Comment EI-19925
Received or sent (printed as 1/11/2013)
I am concerned with the way in which the Surface Transportation Board has handled the scoping process under NEPA. The TRRC should not be able to submit an alternative plan after the public hearings concluded. This undermines landowners who have not been able to speak out against a new route because it was not made available to them during the appropriate time. This is just unfair and wrong. The folks in Colstrip deserve an opportunity to voice their concerns. The EIS must include analysis on the climate change impacs of mining, transporting and burning coal from the Otter Creek area. Otter Creek is potentially the largest new mine in the lower 48 and the STB is obligated to look at all impacts this project and the TRR would have on local communities, wildlife, and climate change. I also believe that the investigation proposed by Murkowski and Wyden into the fair market value" of coal needs to weigh in on the discussion and analysis of the Otter Creek mine."
Submitted by: Kendall Mackey
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