Hi — this is from Susan Gordon at Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment:
Very complicated question. One of our many arguments with the Agencies charged with issuing permits is that they mostly rely on “self-reporting” from the industry providing technical data. There is some independent monitoring, but not enough. This is the location on the NM Environment Department’s Mining and Minerals Division that holds all the documents related to the Mt Taylor permits:
http://www.emnrd.state.nm.us/MMD/MARP/PermitPendMineRegEx.html