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The road to approval or denial for a mining operation is a long, deliberate process, said Heidi Schewel, spokeswoman for the Coronado National Forest.

• Step 1: A mining company, like Augusta Resource Corp. and its subsidiary, Rosemont Copper Company, submits a plan of operation. Augusta submitted its plan in July.

• Step 2: The U.S. Forest Service reviews the plan and may request more information from the mining company. The review of the Rosemont plan was completed in October.

• Step 3: The Forest Service issues a notice of intent to prepare an environmental impact statement. The Forest Service gave this notice on Feb. 8.

• Step 4: The Forest Service begins a public scoping process to gather comments from the community. This process runs through July 14.

• Step 5: The Forest Service releases a draft environmental impact statement, disclosing potential environmental and social impacts. The draft includes public comments and lists proposed modifications to the mining plan to mitigate concerns. The draft is scheduled for release no sooner than March 2009. A 45-day comment period follows the draft impact statement.

• Step 6: The Forest Service will issue a final environmental impact statement. This document is tentatively scheduled for release in November 2009.

• Step 7: Soon after the release of the final environmental impact statement, the Forest Service will file and publish in the Federal Register a record of decision.