Download or read book Cleaning Up Abandoned Hardrock Mines in the West written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Abandoned Mines written by Anu K. Mittal and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oversight Hearing to Consider Whether Potential Liability Deters Abandoned Hardrock Mine Cleanup written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Barriers to the Cleanup of Abandoned Mine Sites written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Abandoned Mine Lands written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purposes of this report are 1) to shed light on abandoned mining sites and their impacts on public lands; 2) to highlight the accomplishments of the BLM, the Forest Service, and project partners in addressing abandoned mine lands (AML) problems; and 3) to describe the outlook for future AML reclamation efforts. Examples throughout the report offer insight into the environmental, health, safety, and economic effects often associated with these sites and illustrate the lasting and acid mine drainage leaching from the positive impacts of reclamation activities on formerly mined lands.
Download or read book Opportunities for Good Samaritan Cleanup of Hard Rock Abandoned Mine Lands written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hardrock Mining written by Robin M. Nazzaro and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mining Act of 1872 helped foster the development of the West by giving individuals exclusive rights to mine gold, silver, copper, and other hardrock minerals on federal lands. However, miners often abandoned mines, leaving behind structures, safety hazards, and contaminated land and water. Four federal agencies--the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM), the Forest Service, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)--fund the cleanup of some of these sites. To curb further growth in the number of abandoned hardrock mines on federal lands, in 1981 BLM began requiring mining operators to reclaim lands when their operations ceased. In 2001, BLM began requiring all operators to provide financial assurances to guarantee funding for reclamation costs if the operator did not complete the task as required. This testimony provides information on the (1) federal funds spent to clean up abandoned hardrock mine sites since 1998, (2) number of abandoned hardrock mine sites and hazards, and (3) value and coverage of financial assurances operators use to guarantee reclamation costs on BLM land. To address these issues, GAO, among other steps, asked 12 western states and Alaska to provide information on the number of abandoned mine sites and associated features in their states using a consistent definition.
Download or read book Opportunities for Good Samaritan Cleanup of Hard Rock Abandoned Mine Lands written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guiding Principles for Inventorying Inactive and Abandoned Hardrock Mining Sites written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cleanup at Abandoned Hardrock Mines written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historic Hardrock Mining written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Settled Mined Left Behind written by Trout Unlimited and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Abandoned Mines written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-12 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abandoned Mines: Information on the Number of Hardrock Mines, Cost of Cleanup, and Value of Financial Assurances
Download or read book Hardrock Mining written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book To Promote Remediation of Inactive and Abandoned Mines and for Other Purposes written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unclaimed Hardrock Mines written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Abandoned Mined Lands Innovative Solutions for Restoring the Environment Improving Safety and Creating Jobs written by Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources of the Committee on Natural Resources, U.S. House of Representatives and published by . This book was released on 2012-07-27 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cleaning up abandoned mines presents a significant challenge. The environmental legacy of abandoned mines really can't be underestimated. Even decades after closure, mines continue to leach lead, arsenic, mercury, and other heavy metals, into waterways. It is striking that in the Western United States the Environmental Protection Agency has estimated that about 40 percent of the headwaters of rivers and streams have been affected by discharges from abandoned hardrock mines, which threatens water supplies, increases the costs of water treatment, and limits fishing, recreation, and other activities. The size of the problem is daunting. The GAO says that we don't even know the exact number of abandoned mines across the country. The EPA and BLM estimate that there might be half-a-million abandoned mine locations.
