Lisbon Valley Copper Project Completes Federal Permitting
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Permitting Council Press Office (media@permitting.gov)
WASHINGTON (October 24, 2025) - The Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council (Permitting Council) is pleased to announce the completion of federal permitting for the Lisbon Valley Copper Project. Added to the Federal Permitting Dashboard as a Transparency project in April of this year, this minerals mining project will produce critically needed copper, used to power essential energy sources nationwide.
“I am ecstatic to see the sixth transparency project clear federal permitting just 6 months after gaining FAST-41 status,” said Emily Domenech, Permitting Council Executive Director. “The fact that this project was completed during the government shutdown shows the clear direction the President has given to federal agencies to move priority projects forward. I’d also like to extend my sincere gratitude to the team at the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management for keeping this project moving forward despite the lapse in appropriations.”
Located in San Juan County, Utah, the Lisbon Valley Mining Company, LLC (LVMC) currently mines copper ore from an existing open pit mine. LVMC submitted a Plan of Operations Modification to the Bureau of Land Management to expand open pit and beneficiation operations, and to initiate the extraction of copper through a method of in-situ recovery. Additions to the existing mine will include a new open pit, waste rock storage area, process ponds, and in-situ recovery wells on a proposed site of 5,430 acres. This project was posted to the Federal Permitting Dashboard in the interest of transparency in response to President Trump’s Executive Order 14241, Immediate Measures to Increase American Mineral Production. The Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management led federal permitting for this project. Learn more on the Federal Permitting Dashboard.
About the Permitting Council and FAST-41
Established in 2015 by Title 41 of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (FAST-41), the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council (Permitting Council) is a federal agency charged with improving the transparency and predictability of the federal environmental review and authorization process for certain critical infrastructure projects. The Permitting Council is composed of the Permitting Council Executive Director, who serves as the Council Chair; 13 federal agency Council members; and the Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget. The Office of the Executive Director coordinates federal environmental reviews and authorizations for projects that seek and qualify for FAST-41 coverage, which are in turn entitled to comprehensive permitting timetables and transparent, collaborative management of those timetables on the Federal Permitting Dashboard.
Learn more about the Permitting Council at permitting.gov.
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Last Updated: Friday, October 24, 2025