Environmental Assessment Completed

Frazier Creek Mining Exploration Project

Plumas National Forest Plumas, California Beckwourth Ranger District

Exploration for minerals using hand tools to excavate material. Material processed through a highbanker. Water pumped from Frazier Creek and returned to settling pit. Plan will authorize replacement of gate and use of gate and spur road.

Location

Frazier Creek just south of Gold Lake Highway and south of the town of Graeagle.

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
06/10/2014
2
Comment Period
10/07/2015
3
Objection Period Start
12/09/2015
4
Decision
03/2016 (Estimated)
5
Implementation
05/2016 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Special AuthorityNot Applicable / Other
Notice and Comment Regulation218 (2013) Non-HFRA
Project ActivityMinerals Or Geology Plans Of Operations
Frazier Creek Mining Exploration ProjectDecision Signed Date: 03/04/2016
ForestsPlumas National Forest
DistrictsBeckwourth Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionT22N, R12E, Section 27
Minerals and geology