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- AJL ~ )Pcr;ttions_ <br />~o ILmd tools and heavy cyuiptnent would be used to prospect and extract minerals from the surface within <br />chum imundarics at proposed dig site locations. Ileavy cyuipment would be limited to up to 6Q eight- <br />... hour clays per season (:\pril-Novcrnbcry. <br />... -; I he workforce would compose of two lu five people. <br />n ('xntping would be ti.?r f+I) days per operation per year and would occur un ur near the excavation sites. <br />l._ Nuntun waste would be disposed ul using Leave No 'trace gutdchnes, including but nat linuted to the <br />~._ disl+u~al rf fcr.< ir, c++trred holes six tr ci±fit inches deep and more than 2nO }'cet Iront streams, trails. <br />:,_ roads and campsites. <br />.- ,~ lip to 2t) gallons of wafer per day would be brought to National Forest System (NFS) land to process <br />-- extracted minerals. <br />"' + 'frees would be removed whin un;n•oidable for mining operations. <br />Vehicle trat'tic would he limited to existing system and non-system roads. Motorized travel off existing <br />,.. roads would be rnstrtcted to a track hoc excavator nr b,tekhue to access dig sites. <br />-- :\II garbage would be removed from NPS land :utd disposed of according to state and local regulations. <br />" Purpose: <br />.._ the pur)mse of these prvpuscd actions would allow the oprrator to exercise his rights to explore for and mine <br />... valuable locatable minerals as stated under the 18?'_ mininc law. 'the General lvtinine l.aw :\ct of 15%2 <br />~- ;tllows entry', exploration ;mJ minins; un public domain lands as smatter ufsell=initiation. P;usugc of the <br />' ` Gcncntl 'llinina I-aw of l4%?, also known as the :\ct of 41av I r). 1572, declared the+t "all valuable mineral <br />,. +Icposits in lands belonging t,t the i nileJ States ... to he I'rce and open to exploration and purchase, and the <br />lands in which they arc tiuuut to he uprn to occupation and purchase. h.• cituens of the l!nited States ..." <br />•.. fhi~, :\ct opened public dunt.tin I:outs u~t ned by the l niied States u, expluraUun and occupation li?r the <br />.. ~ • punwsc ufdt;ro, crate and deticluptng t aluable nnnera( deposits Lntnd in Them. <br />-.. The lanc!s conlainnte "t :tluable deposits" were also made atailahlc for purchase Ipatcnting) upon <br />-- cxpendihtre ol'SSt)0 worth of work toward the ctecelupmcnt of the deposit. <br />... Furest Service authority with record to lorttahlc minerals on reserved public domain land is generally ni?n- <br />-- discretionary. 'I his means the Purest Service cannot prohibit the discovery or development of minerals, but <br />- it can regulate surlacc disturbance caused by these mining operations (Pamela Picch, Senior Counsel, Utlice <br />. of the General ('ounul, l,:S f)eparllnent of :\griculture, :\ugu;t 2t)ir2). <br />... ^Iced: <br />-~ the need is to protect the NFS land and surlacc resources as rcyuircd by Tttlc 3(i, Code of Federal <br />-" Regulations ICFRJ Part 228, Subpart :\ Locatable \(incralc. 'l he proposed plan of operations would he <br />... processed as a lu~atable or ludo minerd resource under the 18'2 mining law, according to established Furest <br />... Scn•ice polio}, uuliunt: the standard Plan ofOperatiuns lurntat. <br />- _ 'the 189? Organic :\ct authorir.ed the protection of the National Purest, agautst dcstrurtiun, and authurizal <br />... the Secretary of :\gtirulutre to make rules and reeulations rttulating the occupancy and use of the National <br />- Forests. fhe :\ct provides Ihau persons entering the NaUunal Forests fur the purposes ol'prospecting, <br />-- locating and dcvelopine mineral resources under the l ~.5. minims Iaws, as amended, must comply with the <br />ntles and regulations of the Sccrctary of Agriculture covering the. National Furesu. <br />I•he 1 Hii \tultiplc-C'sc \4inine Act anunded the 1 S72 Act and cave the Forest tier ire authority to protect <br />-.- surlacc rcsourccs un claims (orated on NFti lands. <br />... r <br />Paec 4 of d9 <br />