DEQ Issues Final Environmental Impact Statement; DNRC Issues Preliminary Determinations on Water Permit and Water Right Applications

DEQ Issues Final Environmental Impact Statement on Proposed Spring Creek Mine Expansion Project

Extension allows operations to continue at the Spring Creek coal mine in southeastern Montana

Today, the Montana Department of Environmental Quality reached a short-term agreement with the Navajo Transitional Energy Company (NTEC) that ensures compliance with the State’s mining and environmental laws, and allows coal production to resume at the Spring Creek Mine in Big Horn County, Montana.