Bureau of Reclamation to Lead Interior Department’s Independent Review of Colorado Gold King Mine Incident

by Gary Kopycinski on August 20, 2015

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WASHINGTON –-(ENEWSPF)–August 20, 2015. The Department of the Interior has asked the Bureau of Reclamation to lead Interior’s independent assessment of factors that contributed to the August 5 Gold King Mine incident in Colorado. Interior was asked to conduct the assessment by the Environmental Protection Agency to review the cause of the incident and provide recommendations to prevent future incidents from occurring.