Source: Anna M. Phillips, LA TIMES, 6/12/19


The U.S. Forest Service on Wednesday announced plans to narrow the scope of a major environmental law, allowing the agency to fast-track activity throughout the national forest system without undergoing environmental review. The proposed changes could potentially make it easier for logging, road building and other construction projects to gain approval than under current rules — and much more quickly. One of the revisions, for example, would eliminate the need to conduct an environmental study before allowing mining on land parcels up to one square mile in size.

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