Chris Garrett

The purpose of this memorandum is to detail the steps taken between the DEIS and final EIS (FEIS) to further revaluate potential mitigations for the project, leading to the mitigation and monitoring measures included in the revised appendix J of the FEIS.

The purpose of this process memorandum is to detail the process used to evaluate these comments, the decisions made by the Tonto National Forest with respect to addressing the comments, and the rationale for those decisions.

Comments received on the DEIS, including those from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, questioned the appropriateness of stopping the analysis at these locations and not assessing impacts further downstream, particularly to community water supplies. In response, Section 3.7.2 of the FEIS has been modified to discuss further downstream impacts.

Additional reclamation plans were received from Resolution Copper after the DEIS. The purpose of this process memorandum (memo) is to summarize the documents received and the process used to evaluate those documents for sufficiency.