[RunItUpTheGut]

I looked through the website, and throughout the year many have been issued. Would these 36 have something to do with not meeting water standards? Why would they issue many throughout the year, and deny these 36?
http://minepermits.ky.gov/Pages/PermittingActions.aspx

http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf...enDocument

For the 36 individual permits that are the subject of the hearings, EPA has been working with KDOW to collect and evaluate data on toxic metals, cyanide, phenols, specific conductance, and current biological health of the waters that receive discharges from the mines in an effort to work through the issues identified in the objections.

Problem is, they were holding up A LOT of mining and jobs, as well as holding them in there back pockets. Im all for mining the right way. Good companies can do this. But you cant break small companies by telling them to spend more money cleaning up then they make mining, when there is no danger of harm to begin with.