Alaska’s Ambler Road Decision Coming in Late 2023, Interior Says

The Biden administration will decide at the end of 2023 whether to allow the state of Alaska to build a 211-mile road to provide access to copper and critical minerals in Alaska’s Ambler Mining District, according to a legal status update filed Tuesday.

The Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management will publish a draft supplemental environmental impact statement for the Ambler Industrial Access Project by the second quarter of 2023 followed by a final statement and decision by the end of the year.

• The schedule is “preliminary,” and subject to “realignment of agency priorities,” the bureau said in the filing. ...