The submission, which includes the company's plans to manage and minimize environmental impacts of the project, will form the core of the material reviewed by three-member panel assessing the project.

 

The company was ordered to rewrite the environmental impact statement earlier this year after the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency concluded a draft was riddled with gaps, deficiencies and missing information.

 

The proposed mine was approved by the B.C. government, but then rejected after a federal government environmental review in 2010.

 

Ottawa agreed last year to hear a second environmental review after Taseko reworked the project.

 

The company said it would spend an extra $300 million to address concerns and promised to save Fish Lake, which band members say is culturally significant to them. Taseko's original proposal involved draining Fish Lake and using it for a tailings pond.