEIS.

Sincerely , / /- .l- ,l Z

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