Hydrologic considerations in federal coal leasing

Technical Report · Tue Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1980

OSTI ID:5836872

Van Haveren, B P; Koss, L C

The Bureau of Land Management is faced with the task of leasing hundreds of millions of tons of Federal coal over the next few years. New legislation and departmental and agency policy directives dictate that water-resources values will be carefully considered and accounted for before leasing can occur. BLM hydrologists, with assistance from hydrologists of the US Geological Survey, have designed and implemented a system for collecting and interpreting the necessary hydrologic data from previously ungaged basins, predicting the potential impacts of surface mining and associated leasing activities, and finally making a recommendation to the land manager relative to the water resource. The BLM initiated in 1975 a program to provide the land manager with an assessment of the mined-land rehabilitation potential and recommendations for reclamation methods and procedures for potential coal lease areas.

• Research Organization: Bureau of Land Management, Denver, CO (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5836872
• Report Number(s): PB-85-147312/XAB; R-33-80
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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