ANCHORAGE - The BLM-Alaska Resource Advisory Council (RAC) will meet next week at the Fairbanks Westmark Hotel in the Yukon Room. The hotel is located at 813 Noble Street in Fairbanks, Alaska 99701. The meeting starts at 8:30 a.m. on both April 23 & 24. The council will accept comments from the public on Wednesday, April 23 from 3:15-4:15 p.m.
The agenda includes discussion regarding new policies for placer mining. The council formed a fact-finding subcommittee to assist the BLM with communicating and educating the stakeholders prior to implementing the new policies. The subcommittee will report on their preliminary work to the full RAC.
Other items of interest on the agenda include updates on land use planning, development in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, upcoming Red Devil Mine cleanup actions and other topics of interest to the RAC. A complete agenda is available on the RAC web page (see the URL below).
The meeting is open to the public. Depending on the number of people wishing to comment, time for individual oral comments may be limited. Please be prepared to submit written comments if necessary.
To learn more about the BLM-Alaska RAC, please visit http://blm.gov/ak/rac.
Source: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management
