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LETTERS-Continued

Matisoff, Nancy, environmental associate, the Izaak Walton League
of America, to Ms. Patsy T. Mink, Chairman, Mines and Mining
Subcommittee, dated May 4, 1973-

McBride, Don, director, Tennessee Valley Authority, to Hon. Patsy T.
Mink, and Hon. Morris K. Udall, dated May 15, 1973..
McCracken, Ralph J., chairman of surface mining, Council for Agri-
cultural Science and Technology, Raleigh, N.C., to Hon. Morris K.
Udall, and Hon. Patsy Mink, dated May 28, 1973 (plus state-
ment)..
McNeely, John W., Dayton, Ohio, to Hon. Patsy T. Mink, Chairman,
Subcommittee on Mines and Mining, dated June 10, 1973 (plus
comparison of blasting regulations applicable to Ohio and Penn-
sylvania strip mines).

Morton, Hon. Rogers C. B., Secretary of the Interior, to Hon. Carl
Albert, Speaker of the House, dated Feb. 15, 1973 (executive
communication and report).

Overton, J. Allen, Jr., president, American Mining Congress, to Hon.
Patsy T. Mink, dated May 31, 1973---

Pfister, E. P., Billings, Mont., to Representative Patsy Mink, dated
April 18, 1973 plus comments on H.R. 3.----

Phelps, Edwin R., president and chief executive officer, Peabody
Coal Co., to Hon. Morris K. Udall, dated May 31, 1973_.
Reagan, Hon. Ronald, Governor, State of California, to Hon. James A.
Haley, chairman, House Interior Committee, dated May 3, 1973...
Rechter, Richard P., National Limestone Institute Inc., to Hon.
Henry M. Jackson, dated April 2, 1973...
Strautman, W. H., vice president, Southwestern Portland Cement
Co., Fairborn, Ohio, to Hon. Charles W. Whalen, Jr., dated April 9,
1973__

Thornton, Philip, deputy chief, Forest Service, Department of Agri-
culture, to Hon. James A. Haley, dated April 19, 1973 (report).
Towell, William E., executive vice president, American Forestry
Association, to Hon. Patsy T. Mink, and Hon. Morris K. Udall,
dated April 20, 1973.

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Udall, Hon. Morris K., to Dr. W. H. Dresher, dean, College of Mines,
University of Arizona, dated May 3, 1973-

Whitaker, Hon. John C., Under Secretary of the Interior, to Hon.
James A. Haley, dated June 13, 1973.
Williamson, Monroe W., chairman, Strip Mining Committee and
director, Conservation Council of Virginia, to Congresswoman
Mink and Congressman Udall, dated April 30, 1973 (plus insert)...
Wright, Arthur T., staff consultant, the Wilderness Society, to Hon.
Patsy T. Mink, and Hon. Morris K. Udall, dated April 24, 1973
(plus statement).

Additional information:

Acres of national forest system lands involved in and with potential
for mining by surface methods, by regions (table submitted in report
of Forest Service) -

Answers supplied by Mr. Whitaker to questions propounded by
Mr. Melcher..

California State Concurrent Resolution No. 89, resolution chapter
189 filed October 8, 1971 (submitted by David D. Davis) -
Chart: Model illustrating that reclamation and coal extraction are
parts of the same process in the use of natural resources__
Comparison of underground and strip mining submitted by Congress-
man Hechler..

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CORA board resolution adopted Feb. 2, 1973

CORA statement of concern adopted March 15, 1972

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Four from Montana to talk of coal, from the Missoulian, dated May 13, 1973, submitted by Melvin Morris...

Diagram: "If Boone County were a pie how much would the strippers eat?", presented by Eugene J. Harner, Madison, W. Va..

Cost data supplied to the committee by Mr. Whitaker in answer to question by Congressman Seiberling

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Comparison table of H.R. 3, S. 923, the administration bill, and
H.R. 5988, Mr. Saylor's bill, supplied by Mr. Preate_.

Additional information-Continued

Growth in the taconite industry in Minnesota following passage of the
taconite amendment in 1964 (table, addition to statement of
Robert J. Babich)___

Major weaknesses of the administration bill, H.R. 4863, submitted by
Congressman Hechler...

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Male employment and unemployment and coal industry employment in Kentucky (table)....

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National Catholic Rural Life Conference-policy resolution, dated
June 21, 1972___

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National Audubon Society, additions to the record presented by
John L. Franson:

Comments on provisions of H.R. 5988, H.R. 5651, and H.R. 3
(table)...

Approximate reclamation costs per ton of bituminous coal
mined by stripping (table)---

Navajo power project and environmental protection plans (plus tables,
maps, and charts).

Poem, "Mountain Man" dedicated to Harry Caudill and Jean Ritchie, presented by William H. Cohen of Hazard, Ky..

Production of bituminous coal and lignite in the United States by States underground, strip and auger mining, 1966-71, submitted with Mr. Hagen's statement (table).

Review of Dobson paper for the Appalachian Strip Mining Information Service titled British Limit Strip Mining, spend $4,000 an acre on reclamation, submitted by Monroe W. Williamson..

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States having State surface mining statutes which include sand and
gravel (tonnage from U.S. Bureau of Mines) (table).......
States having extensive local or county control of sand and gravel
extraction but no State control and/or States where State control is
under consideration (tonnage from U.S. Bureau of Mines) (table). 1695
Statistics on deep and strippable coal resources and reserves compiled
by John McCormick of the Environmental Policy Center, supplied
by Ms. Dunlap..

Strip Mining Examined, an article by Robert Norris, from the Lone
Star Chapter of the Sierra Club, dated December 1972, submitted by
Mr. Steelman__

Text of taped slide show, submitted by Congressman Hechler..
United Christian Missionary Society, resolution of board of trustees - -

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H.R. 3, H.R. 181, H.R. 726, H.R. 1000, H.R. 1411, H.R. 1603, H.R. 2380, H.R. 2425, H.R. 2861, H.R. 3518, H.R. 4863, H.R. 5651, H.R. 5988, H.R. 6603, H.R. 6709

REGULATION OF SURFACE MINING

MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1973

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE ENVIRONMENT AND
SUBCOMMITTEE ON MINES AND MINING

OF THE COMMITTEE ON INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS,

Washington, D.C. The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 9:55 a.m., in room 1324, Longworth House Office Building, Hon. Morris K. Udall (Chairman of the Subcommittee), presiding.

Mr. UDALL. The Subcommittee on Environment and Subcommittee on Mines and Mining will be in order for the consideration of the various surface mining bills which are before us.

Under the ruling of the Chairman of the Full Committee we will be having joint hearings on all of these proposals.

They include the list before each member beginning with H.R. 3 by our colleague, Representative Hays, and ending two pages later by our colleague, Mr. Foley, from Washington.

Without objection copies of the bills and the report of the Secretary of the Interior dated February 15, 1973, relating to this problem, transmitting the administration's proposal, will be made a part of the record at this point.

[Copies of bills follow: H.R. 3, H.R. 181, H.R. 726, H.R. 1000, H.R.1603, H.R. 1411, H.R. 2380, H.R. 2425, H.R. 2861, H.R. 3518, H.R. 4863, H.R. 5651, H.R. 5988, H.R. 6603, H.R. 6709 and report follow:]

93D CONGRESS 1ST SESSION

H. R. 3

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

JANUARY 3, 1973

Mr. HAYS (for himself, Mr. MELCHER, and Mr. MORGAN) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs

A BILL

To provide for the regulation of surface coal mining for the conservation, acquisition, and reclamation of surface areas affected by coal mining activities, and for other purposes.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa

2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

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SHORT TITLE

SECTION 1. This Act may be cited as the "Coal Mine

5 Surface Area Protection Act of 1973".

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FINDINGS AND PURPOSE

SEC. 2. (a) The Congress finds and declares

(1) that there are coal mining operations on public

and private lands in the Nation which adversely affect

the environmental and natural and manmade resources;

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