Rise Grass Valley’s public hearing on the Final Environmental Impact Report for its proposed project to reopen the Idaho Maryland Mine is set to start 9 a.m. Wednesday, May 10, at the Board of Supervisors chambers of the Eric Rood Administrative Center, 950 Maidu Ave., in Nevada City.
According to county officials, the hearing will be continued to Thursday, May 11, if necessary.
“The Nevada County Planning Commission will hold a public hearing to consider project recommendations to the Board of Supervisors for the proposed Idaho-Maryland Mine – Rise Grass Valley project: Members of the public who want to participate, including but not limited to, providing oral public comments in the meeting, should plan on attending the meeting on May 10, 2023 because there is no guarantee that it will be necessary to continue the meeting to May 11, 2023,” a public notice on the meeting states.
“The proposed project would reinitiate underground mining and gold mineralization processing for the Idaho- Maryland Mine over an eighty- (80)-year permit period with gold mineralization processing and underground exploration and mining proposed to operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week during full operations. Following completion of mining and processing activities, the project sites would be reclaimed to open space and land suitable for future development of industrial uses. For the full Project Description, please see the Draft Environmental Impact Report Chapter 3.0.”
Click here for Nevada County’s information page on the project proposal.
The Final EIR document to be discussed at the hearing can be reviewed by clicking here.
Read previous news coverage of the project by The Union and YubaNet.