Well, I am thoroughly confused and now afraid all the work I did this summer was for not!!
Regarding the Notice of Work application, when I obtained my FMC and placer claim last fall I was given a lot of information, including but not limited to Information update #38 which as I'm sure you"re all aware basically stated N.O.W. applications and permits were not required for small hand mining operations. Recently I have been seeing a lot of chatter on mostly Facebook based mining groups that they changed it so you DO in fact need to file a N.O.W. and let the powers that be decide if you need permits or not, prior to doing any work on your claim.
I have searched around the Internets and cannot find anything definitive, I don't speak fluent "government" and they really seem to have an issue with yes and/or no answers. I saw the post from back in March I believe about it being rescinded and the ensuing banter about which part was or was not changed but it seemed to be a minor issue so I didn't look into any deeper at the time, kinda wish I had though...
I went ahead and submitted my S.O.W. report anyways, but am afraid it will all be rejected due to my not filing a N.O.W. because I was unaware of the changes. So tell me oh wise and wonderful GPEX'ers.......... Am I screwed?

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