Abandoned mine lands: a mid-course review of the national reclamation program for coal. Final report
The Committee on Abandoned Mine Lands (CAML) analyzed how the U.S. Department of the Interior's (DOI) Office of Surface Mining (OSM) has and is administering the Title IV (Abandoned Mine Lands) Program of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977. In the course of focusing on the effectiveness of the program, the Committee evaluated the program not only in terms of its probable accomplishments over its fifteen-year life, between 1977 and 1992, when the program statutorily ends, but also the magnitude and nature of the AML problems remaining to be remedied in the post-1992 period, if Congress decides to extend it. The Committee made nineteen recommendations about how OSM could improve the AML program's current effectiveness as well as prepare to assist Congress in reaching a decision to terminate or extend the program. Over the fifteen-year life of the program, some $3.3 billion will have been spent.
- Research Organization:
- National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC (USA). Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Resources
- OSTI ID:
- 6676384
- Report Number(s):
- PB-87-144663/XAB
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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