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Natural Resources: Issues Surrounding the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Sept. 21, 1979
Report No. CED-79-83
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Summary:

It is the intent of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 that the States be responsible for regulating surface coal mining and undertaking reclamation of abandoned mines. However, the States have found it difficult to meet the law's timetable for developing programs, because the Department of the Interior was late in issuing program regulations.

The coal operators and the States claim that the Interior regulations are too stringent, and are designed to take away regulatory responsibility from the States. Interior believes its regulations allow the States and coal operators flexibility while assuring that the standards are achieved and uniformly maintained. An Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund was established under the act to be financed from fees levied on current coal mining operators. About half of the more than $200 million collected from the coal operators for this fund are currently idle, waiting for State and surface mining and regulatory and reclamation programs to be developed and approved by Interior.

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