Aquatic Ecosystem Enhancement at Mountaintop Mining Sites Symposium
Welcome to this symposium which is part of the ongoing effort to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) regarding mountaintop mining and valley fills. The EIS is being prepared by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Office of Surface Mining, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in cooperation with the State of West Virginia. Aquatic Ecosystem Enhancement (AEE) at mountaintop mining sites is one of fourteen technical areas identified for study by the EIS Interagency Steering Committee. Three goals were identified in the AEE Work Plan: 1. Assess mining and reclamation practices to show how mining operations might be carried out in a way that minimizes adverse impacts to streams and other environmental resources and to local communities. Clarify economic and technical constraints and benefits. 2. Help citizens clarify choices by showing whether there are affordable ways to enhance existing mining, reclamation, mitigation processes and/or procedures. 3. Ide identify data needed to improve environmental evaluation and design of mining projects to protect the environment. Today’s symposium was proposed in the AEE Team Work Plans but coordinated planning for the event began September 15, 1999 when representatives from coal industry, environmental groups and government regulators met in Morgantown. The meeting participants worked with a facilitator from the Canaan Valley Institute to outline plans for the symposium. Several teams were formed to carry out the plans we outlined in the meeting.
- Research Organization:
- Federal Energy Technology Center (FETC), Morgantown, WV, and Pittsburgh, PA
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Fossil Energy (FE); U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Office of Surface Mining; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; State of West Virginia
- OSTI ID:
- 756770
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/NETL-2000/1119
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Aquatic Ecosystem Enhancement at Mountaintop Mining Sites Symposium, Charleston, West Virginia, January 12, 2000; Other Information: two copies of the CD are being sent to OSTI
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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