Does a cooperating agency relationship require the Forest Service and the cooperators to make decisions by consensus?
No. The Forest Service will collaborate with the cooperating agencies to arrange for collection of resource, environmental, social, economic, and institutional data and information, or to share data that is already assembled and available. Collaboration mandates methods, not outcomes. It brings diverse parties together to seek broadly acceptable solutions to what are usually complex problems. It does not imply that the parties will achieve consensus. The Forest Service remains the final decision maker on matters within its jurisdiction. How does the involvement of cooperating agencies affect the Forest Service responsible official’s role in the development of the Rosemont Copper Project Environmental Impact Statement? The Forest Service responsible official for the Rosemont Copper Project is the Forest Supervisor for the Coronado National Forest. Involvement of cooperating agencies makes the Forest Supervisor’s leadership of the Rosemont Copper Project environmental study process even
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