EPA releases final Bristol Bay assessment; Final report is similar to draft that was based on hypothetical mine

摘要

THE U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its final assessment of the impact of large-scale mining in Alaska's Bristol Bay region on Jan. 15 and the findings are similar to the agency's draft report that found large-scale mining could adversely affect the world's largest sockeye salmon fishery. Like the draft report before it, the final assessment is not an in-depth assessment of a specific mine, but a study of the possible impacts of what the EPA called reasonably foreseeable mining activities in the region.