I urge you to initiate a Clean Water Act 404(c) process in Bristol Bay immediately. Alaska Natives, sportsmen, commercial fishermen, churches, and conservation organizations deserve a public and science-based process to determine if the Pebble Partnership's plans to build the biggest open pit mine in North America will harm one of our nation's greatest fisheries.
Bristol Bay demonstrates that some places should be left free of industrial development because their natural resource values, and the benefits they provide to people, outstrip short-term development values.
Please use your influence to ensure that the EPA uses its authority under the Clean Water Act to stop this ill-conceived project immediately.