Public Comment Matrix

Daneros Mine Project Appendix M Environmental Assessment Public Comment Matrix April 2009 # Commenter Comment Response Section of EA Revised Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA) April 12, 2009 Comment Letter 1. SUWA BLM must conduct an Environmental Impact Analysis or deny this proposal. If BLM has determined that significant impacts would not result from No change required BLM does not deny the proposal then the agency must issue a Supplemental EA implementation of UEC’s Plan of Operations. BLM has prepared a FONSI. There or EIS. is no requirement to prepare a Supplemental EA. The EA is not final until the DR/FONSI is signed by the BLM authorized officer. The DR will not be signed until after public comments are considered and any changes, as a result of public comment, are made to the document. 2. SUWA “the EA fails to confirm that the proposed access routes (B258, D0029, D5319) Routes D0029 and B258 would provide the only access to the Daneros Mine. Proposed Action and Appendix A and the proposed “re-route” of “a 0.75 mile segment of Country Road D5319 are These routes are designated in the Monticello Field Office Travel Plan. UEC all designated routes in the newly issued Monticello RMP/Travel Plan.” would not be authorized to use any other route. For public safety purposes, access on route D0029 would be limited to authorized personnel during the 7-year operation. Public access would be restored after mine ...