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Contra Costa officials respond to missing file

CALIFORNIA – As reported by the Contra Costa Times: "When Contra Costa County officials received a long-awaited draft last week of the final environmental statement for a proposed American Indian casino in North Richmond, what they found stunned them.

"Or rather, what they couldn't find: any sign of the 60-plus pages of comments they filed 10 months ago with the federal Department of Interior, raising concerns about a project that would plant a 225,000-square-foot casino on 30 acres along the Richmond Parkway.

"' They said they didn't have them,' said Sara Hoffman, the assistant county administrator who called federal officials this week to complain.

"Hoffman said a federal official told her the agency didn't know what happened and would pull back the preliminary final environmental impact statement, which lays out the potential impacts of the casino and ways to mitigate them.

"The foul-up will delay the process for the Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians and the community alike by about two months, said John Rydzik, the regional environmental scientist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Sacramento…"

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