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permits BICKMORE - U.S. Rep. Nick Rahall is asking the Army Corps of Engineers to reissue federal permits for a CONSOL Energy surfacemining complex before some 500 employees lose their jobs. U.S. District Judge Robert C. Chambers recently... Published: Friday, December 18, 2009 Words: 640
requirements relating to the Environmental Protection Advisory Council, the West Virginia Administrative Procedures Act, [the SurfaceMining Control and Reclamation Act] and perhaps other provisions of State law," Harvey wrote. Harvey... Published: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 Words: 567
request," Rahall told the Appropriations Committee. The abandoned mine reclamation program was originally established in the SurfaceMining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977. Financed by a tax on all mined coal, each year grants are... Published: Friday, March 17, 2000 Words: 327
a West Virginia University law professor. "OSM's problem is not a shortage of time, but a shortage of will." Under the 1977 SurfaceMining Control and Reclamation Act, states are allowed to regulate their own mining industries. But... Published: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 Words: 564
to work with states to address what remains to be done," Owens said. In 1977, Congress created the AML program when it passed the SurfaceMining Control and Reclamation Act. Financed by a tax on coal production, the program provides... Published: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 Words: 614
intervention will force OSM to perform its nondiscretionary duties under SMCRA," Barrett wrote. Under SMCRA, or the federal SurfaceMining Control and Reclamation Act, states may police their own coal industries. OSM is required by... Published: Thursday, January 03, 2002 Words: 581
Citizens Coal Council, a coalition of citizen groups from the nation's coalfields. When it passed the federal SurfaceMining and Reclamation Act in 1977, lawmakers created the program to clean up thousands of coal mines that operated... Published: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 Words: 775
general welfare and property from" the dangers of abandoned mine sites. In 1994, Robert Uram, then-director of the U.S. Office of SurfaceMining, shifted OSM policy to broaden the agency's definition of "general welfare." Rahall said... Published: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 Words: 579
solar, there will continue to be a demand for Southern West Virginia coal." Rahall, D-W.Va., went on to say that valley fills associated with mountaintop removal mining are legal under the SurfaceMining Control and Reclamation Act... Published: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 Words: 612
that is financed by AML fund interest. Congress created the Abandoned Mine Land, or AML, program in 1977, when it passed the SurfaceMining Control and Reclamation Act. Under the program, coal operators pay 35 cents per ton of surface-mined... Published: Thursday, September 30, 2004 Words: 453
