Gold Miners Failed To Exhaust Remedies Before Challenging CWA Permit Denial

Mealey's (May 23, 2023, 11:27 AM EDT) -- LAFAYETTE, La. — A group that claims to have found the largest ever gold discovery in Alaska’s Seward Peninsula failed to exhaust its administrative remedies before seeking judicial review of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ decision to deny its permit to dredge a waterway because the group filed a request for appeal with the Corps but also filed suit before the Corps reached its final decision, a Louisiana federal judge found in granting the Corps’ motion to dismiss the action....