Download or read book Abandoned Mine Land Fund Reauthorization written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 (AML) program to promote the reclamation of sites mined and abandoned prior to the enactment of SMCRA. To finance reclamation of abandoned mine sites, the legislation established fees on coal production. These collections are divided into federal and state shares; subject to annual appropriation, AML funds are distributed annually to states with approved reclamation programs. Since the program's inception and through FY2004, collections have totaled $7.1 billion; appropriations from the fund have totaled $5.5 billion. The unappropriated balance in the fund approached $1.7 billion at the end of FY2004. As of the end of FY2004, roughly $1.1 billion of this sum is credited to the state share accounts, of which nearly $430 million alone is in Wyoming's account, because -- even though most of the sites awaiting cleanup are in the eastern part of the nation -- coal production has shifted westward. Consequently, the western states have been making significantly larger contributions to the fund in recent years. Authorization for collection of AML fees was scheduled to expire at the end of FY2004, and was extended nine months to the end of June 2005 by the Consolidated Appropriations Act for 2005 (P.L. 108-447) while Congress continued to debate changes to the program. A number of bills were introduced during the 108th Congress to reauthorize fee collections and make changes to the program that would address concerns about the mechanics of the program, the fee structure, and the unappropriated balances. A Bush Administration proposal (S. 2049/H.R. 3778) proposed to refund, through a significant increase in appropriations, unobligated state balances over a 10-year period. These balances would be returned to states and Indian tribes that had completed reclamation of their Priority 1 sites. These states would no longer receive grants from the AML fund itself, freeing up funds to be targeted to states with sites awaiting cleanup. House and Senate legislation -- H.R. 3796 and S. 2086 -- differed greatly in some respects from the Administration proposal. These bills would have maintained the distinction between state and federal shares and would have required that 50% of annual contributions be returned to states even if cleanup of priority abandoned mine sites had been completed. States and tribes would have been allowed to use the money for other purposes if cleanup of AML sites had been completed. The House, Senate, and Administration proposals were in agreement to end an allocation of a portion of AML collections to the Rural Abandoned Mine Land Program, a program that has received no appropriation since FY1995. The FY2006 budget submitted by the Administration is essentially the same as the plan proposed for FY2005 with the exception that the fees based on coal production would not be lowered in the FY2006 request. As of mid-March, no legislation had been introduced. This report will be updated as developments warrant.
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Download or read book Abandoned Mine Legislation written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book H R 3796 and H R 3778 to Amend the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 and Reauthorize and Reform the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Abandoned Mine Reclamation Program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Mining and Natural Resources and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Surface Mining written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Abandoned Mine Lands Program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Abandoned Mine Reclamation Program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Mining and Natural Resources and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Abandoned Mine Land Program written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Abandoned Mined Land Reclamation Needs of the Pennsylvania Anthracite Fields written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Abandoned Mine Land Program Us Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement Regulation Osm 2018 Edition written by The Law The Law Library and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abandoned Mine Land Program (US Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement Regulation) (OSM) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the Abandoned Mine Land Program (US Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement Regulation) (OSM) (2018 Edition). Updated as of May 29, 2018 We, the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM), are revising our regulations for the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund (Fund) and the Abandoned Mine Land (AML) program. This rule revises our regulations to be consistent with the Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006, Public Law 109-432, signed into law on December 20, 2006, which included the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act Amendments of 2006 (the 2006 amendments). The rule reflects the extension of our statutory authority to collect reclamation fees for an additional fourteen years and to reduce the fee rates. The rule also updates the regulations in light of the statutory amendments that change the activities State and Tribal reclamation programs may perform under the AML program, funding for reclamation grants to States and Indian tribes, and transfers to the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) Combined Benefit Fund (CBF), the UMWA 1992 Benefit Plan, and the UMWA Multiemployer Health Benefit Plan (1993 Benefit Plan). Finally, our rule extends incentives reauthorized by the 2006 amendments pertaining to the remining of certain lands and water adversely affected by past mining. This book contains: - The complete text of the Abandoned Mine Land Program (US Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement Regulation) (OSM) (2018 Edition) - A table of contents with the page number of each section
Download or read book Surface Mining written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Management and Financial Deficiencies in Federal Mine Reclamation Programs written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Government Efficiency, Federalism, and the District of Columbia and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Surface Mining written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Department of the Interior's Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement's (OSMRE) 1988 reconciliation of the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund, commonly known as the Abandoned Mine Land (AML) Fund. GAO found that OSMRE: (1) established the AML Grants Tracking System in 1986 to record federal and state share contributions toward AML Fund grants; (2) did not perform a complete reconciliation of the AML Fund, since it did not correct past tracking system errors in determining state share balances; (3) did not correct key data errors in its formulas for calculating state grant allocations; (4) limited its fund reconciliation to agreement with its official accounting records' overall fund balance, collections, and grant data; and (5) could not accurately use its tracking system to determine federal and state share percentages of grant charges. GAO also found that OSMRE did not have adequate internal controls over its grant allocation process, since it: (1) could not substantiate the federal share of the state reclamation program grants listed in its tracking system; and (2) lacked policies and procedures for recreating and verifying its past allocation decisions. GAO believes that the incorrect state share balances will affect not only the current-year grant allocations, but also future-year allocations.
Download or read book Implementation of Program Policies for Federal State and Indian Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Under Title IV of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 written by United States. Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement. Abandoned Mine Lands Staff and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Abandoned Mine Land Program 1977 1987 written by Association of Abandoned Mined Land Programs and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
