Interior Dept. receives over 2 mln comments on monument review
The issue of whether to preserve, shrink or revoke the protected status of two dozen U.S. national monuments drew more than 2 million public comments ahead of a report to be issued by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to President Donald Trump next month.
In April, Trump ordered the Interior Department to review 27 national monuments created since 1996, with an eye to rescinding or shrinking the size of some of them to increase development opportunities.
Zinke said on Tuesday that more than 1.2 million comments were received on the Regulations.gov website and thousands more were received via traditional mail. Environmental groups have said more than 2.5 million comments were submitted in total by Monday's deadline.
Over the last few weeks, Zinke visited national monuments under review in Utah, Maine and other places to meet with different stakeholders.
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