The library has the "Draft Supplemental Environmental Imact Statement" available for public viewing. It includes proposed modifications that would increase the production of taconite pellets from 3.8 million metric tons per year of low flux taconite pellets to 6.5 million metric tons per year of high flux pellets or 7.0 million metric tons per year of low flux taconite pellets. It has also been proposed to decrease the length of the mine plan time period from 20 years to 15.
The draft statement describes how the project would affect surface water quantity and quality, wild rice, solid wastes, project-specific and cumulative air quality, greenhouse gases and climate change, and socioeconomics.
The public review period will be until 6/8/2011. The draft policy is held at the front desk and must be used in the library.
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