Regulation of Strip Mining: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, First Session, on H.R. 60 and Related Bills ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1972 - 890 pages |
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... problems . H.R. 444 and H.R. 4556 avoid the windfall problem by requiring that the land be in public ownership or by attaching a lien to the land until the Federal funds are repaid . H.R. 4556 provides up to 90 percent Federal funding ...
... problems . H.R. 444 and H.R. 4556 avoid the windfall problem by requiring that the land be in public ownership or by attaching a lien to the land until the Federal funds are repaid . H.R. 4556 provides up to 90 percent Federal funding ...
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... problems associated with underground mines in some areas . In varying degrees State legislatures and mining companies have responded to the problem with the result that much land is being reclaimed by the mining industry as a part of ...
... problems associated with underground mines in some areas . In varying degrees State legislatures and mining companies have responded to the problem with the result that much land is being reclaimed by the mining industry as a part of ...
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... problem has become much more acute because of new technology ; acres are being chewed up with astonishing speed . This means that the extent of the problem has grown rapidly . But there is also evi- dence that this technologically aided ...
... problem has become much more acute because of new technology ; acres are being chewed up with astonishing speed . This means that the extent of the problem has grown rapidly . But there is also evi- dence that this technologically aided ...
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... problem because often times the public knows far less about the details of a problem than perhaps they should in making up their minds . It might be well to state for the record something that is obvious to most of us who are fairly ...
... problem because often times the public knows far less about the details of a problem than perhaps they should in making up their minds . It might be well to state for the record something that is obvious to most of us who are fairly ...
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... problem , although freqeuntly they do not cure it altogether . In strip mines , the shale directly above the seam of coal is pulverized by the process of removal and cast on the spoil pile where it is exposed to air and rain water ...
... problem , although freqeuntly they do not cure it altogether . In strip mines , the shale directly above the seam of coal is pulverized by the process of removal and cast on the spoil pile where it is exposed to air and rain water ...
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acid acid mine drainage acres Administrator adverse agency Appalachian application approved ASPINALL bill bituminous coal Black Mesa bond Bureau of Mines Chairman coal mining Commission committee Congress conservation cost County damage deep mining Department deposit Director district economic Ed Edmondson EDMONDSON effective enactment enforcement environment environmental Federal Government Federal regulations filed gentleman going guidelines health and safety hearing HECHLER Interior issued Kentucky land reclamation legislation license lignite McCLURE ment mined areas mined land minerals mining and reclamation mining industry mining of coal mountain North Dakota Ohio orphan lands Pennsylvania percent permit present problem production prohibit proposed protection question reclamation plan restoration Secretary short tons SKUBITZ soil standards statement strip mining operations stripmining subcommittee submit surface mining surface mining operations Thank tion underground mining United violation water pollution West Virginia
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