This Framework has been developed to help the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) implement a multi-media, multi-statute approach to dealing with the environmental concerns posed by hardrock mining. Although the Framework focuses on understanding and improving the use of existing EPA authorities it does so with a clear recognition of the role of other parties. Building effective working relationships with other mining stakeholders is a key element of EPA's efforts to improve the effectiveness of its own programs.
In developing the Framework, EPA invited input from a number of mining stakeholders, including other Federal agencies, States, Tribes, local
government, industry, and environmental groups. The final Framework presented here reflects many of the ideas provided by these groups on two earlier drafts.
For the purposes of the Framework, mining refers to proposed, active, and inactive and abandoned mines (IAMs) and mills from the metal, phosphate, uranium, and industrial mineral sectors; it does not include coal mining, crushed stone quarrying and mining, or aggregate mining.
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