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Northern Dynasty Minerals: Pebble Partnership Urges New Us Environmental Protection Agency Administrator to Support Due Process, Rule of Law at Southwest Alaska’s Pebble Project
VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / April 6, 2021 / Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. (TSX:NDM) (NYSE American:NAK) ("Northern Dynasty" or the "Company") reports that its
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[{"type":"text","content":" VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / April 6, 2021 / 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 (the \"Pebble Partnership\") has written to the recently confirmed Administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency (\"EPA\") Michael Regan, providing a brief status update on Alaska's Pebble Project and urging the new Administrator to support a full and fair process for the project. \"As someone who has spoken directly about the criticality of fair process and the need for data and facts to show the path for important regulatory decisions, we hope you will advocate for this comprehensive NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act) review process as the correct way to sort through complex technical matters,\" writes Pebble Partnership CEO John Shively. The Pebble Partnership's letter to Administrator Regan provides an overview of the federal permitting process for Pebble, which began in December 2017 with submission of a Project Description and application for a key federal permit under the Clean Water Act. It summarizes the broad federal and state regulatory agency and public participation in the Environmental Impact Statement (\"EIS\") and permitting process for Pebble - including by the EPA and multiple tribal organizations - over an intensive 2½-year review. In July 2020, the lead federal agency US Army Corps of Engineers (\"USACE\") published a Final EIS, which Northern Dynasty believes represents the most relevant, objective and science-based assessment of the Pebble Project. The Final EIS found the proposed copper-gold-molybdenum-silver-rhenium mine would not affect regional water quality, fish populations or the commercial, subsistence and sport fisheries that depend on them, and would make significant socioeconomic contributions to the Bristol Bay region and the State of Alaska. \"Thus, the definitive record for the Pebble Project shows it can be developed responsibly, without harm to the Bristol Bay fishery, and for the social and economic benefit of communities closest to the proposed operation, the vast majority of whose citizens are Alaska Natives,\" Shively writes. Notwithstanding the positive findings of its Final EIS, the USACE issued a negative Record of Decision (\"ROD\") for the Pebble ...