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The Abandoned Mine Land Fund: Grants Distribution and Issues (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date March 26, 1997
Report Number 97-401
Report Type Report
Authors Robert L. Bamberger, Environment and Natural Resources Policy Division
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
Summary:

The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (SMCRA, P.L. 95-87), enacted in 1977, established reclamation standards for all coal surface mining operations, and for the surface effects of underground mining. It also established the Abandoned Mine Land program to promote the reclamation of sites mined and abandoned prior to the enactment of SMCRA.