Environmental Assessment Completed

2015 Goat Mountain Hardrock Prospecting Permit Applications

Gifford Pinchot National Forest Skamania, Washington Cowlitz Ranger District

Provide Forest Service consent, including conditions and notices, to the BLM to issue two hardrock mineral prospecting permit applications on National Forest System lands.

Location

Located on & adjacent to south slope of Goat Mt. Lands are next to and extend NE from the boundary of Mt St Helens National Volcanic Monument.

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
02/15/2012
2
Comment Period
02/18/2016
3
Objection Period Start
08/24/2017
4
Decision
01/2018 (Estimated)
5
Implementation
01/2018 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Special AuthorityNepa Document Prepared By Another Federal Agency
Notice and Comment Regulation218 (2013) Non-HFRA
Project ActivityMinerals Or Geology Plans Of Operations
Goat Mountain Hardrock Mineral Prospecting PermitsDecision Signed Date: 01/29/2018
ForestsGifford Pinchot National Forest
DistrictsCowlitz Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionThe permit area is within portions of sections 7, 8, 9, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20 of Township 10 N, Range 6 East, Willamette Meridian, Skamania County, WA
Minerals and geology