BCC Rock Mining Summit Wednesday

For immediate release: March 17, 2008
For more information: Carrie Rechenmacher, 561-233-5209

Reporters and photographers are invited to attend a Rock Mining Summit hosted by the Palm Beach County Board of County Commissioners on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 from 9 a.m. to noon at the Clayton Hutcheson Agricultural Center, 559 N. Military Trail, West Palm Beach.

The purpose is to bring stakeholders and interested parties together to determine an appropriate process for reviewing at the local level applications for mining in the Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA).

The meeting agenda and the Department of Environmental Protection’s “Proposed Coordinated Review of Mines” draft may be viewed online.