Implementation of SMCRA: Oversight Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Mining and Natural Resources of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, Second Session, on Implementation of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, Hearing Held in Washington, DC, February 20, 1992, Volume 4 |
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Abandoned Mine Land acid mine drainage administrative agency approved audit Beginning and End Beginning Date believe BEN BLAZ BEN NIGHTHORSE CAMPBELL BILL RICHARDSON blast cessation orders Chairman Rahall citizen complaints coal mining COLORADO Committee on Interior CONGRES CONGRESS THE LIBRARY CRAIG THOMAS damage DON YOUNG End Date enforcement action environmental funding Harry Snyder Honorable Nick implementation Inspector Insular Affairs Interior and Insular issue Kentucky Land Reclamation LARRY LAROCCO LIBRARY OF CONGRESS McCutchanville Mining and Natural mining operations Natural Resources Office of Surface OSM's OSMRE Director Snyder oversight ownership and control PETER HOAGLAND primacy problems procedures proposed rule protection question RARY Reclamation Act Reclamation and Enforcement recommendations regulations regulatory program request requirements RESS RICHARD MELTZER rulemaking SMCRA SOCM Subcommittee on Mining Surface Mining Control Surface Mining Reclamation ten-day notice tion Washington WAYNE ALLARD West Virginia
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Page 319 - Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves therefore are its only safe depositories. And to render even them safe, their minds must be improved to a certain degree.
Page 177 - Reclamation, Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Program, Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement" (OSM) . As requested, I am providing information on the issues you raised about the audit report.
Page 62 - ... because of the diversity in terrain, climate, biologic, chemical, and other physical conditions in areas subject to mining operations, the primary governmental responsibility for developing, authorizing, issuing, and enforcing regulations for surface mining and reclamation operations subject to this chapter should rest with the States...
Page 82 - States which will achieve comparable results in protecting, conserving, and improving the usefulness of natural resources, to the end that the most desirable conduct of mining and related operations may be universally facilitated.
Page 82 - The purposes of this compact are to: 1. Advance the protection and restoration of land, water and other resources affected by mining. 2. Assist in the reduction or elimination or counteracting of pollution or deterioration of land, water and air attributable to mining. 3. Encourage, with due recognition of relevant regional, physical, and other differences, programs in each of the party states...
Page 13 - The request, combined with $1 million in anticipated carryover funds, will allow for continued assistance to small operators In meeting data requirements for new mining permits. Mr. Chairman, I appreciate the opportunity to appear before you today to discuss the Office of Surface Mining's fiscal Year 1993 Budget.
Page 130 - And though a tenth remain in it, it will be burned again, like a terebinth or an oak, whose stump remains standing when it is felled.
Page 105 - This concludes our prepared statement. I will be happy to respond to any questions the Subcommittee may have. Thank you. Mr.
Page 87 - States the maximum administrative discretion possible. Intrusive Federal oversight of State administration is neither necessary nor desirable. (d) When undertaking to formulate and implement policies that have federalism implications, agencies shall: (1) encourage States to develop their own policies to achieve program objectives and to work with appropriate officials in other States; (2) where possible, defer to the States to establish standards...
Page 119 - ... minimize the disturbances to the prevailing hydrologic balance at the mine-site and in associated offsite areas and to the quality and quantity of water in surface and ground water systems both during and after surface coal mining operations and during reclamation...