Maryland Awarded $1.5 Million to Reclaim Dangerous Abandoned Mine Lands
U.S. Newswire › March 16, 2004
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WASHINGTON, March 16 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Interior Secretary Gale Norton today announced that the Interior Department's Office of Surface Mining has awarded Maryland's annual $1.5 million grant to help reclaim dangerous abandoned mine lands.
Maryland's grant will be used to reclaim dangerous high- priority Abandoned Mine Land (AML) sites. High-priority AML problems are those that threaten public health and safety and could cause substantial physical harm to persons or property, and to which people are currently exposed. They include clogged streams and stream lands, dangerous highwalls, impoundments, piles, embankments and slides, hazardous or explosive gases, hazardous water bodies, underground mine fires, surface burning, portals and vertical openings, subsidence and polluted drinking water.See the full content of this document
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Maryland Awarded $1.5 Million to Reclaim Dangerous Abandoned Mine Lands
The Office of Surface Mining (OSM) collects fees on current coal mining to fund reclamation of coal mine sites abandoned before 1977. Ho...
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