LETTERS-Continued Matisoff, Nancy, environmental associate, the Izaak Walton League McBride, Don, director, Tennessee Valley Authority, to Hon. Patsy T. Morton, Hon. Rogers C. B., Secretary of the Interior, to Hon. Carl Overton, J. Allen, Jr., president, American Mining Congress, to Hon. Pfister, E. P., Billings, Mont., to Representative Patsy Mink, dated Phelps, Edwin R., president and chief executive officer, Peabody Thornton, Philip, deputy chief, Forest Service, Department of Agri- Page 971 1207 1684 1689 735 1487 1555 1477 1643 1048 1549 841 1681 Udall, Hon. Morris K., to Dr. W. H. Dresher, dean, College of Mines, Whitaker, Hon. John C., Under Secretary of the Interior, to Hon. Additional information: Acres of national forest system lands involved in and with potential Answers supplied by Mr. Whitaker to questions propounded by California State Concurrent Resolution No. 89, resolution chapter 1647 819 947 1544 841 815 1554 1575 777 909 CORA board resolution adopted Feb. 2, 1973 CORA statement of concern adopted March 15, 1972 1333 1333 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 828 1362 1573 Comparison table of H.R. 3, S. 923, the administration bill, and Additional information-Continued Growth in the taconite industry in Minnesota following passage of the Major weaknesses of the administration bill, H.R. 4863, submitted by Page 1042 835 Male employment and unemployment and coal industry employment in Kentucky (table).... 1156 National Catholic Rural Life Conference-policy resolution, dated 1642 National Audubon Society, additions to the record presented by Comments on provisions of H.R. 5988, H.R. 5651, and H.R. 3 Approximate reclamation costs per ton of bituminous coal Navajo power project and environmental protection plans (plus tables, 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.. 962 963 1010 1381 1057 951 1694 States having State surface mining statutes which include sand and Strip Mining Examined, an article by Robert Norris, from the Lone Text of taped slide show, submitted by Congressman Hechler.. 915 1034 794 1143 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 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, 3 4 SHORT TITLE SECTION 1. This Act may be cited as the "Coal Mine 5 Surface Area Protection Act of 1973". 6 7 8 9 10 11 I 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; and |