Kentucky Coal Public Hearing

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PUBLIC HEARING: U.S. Army Corp of Engineers to propose permanent roadblock

On Tuesday, October 13, at 7 p.m. at the East Kentucky Expo Center in downtown Pikeville, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Louisville District will be holding a public hearing on its proposed elimination of the NWP 21 Permit. On July 15, the Corps published its proposed suspension in the Federal Register and indicated that its desire was to suspend and prohibit the use of NWP 21 in the Appalachian coalfields. This suspension and prohibition of NWP 21 would require ALL surface coal mining activities in Appalachia be processed as individual permits.

This hearing is free and open to the PUBLIC.

You are invited to attend and provide a voice to this proposed change which would put a regulatory roadblock in place on a permitting system that has been in place since 1982.

If this change is allowed to occur, it can only lead to miners losing their jobs in an area that can least afford that type of action.