After lackluster initial turnout, the Bureau of Land Management announced a second public hearing on allowing access to 177 million tons of coal for the Spring Creek Mine in Big Horn County.

According to the Wednesday announcement, the hearing will be held at 3 p.m. Sept. 10 in the city council chambers in Hardin. Hardin is the seat of Big Horn County and a change of location from where the first public hearing was held.

The Gazette reported earlier this week that the draft environmental assessment related to Navajo Transitional Energy Company’s lease-by application was posted on BLM’s website a day before the first public hearing held on the decision on Aug. 15 in Sheridan, Wyo. The environmental assessment on Montana’s largest coal mine was planned to be posted a week before that d

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