[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 36, Volume 2]
[Revised as of July 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 36CFR228.80]

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              TITLE 36--PARKS, FORESTS, AND PUBLIC PROPERTY
 
          CHAPTER II--FOREST SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 228_MINERALS--Table of Contents
 
               Subpart D_Miscellaneous Minerals Provisions
 
Sec.  228.80  Operations within Misty Fjords and Admiralty Island National Monuments, Alaska.


    (a) Mineral activities on valid mining claims in the Misty Fjords 
and Admiralty Island National Monuments must be conducted in accordance 
with regulations in subpart A of this part and with the provisions of 
this section.
    (b) Prior to approving a plan of operations, the authorized officer 
must consider:
    (1) The resources of ecological, cultural, geological, historical, 
prehistorical, and scientific interest likely

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to be affected by the proposed operations, including access; and
    (2) The potential adverse impacts on the identified resource values 
resulting from the proposed operations.
    (c) A plan of operations will be approved if, in the judgment of the 
authorized officer, proposed operations are compatible, to the maximum 
extent feasible, with the protection of the resource values identified 
pursuant to paragraph (b)(1) of this section.
    (1) The authorized officer will deem operations to be compatible if 
the plan of operations includes all feasible measures which are 
necessary to prevent or minimize potential adverse impacts on the 
resource values identified pursuant to paragraph (b)(1) of this section 
and if the operations are conducted in accordance with the plan.
    (2) In evaluating the feasibility of mitigating measures, the 
authorized officer shall, at a minimum, consider the following:
    (i) The effectiveness and practicality of measures utilizing the 
best available technology for preventing or minimizing adverse impacts 
on the resource values identified pursuant to paragraph (b)(1) of this 
section; and
    (ii) The long- and short-term costs to the operator of utilizing 
such measures and the effect of these costs on the long- and short-term 
economic viability of the operations.
    (3) The authorized officer shall not require implementation of 
mitigating measures which would prevent the evaluation or development of 
any valid claim for which operations are proposed.
    (d) In accordance with the procedures described in subpart A and 
paragraphs (c)(1) through (c)(3) of this section, the authorized officer 
may approve modifications of an existing plan of operations:
    (1) If, in the judgment of the authorized officer, environmental 
impacts unforeseen at the time of approval of the existing plan may 
result in the incompatibility of the operations with the protection of 
the resource values identified pursuant to paragraph (b)(1) of this 
section; or
    (2) Upon request by the operator to use alternative technology and 
equipment capable of achieving a level of environmental protection 
equivalent to that to be achieved under the existing plan of operations.

[51 FR 20827, June 9, 1986]