This website is continually being developed. The site provides information which is most frequently requested from the Office of Surface Mining and compiles with the requirements of the new Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments of 1996. Over the past few months we have made many substantive and format changes to the pages in direct response from user feedback. The pages you are using now are the result of this ongoing development and we hope users will continue to provide feedback to make the pages more useful. Our goal is to use this web site as a principal mode of communication with the public, with the flow of information going in both directions. If you don't find the information you need, you need other formats, or if you like what's presented, please let us know.
This site is optimized for use with Internet Explorer 5 and Netscape 4. For example, we now use java script for various functions and some 'button' activated Java Script features will not work when using an older browser. This is a very dynamic technical climate, so if you experience browser problems, or know of solutions that would make improvements to these pages, send us message.
Chuck Meyers, webmaster
