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Northern Dynasty Minerals: Final EIS and Record of Decision Will Determine Federal Action at Alaska’s Pebble Project
VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / August 10, 2020 / Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. (TSX:NDM)(NYSE American:NAK) ("Northern Dynasty" or the "Company") reports that it
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[{"type":"text","content":" VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / August 10, 2020 / Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. (TSX:NDM)(NYSE American:NAK) (\"Northern Dynasty\" or the \"Company\") reports that its 100%-owned US-based subsidiary Pebble Limited Partnership (\"Pebble Partnership\") issued a public statement in response to comments made by US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. The statement reads: \"Pebble Partnership CEO Tom Collier said today the Final Environmental Impact Statement (\"EIS\") for the Pebble Project released by the US Army Corps of Engineers (\"USACE\") last month, and the federal Record of Decision (\"ROD\") expected within weeks, will serve as the basis for final federal decision-making at the proposed copper-gold-molybdenum project. \"Collier was responding to a statement issued Sunday by Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden, in which the former Vice President suggests he would rely on a study completed by the Obama-era Environmental Protection Agency (\"EPA\") in 2014 to deny federal permits to Pebble. Collier stressed the Final EIS released by the USACE on July 24, 2020 will ‘without any doubt whatsoever' serve as the administrative record for all federal regulatory and permitting decisions at Pebble. \"'It's election season, and people are going to posture and say things, I totally understand that,' Collier said. ‘But when it comes down to brass tacks, to the law, there can be no federal action at Pebble that is inconsistent with the Final EIS, period.' \"Collier pointed out that prior efforts by the Obama administration to impose regulatory decisions at Pebble in the absence of an EIS or other legally defensible administrative record were stopped by the courts. He said any similar action by a future Democratic administration would be promptly overturned - particularly given the favorable findings of the Pebble EIS. \"'Look, any suggestion that the Obama-era Bristol Bay Watershed Assessment (\"BBWA\") is a more defensible administrative record for regulatory decision-making at Pebble than the Final EIS is laughable,' he said. \"'Not only does the BBWA not even assess our project, it doesn't consider project-specific mitigation, it's based almost entirely on secondary research, and it isn't an impact assessment. As a basis for regulatory decision-making, the BBWA is woefully inadequate and demonstrably inferior to the Final ...