Changes in mining rock Lee-Collier plans to divert the federal environmental review

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– Enemies of a group of rock mines near the planned line Collier, Lee took the heart of the county last year when federal permitters announced plans for a major overhaul of the environment.

So far, however, the four proposed mines led to the review have escaped the so-called regional Environmental Impact Statement, or EIS.

A second EIS scheduled for the two mines on the edge of Golden Gate Estates in Collier County countryside has yet to take off amid questions about whether federal mining permits are required Clean Water Act.

U.S. Corps of Engineers last year found that six mines as a whole would have sufficient effect on wetlands and endangered species like the Florida panther and the stork, to justify a closer look in an EIS.

Since then, only one of the mines along the county line is still carried out through the body process permits, the Corps project manager Lauren Diaz said last week.

With only a mine-search permissions, eliminating the need for broader EIS review,

The body found that the mine Lost Grove, west side of Immokalee in Collier County line, you do not need a permit to Clean Water Act because it does not affect wetlands protected by law.

The so-called Six L's mine withdrew its application, and doing corkscrews mine suspended its application for a year, Diaz said.

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"I have played the system and play the system, beat the EIA," said Florida Wildlife Federation field representative Nancy Payton.

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Florida Wildlife Federation field representative Nancy Payton owners accused of manipulating their projects and timelines.

"I have played the system and play the system, beat the EIA," he said.

That left me only Troyer Bros., which is still subject to individual environmental review, but will result in a cumulative impact analysis would be "less" of what is required of a regional EIA said Diaz.

Lawyers for the lost mine Grove Bros. Troyer said there was no coordinated attempt by the owners of land to the side of the EIS.

"We do not discuss that (our request for federal permission to others and not really his talk to us," said attorney David Troyer Bros. Budd Friday.

In its conclusions in December, the body said the four mines along Corkscrew Road corridor in south Lee County and the county line to a total 13 700 hectares, including 420 acres of wetlands.

That is, 40 percent of the impact on wetlands has authorized body in the basin of the corkscrew between 2005 and 2009, according to figures from the body.

The body raised questions about the effects of the mines in nearby preserves, such as Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary and Pepper Ranch in Immokalee, underground water supply and the need for more roads.

The mines in North Belle Meade in Collier County would cover over 2,200 hectares, including 624 acres of wetlands, bodies found last year.

That's almost half of the wetlands under Corps permits in the Big Cypress Basin between 2005 and 2009.

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