The Bureau of Land Management was expected to issue a decision this fall on whether to allow Alton Coal Development LLC to expand its strip mine in Kane County. But it's now decided to issue a Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement on the project. That won't come out until early next year, and it will be followed by another six-week period for public comment. Keith Rigtrup, who has supervised the process for the BLM since it was first proposed in 2006, says they got a lot of feedback on the draft EIS.
